Business Analysis Two

Requirements Elicitation, Analysis and Management

This course includes The Outset Advantage

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Course Length:  4 Days

Course No.  TMA32

CDU & PDU:  32

Materials Included:
 

• IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide)

• Outset Group Seminar Manual

• A set of templates to execute the core Knowledge Areas represented in the BABOK Guide

 

Who should attend?

 

• Business Analysts at all levels

• Technical Leads, Project Managers, and others who play the role of BA in eliciting, analyzing, or managing requirements

• Management personnel who supervise or govern requirements processes

Seminar Content & Approach

 

This course is for individuals who create or manage Requirements on a project.  Following the IIBA model, we teach the fundamentals of 1) Working with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and prioritize their requirements, 2) Writing functional and non-functional requirements that are clear, concise, consistent, correct, and complete, and 3) Managing requirements to ensure that they are
current, accessible, testable, and easy to work with.  We also take a step back, and demonstrate how to organize all these activities into a coherent BA Plan.

 

Like all Outset Group seminars, there is an emphasis on hands on learning.  We use role play, scripted dialogue, games, and team exercise to help students get the most useful and memorable training possible.

 

As we teach the methods and tools that produce effective requirements, we also teach the interpersonal skills a BA uses to execute those methods and tools.  Throughout the seminar we teach listening, assertiveness, group facilitation, team leadership, and meeting management, and help students adopt new skills in these areas.

 

Students return to work with:
 

• The ability to write clear, concise, correct, consistent, and complete requirements.
   

• The ability to structure a business analysis effort for either a “waterfall” or “agile” approach, and to represent it in a concise plan.
   

• The ability to identify stakeholders and act as a liaison among various groups.
   

• The ability to ask the right questions, of the right person, at the right time...and document the answers.
   

• The skill to use elicitation tools such as interviews and surveys.

Students return to work with:
 

• The ability to write requirements that express business and stakeholder needs in ways that a development team can execute and a quality team can validate.
   

• The ability to collaborate with project management to ensure that requirements are effectively managed across the entire project life cycle.
   

• The ability to keep business objectives in the forefront, even in a highly technical environment.

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