Business Analysis Bootcamp
Course Summary
The Business Analysis Bootcamp training course explores the foundational aspects of Business Analysis (BA) from the following five courses:
- Introduction to BA Scope and Elicitation
- Analyzing Requirements
- Supporting and Managing Requirements
- BA Planning and Estimating
This customized course takes the best content from our 9-day program and delivers it in a rapid-fire Bootcamp approach.
The course begins with an introduction to BA including defining scope and elicitation objectives. Students will learn a high-level understanding of requirements, business rules, processes, data, interfaces, and scope. Next, analyzing and managing requirements is reviewed including learning when and why to model requirements. Finally, students will analyze planning and estimating objectives and understand what goes into a business requirements document.
Purpose | Learn the foundational aspects of Business Analysis. |
Audience | Organizations that need to kick-start their BA program or rapidly train a group of BAs to be work-ready. |
Role | Business Analyst |
Skill Level | Introduction |
Style | Workshops |
Duration | 5 Days |
Related Technologies | Project Management |
Productivity Objectives
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of the BA
- Compare the BA role to other project roles
- Describe how business analysis works in both IT and business environments
- Identify the benefits and value of BA
- Discuss the competencies of a BA
- Describe the high-level process of BA
- Discuss the general expectations of the BA role
What You'll Learn:
In the Business Analysis Bootcamp training course, you'll learn:
- Introduction to Business Analysis
- Key business analysis terms, activities, and general overview of business analysis
- Key business analysis activities, deliverables, and techniques
- The breadth of business analysis from the business to IT projects
- Benefits of Business Analysis
- Barriers to Business Analysis
- BA Competencies
- BA Career Path
- Requirements defined and their classifications
- Methodologies/approaches to business analysis
- Comparing business analysis to other roles and where they overlap
- A typical day in the life of a business analyst
- Trends in business analysis
- Overview of the IIBA BABOK and how it relates to Business Analysis and your training
- A high-level understanding of requirements, business rules, process, data, interfaces, interactions, scope
- Business Analysis Scope and Elicitation Objectives
- Understand a recap from the Introduction to Business Analysis course
- Understand what requirements are and why they are needed for solutions
- Understand and practice Business Analysis scope modeling
- Learn and practice several elicitation techniques
- Understand the process for elicitation
- Learn what techniques work better in certain situations
- Understand team dynamics and how it plays a part in elicitation
- Business Analysis Scope and Elicitation Course Topics
- Understanding the differences between project and product scope
- The process of solution scoping
- Several techniques and models for solution scoping
- Breaking down the scope to drive elicitation efforts
- The process of elicitation
- Elicitation in different approaches - Agile, Waterfall, Incremental
- The role team dynamics play in elicitation
- Learn 17 elicitation techniques
- Practice elicitation techniques and understand how they support future business analysis efforts
- When to use each technique and why
- Analyzing Requirements Objectives
- Understand the importance of modeling and analyzing requirements
- Understand and practice different types of modeling including process, data, interface, and interaction
- Learn when and why to model
- Understand impacts to modeling based on stakeholder preferences and needs
- Understand progressive elaboration of requirements and what the right level of detail to model is
- Analyzing Requirements Course Topics
- Process modeling (Process Maps, Swim Lanes)
- Data modeling (Data Matrix, ERD, Class Diagram, Data Mining)
- Interface modeling (Prototypes, Mockups, Wireframes, Storyboards)
- Interaction modeling (Use Cases, SIPOC)
- Decision modeling (Decision Trees, Weighted Ranking)
- Business rules analysis in modeling
- Tying models back to scope modeling
- Levels of detail and abstraction in modeling
- Modeling based on approach (Agile, Waterfall, Incremental)
- Business Analysis Supporting and Managing Requirements Objectives
- Understand the different ways to document requirements
- Practice writing well-formed requirements
- Understand how to package requirements for review by stakeholders
- Understand and practice different methods of requirements prioritization (Waterfall, Incremental, Agile)
- Understand and practice requirements traceability
- Understand the Business Analyst role in design
- Understand the Business Analyst role in testing
- Understand the Business Analyst role in user acceptance testing
- Understand the role of the Business Analyst during the implementation of the solution
- Understand the role of the Business Analyst after the solution has been implemented
- Business Analysis Supporting and Managing Requirements Course Topics
- How to package your requirements effectively
- Understanding your stakeholder preferences in packaging requirements
- How to present different components of the requirements
- How to write well-formed requirements
- How to correct requirements
- Developing a requirements checklist
- What goes into a business requirements document
- What goes into a system requirements specification
- Creating a traceability matrix
- Tracing requirements to business goals and objectives, test, design, scope
- The Business Analyst role in testing
- The Business Analyst role in user acceptance testing
- The Business Analyst role in design
- The Business Analyst role in implementation
- The Business Analyst role after implementation
- How to manage requirements change
- Business Analysis Planning and Estimating Objectives
- Understand project vs. product (solution) scope
- Document product (solution) scope in support of planning and estimating your Business Analysis work
- Identify, analyze and manage stakeholders
- Understand common Business Analysis approaches
- Learn different approaches to estimating your Business Analysis work
- Learn to communicate and manage your requirements work plan
- Business Analysis Planning and Estimating Course Topics
- Project vs. product (solution) scope
- Documenting product (solution) scope as the input to your planning efforts
- Key planning concepts for analyzing Business Analysis work
- Understanding gap analysis
- How to identify, analyze and manage stakeholders using various stakeholder analysis models (classic
- RACI, Onion, and others to modern - empathy maps
- Predictive (Waterfall, incremental) and Adaptive (Agile) approaches to planning Business Analysis work
- How to plan the work and work the plan
- How to develop the approach to your plan
- Understanding the complexity and impacts of your plan
- How to choose techniques for your plan
- How to choose activities and deliverables for your plan
- How to communicate your plan
- Understand various estimation techniques
- Review examples of requirements work plans
- Understand how the requirements work plan fits into the overall project plan
- Understand additional change management needs of the plan
“I appreciated the instructor's technique of writing live code examples rather than using fixed slide decks to present the material.”
VMware
Dive in and learn more
When transforming your workforce, it's important to have expert advice and tailored solutions. We can help. Tell us your unique needs and we'll explore ways to address them.
Let's chat
Thank you!