Business Analysis – Online | Continuing Studies

• Core Competencies for the Business Analyst
• Model and Document Your Project Requirements
• Collaborate with Stakeholders to Elicit Requirements
• Plan, Manage and Communicate Requirements

Course Details

This program is composed of four courses and delivered on-demand for self-paced training.

Core Competencies of the Business Analyst
This course provides a well-rounded introduction to the role of the business analyst. It provides a high-level overview of all of the BABOK® Guide knowledge areas.

Course Outline
Module 1: Core Concepts: Business Analysis Roles and Responsibilities
Module 2: Life Cycles
Module 3: Enterprise Analysis
Module 4: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Module 5: Requirements Management and Communication
Module 6: Elicitation
Module 7: Requirements Analysis
Module 8: Solution Assessment and Validation

Model and Document Your Requirements
This course outlines how the business analyst defines and communicates project requirements and introduces a variety of modeling and documentation techniques with real-world applications. The Requirements Analysis knowledge area is explored in depth.

Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Requirements Analysis
Module 2: Context Diagrams
Module 3: Use Case Diagrams
Module 4: Use Case Descriptions
Module 5: Workflow Models
Module 6: Activity Diagrams
Module 7: User Interface Requirements: Usability
Module 8: User Interface Requirements: Navigation and Information
Module 9: Data Modeling
Module 10: Class Models
Module 11: Business Rules
Module 12: Non-Functional Requirements

Collaborate with Stakeholders to Elicit Requirements
This course outlines the core functions of the business analyst in the context of elicitation and presents a variety of techniques for performing elicitation, along with ways to overcome typical challenges associated with those techniques.

Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Elicitation
Module 2: Elicitation Context
Module 3: Document Analysis
Module 4: Observation
Module 5: Interviewing
Module 6: Brainstorming
Module 7: Requirements Workshop
Module 8: Prototyping
Module 9: Surveys
Module 10: Focus Groups
Module 11: Interface Analysis
Module 12: Reverse Engineering
Module 13: Quality Function Deployment
Module 14: Selecting Elicitation Techniques

Plan, Manage, and Communicate Requirements
This course examines the role of the business analyst in the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring and Requirements Management and Communication knowledge areas. You will learn to identify stakeholder needs, determine requirements risks and deliverables, manage scope and the requirements baseline via traceability and change control, assess communication needs, perform structured walkthroughs, and plan business analysis and requirements management activities.

Course Outline
Module 1: The Business Analyst Role in Context
Module 2: Stakeholders and Risk
Module 3: Business Analysis Planning
Module 4: Influences on Requirements Activities
Module 5: Requirements Management
Module 6: Change Control
Module 7: Business Analysis Communications

Features of CEG eLearning

• Course content is broken down into modules and topics. Participants explore the content using a variety of interactive methods, including:
• Roll-overs that uncover more detailed information on particular terms
• Pop-ups which allow participants to explore diagrams, templates, and processes in more depth
• An avatar, or animated mentor, who offers additional content that expands the topics on selected pages
• Knowledge checks that give participants a chance to review important points
• Graded quizzes identify topics participants have mastered and those they might need to study more
• A graded final exam validates the knowledge gained and skills mastered for the time committed
• In addition to individual interactivity, CEG also offers a learning community and social learning tools that allow participants to share with each other and gain a broader understanding from a variety of perspectives. Participants can take advantage of lively discussion boards and instructor-led chat sessions.