Applying Business Analysis
Course Length: 1 day
DESCRIPTION
This is a highly interactive requirements management training course that helps you assess analysis situations, interpret the information at hand, and ask the right questions so that you can determine the most appropriate approach(s) and course(s) of action to make your requirements management and definition as efficient and effective as possible.
Participants are given a scenario in which they work in teams to define their approach for elicitation and analysis. Skills and techniques covered in the prior days of Essential Skills for Business Analysis are utilized and a checklist is provided to rate their approach, revise, and present a final analysis approach. As the day progresses, students have the opportunity to “Swim with the Sharks”. The “sharks” are additional scenarios that simulate real world project obstacles in which participants make decisions on how to overcome and maneuver through the rough waters. Lessons provide concrete tips and techniques to effectively handle each situation.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed for individuals performing business analysis activities; business analysts, project managers, business systems analysts, product managers, product owners, system architect, process engineers, requirements engineers, or any other project team member.
PREREQUISITES
First three days of Business Analysis Foundation or familiar with elicitation and analysis techniques.
COURSE OUTLINE
DEVELOPING AN ANALYSIS APPROACH
- Review elicitation and analysis techniques
- Workshop – What is your Analysis Approach?
- Work in groups to select techniques and determine your approach to a given case study. Students may use their projects.
- Rate your outcome with the Analysis Checklist provided
- Revise your approach as needed and present
- Discuss success criteria for an analysis approach to getting started and/or moving your project forward
- Discuss why you chose each particular elicitation and analysis technique in your approach
- Define Excellent Requirements characteristics
- Requirements Management: Organize and capture requirements
- Describe why being more organized increases team agility
- Distinguish the different levels of requirements categories and explain their area of focus
- Describe the different kinds of requirements information that needs to be included in your requirements repository
- Compare and contrast approaches for effectively organizing, filtering and reporting your requirements-related content
SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS
- Workshop – Swimming with the Sharks
- Work in groups to create an approach for overcoming real world obstacles that effect projects
- Describe key strategies for having difficult conversations with SMEs and maneuvering through office politics
- Describe options for increased stakeholder engagement with a Quick Tip job aid
- Discuss approaches to resolve conflicting needs, including prioritization options
- Define methods for performing traceability and impact analysis
COURSE SUMMARY
- Bringing it all together
- Develop an Action Plan with next steps on the student’s current project