Description

21 CDUs/PDUs (18 Technical, 3 Leadership)

Business Analysis Fundamentals Simulation Powered Learning® Workshop adds our Business Analysis Simulation to our 2 day Business Analysis Fundamentals training to make it a 3 day class. Students practice and learn how to apply best practice business analysis skills through a computer simulation. The simulation powered learning is practical, engaging, intense and challenging.

In this blended learning workshop participants learn the fundamental tools and techniques of business analysis from an enterprise, project and implementation perspective. Good business analysts understand how to develop stakeholder relationships and work with stakeholders to elicit requirements. However, eliciting requirements is only one part of good business analysis. Requirements also need to be planned, analyzed, documented, communicated, managed, tested and verified through the project life cycle to realize the total benefit of good business analysis.

This workshop emphasizes the technical effort as well as providing real-life practice in effective human relationship building, communications planning and day to day execution.

Participants are introduced to the fundamentals of business analysis through the lecture and guidance of an experienced business analyst. Then they practice and learn how to apply best practice business analysis skills through a computer simulation. In teams of four, participants actually plan and manage a simulated real-life business analysis project. They learn what it feels like as they make real decisions and get real feedback. The simulation powered learning is practical, engaging, intense and challenging. It’s designed to give you the practice and confidence you need to apply your new skills back at work.

Topics You Will Practice and Learn:

•  Understand the business analysis process and business analysis framework
•  Create a requirements and management plan
•  Develop stakeholder relationships
•  Capture and document requirements text and models
•  Requirements analysis
•  Manage requirements throughout the software development life cycle
•  Creation and use of a traceability matrix
•  Requirements elicitation techniques and development of a Business Requirements Document (BRD)

Who Should Attend:

•  Those interested in becoming Business Analysts
•  Business Analysts wishing to build on their skills and/or to revisit fundamental Business Analysis principles.
•  Project Managers, Project Sponsors or others who wish to broaden their  understanding of the Business Analysis end-to-end process.