Business Analyst Boot Camp

This 4-day Business Analyst training course will give you hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for identifying a project's scope, developing and discovering requirements and uses cases, and documenting them expertly. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises will provide you with the competence and confidence to improve project outcomes through better requirements elicitation and use case development. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the challenges faced in defining correct requirements, practical approaches for eliciting and documenting requirements, and strategies for managing requirements throughout the project life cycle. If you play a role in defining project scope, capturing requirements, or managing project scope, you can't afford to miss this course!

Skills Gained

• Bridge the expectations gap between business stakeholders and technology solution providers
• Enhance business analysis techniques to reduce project cost
• Implement practical methods for understanding user requirements
• Improve your requirements elicitation, development and documentation
• Understand and describe the business environment in which a project exists
• Explore proven tactics for managing project scope
• Focus on discovering root causes, not just symptoms
• Gain tools and techniques for developing more precise requirements
• Practice state-of-the-art business and system modeling techniques
• Organize and categorize project requirements
• Quickly identify accurate use cases for new or enhanced business systems
• Produce high-quality, readable use case documentation
• Avoid common use case traps and pitfalls
• Overcome real-world challenges that confront today’s Business Analysts

Who Can Benefit

• Business customer, user or partner
• Business Analyst
• Business Systems Analyst
• Systems Analyst
• Project Manager or Team Leader
• Systems Architect or Designer
• IT Manager/Director
• Systems or Application Developer
• QA Professional
• Systems Tester
• Anyone wanting to enhance their business analysis skills
• Develop Critical Business Analyst Skills

Business Analysts provide an essential function by assessing and analyzing the business environment, defining the scope of business problems, capturing project requirements, designing high-value solution approaches, and ensuring that the defined scope meets the customer's needs, goals, objectives, and expectations. This practical workshop will provide participants with fundamental analysis tools and techniques, including methods to understand the business environment, define a problem using a systematic approach, and influence and inform project stakeholders at all levels. You will gain pragmatic solutions to sustain stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle, including questioning, listening, business need identification, problem solving, presentation, validation, and acceptance of the effective solution.