Business Analysis Essentials
Business Analysis Essentials, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.2, with 84 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 391 reviews, and has 1488 subscribers.
You will learn about Understand and justify the role of Business Analyst Describe the Business Analyst's relationship with business and IT stakeholders Understand the projects life cycles and the role of Business Analyst within each of them Apprehend the importance of project definition and project scope Recognize the different type of requirements and the need for requirements documentation Understand the basic skills required to work as a Business Analyst and what the employers are looking for when hiring Business Analysts Decide whether Business Analysis is the right career choice for them Understand how to go about finding a position as a Business Analyst This course is ideal for individuals who are Anybody who is interested to discover what Business Analysis is about or People who want to embark on a career as a Business Analyst or Students who want to decide if Business Analysis is the right career choice or Junior Business Analyst who want to build more confidence It is particularly useful for Anybody who is interested to discover what Business Analysis is about or People who want to embark on a career as a Business Analyst or Students who want to decide if Business Analysis is the right career choice or Junior Business Analyst who want to build more confidence.
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Summary
Title: Business Analysis Essentials
Price: $64.99
Average Rating: 4.2
Number of Lectures: 84
Number of Quizzes: 7
Number of Published Lectures: 84
Number of Published Quizzes: 7
Number of Curriculum Items: 91
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 91
Original Price: $84.99
Quality Status: approved
Status: Live
What You Will Learn
- Understand and justify the role of Business Analyst
- Describe the Business Analyst's relationship with business and IT stakeholders
- Understand the projects life cycles and the role of Business Analyst within each of them
- Apprehend the importance of project definition and project scope
- Recognize the different type of requirements and the need for requirements documentation
- Understand the basic skills required to work as a Business Analyst and what the employers are looking for when hiring Business Analysts
- Decide whether Business Analysis is the right career choice for them
- Understand how to go about finding a position as a Business Analyst
Who Should Attend
- Anybody who is interested to discover what Business Analysis is about
- People who want to embark on a career as a Business Analyst
- Students who want to decide if Business Analysis is the right career choice
- Junior Business Analyst who want to build more confidence
Target Audiences
- Anybody who is interested to discover what Business Analysis is about
- People who want to embark on a career as a Business Analyst
- Students who want to decide if Business Analysis is the right career choice
- Junior Business Analyst who want to build more confidence
“I solve problems you don’t know you have, in ways you can’t understand” (I am a Business Analyst).
The role of the Business Analyst is much more complex than the people perceive it to be and sometimes it can be a challenge to understand all its facets.
This course is aimed to overcome this challenge, by systematically introducing you in the world of Business Analysis, using a simplistic approach with a lot of examples anchored in our day to day life.
Master the Business Analysis concepts
- System development life cycles
- Eliciting requirements
- Elicitation techniques
- Documenting requirements
- Writing quality requirements
- Communicating requirements
There are many benefits for understanding these concepts, as they stay at the core foundation of the Business Analysis activity. Even if you are already working as a Business Analyst, these concepts will help you become a more effective and valuable employee. By applying the techniques taught here in your daily job as a Business Analyst you will be able to produce quality requirements in a shorter period of time and obtain the sign off of your requirements quicker. All this will translate into a successful project.
Contents and Overview
This course contains over 40 lectures and more than 3 hours of contents. It is designed for beginners to intermediate Business Analysts, students with no prior experience or junior Business Analyst who want to have a solid foundation in their career.
Beside the theoretical concepts taught, the course is packed with practical examples that would help you understand the techniques in a fun and functional way.
By the end of this course, you will have all the skills required to embark on a career as a Business Analyst. You will know what techniques to employ and when in order to elicit the stakeholders’ requirements and to bring everyone to a consensus with respect to the business needs.
And finally, you will have an opportunity to test your knowledge gained by taking the quizzes that complement each section.
What are the requirements for this course?
- Just your willingness to learn
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 40 lectures and 3 hours of content
- All Business Analysis fundamental knowledge
- Step by step instructions about how to prepare for a Business Analyst interview
- You will be able to be more effective and successful in your job as a Business Analyst
Who is the audience?
- Everyone who wants to gain basic knowledge about Business Analysis
- Students who want to pursue a Business Analyst career
- Junior or Intermediate Business Analysts who want to become more effective
- Senior Business Analysts who need a refresher of the Business Analysis core concepts
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: The Art and Science of Business Analysis
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: What is Business Analysis?
Lecture 3: Role of Business Analyst
Lecture 4: What do you need to be successful?
Lecture 5: Key terms
Lecture 6: Is Business Analysis an Art or a Science?
Lecture 7: Conclusion
Chapter 2: Stakeholders Management
Lecture 1: Who are the actors?
Lecture 2: How to identify the stakeholders
Lecture 3: Understanding the stakeholders
Lecture 4: Classifying the stakeholders
Lecture 5: Conclusion
Lecture 6: Case Study – City Transit System
Chapter 3: Project evolution
Lecture 1: SDLC
Lecture 2: SDLC Models
Lecture 3: Waterfall Model
Lecture 4: V Model
Lecture 5: Iterative Model
Lecture 6: Spiral Model
Lecture 7: Big Bang Model
Lecture 8: Agile Model
Lecture 9: Conclusion Section 3
Chapter 4: Requirements lifecycle
Lecture 1: Impact of SDLC on Business Analysis
Lecture 2: Business Analyst's role during SDLC
Lecture 3: Requirements in the context of SDLC
Lecture 4: Conclusion Section 4
Chapter 5: Requirements elicitation
Lecture 1: What is requirements elicitation?
Lecture 2: Preparing for elicitation
Lecture 3: Conducting the elicitation activity
Lecture 4: Conclusion
Chapter 6: Elicitation techniques for gathering requirements
Lecture 1: Elicitation techniques overview
Lecture 2: Brainstorming
Lecture 3: Activity
Lecture 4: Brainwriting
Lecture 5: Interview
Lecture 6: Activity
Lecture 7: Observation
Lecture 8: Activity
Lecture 9: Focus group
Lecture 10: Requirements workshop
Lecture 11: Conclusion
Chapter 7: Elicitation techniques for analyzing requirements
Lecture 1: Root cause analysis
Lecture 2: Activity
Lecture 3: GAP Analysis
Lecture 4: Interface analysis
Lecture 5: Document Analysis
Lecture 6: Conclusion
Chapter 8: Elicitation techniques for decisions making
Lecture 1: T-charts
Lecture 2: Activity
Lecture 3: Impact Effort Grid
Lecture 4: Multivoting
Lecture 5: Criteria-based Grid
Lecture 6: Activity
Lecture 7: Prototyping
Lecture 8: Conclusion
Chapter 9: Requirements documentation
Lecture 1: Documenting Requirements
Lecture 2: Declarative Requirements
Lecture 3: Use Cases
Lecture 4: Data Models
Lecture 5: Process models
Lecture 6: Business Rules
Lecture 7: Sign off
Lecture 8: Change control
Lecture 9: Requirements tools
Lecture 10: Conclusion
Lecture 11: Case Study – Dream Cafe
Chapter 10: Requirements communication
Lecture 1: Communicating requirements
Lecture 2: Factors influencing the communication
Lecture 3: Conclusion
Chapter 11: Qualitative requirements
Lecture 1: Poor requirements – individual
Lecture 2: Poor requirements – set
Lecture 3: Impact of poor requirements
Lecture 4: Guidelines for quality requirements
Lecture 5: Conclusion
Chapter 12: Types of requirements
Lecture 1: Functional vs. Non-Functional
Lecture 2: Conclusion
Chapter 13: Landing a job as a Business Analyst
Lecture 1: Required skills
Lecture 2: Finding a job posting
Lecture 3: Building your resume
Lecture 4: The interview
Instructors
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Cristian Fador
Business Consultant, CIP MBA
Rating Distribution
- 1 stars: 10 votes
- 2 stars: 11 votes
- 3 stars: 60 votes
- 4 stars: 109 votes
- 5 stars: 201 votes
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