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Become a Business Analyst

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Overview

In this learning path, you can learn all the skills to gather, document, and analyze business needs and requirements and become a successful business analyst.
  • Develop basic business analyst skills required for this role.
  • Demonstrate technical skills to execute effectively.
  • Build leadership and communication skills to excel and advance.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: What Is Business Analysis?
-Business analysis is often used to refer to a profession, a competency, and the discipline of performing business research. This course gives an overview of all three areas.

Course 2: Business Analysis Foundations
-Learn the foundations of business analysis. Explore the role of the business analyst and the BA process, from conducting a needs assessment to release planning.

Course 3: Agile Requirements Foundations
-Learn how agile impacts the business analyst (BA) role and the requirements discovery process.

Course 4: Business Benefits Realization Foundations
-Get introduced to business benefits realization, a practical way to ensure high-valued projects and programs are selected and their benefits are achieved and sustained long-term.

Course 5: Business Analyst and Project Manager Collaboration
-Business analysts and project managers need to work together to get successful results. Learn collaboration techniques for each stage of the project management process.

Course 6: Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
-Explore how to leverage elicitation and analysis techniques to define great requirements. Learn why these techniques are important and how to tailor them to your project.

Course 7: Business Analysis Foundations: Business Process Modeling
-Explore the benefits of using business process modeling to make sense of your company's business activities, including commonly used process modeling diagrams and how to use them.

Course 8: Requirements Elicitation for Business Analysts: Interviews
-Learn when and how to conduct interviews with users and project stakeholders to identify project requirements.

Course 9: Excel Quick Tips
-Get the answers to common Microsoft Excel questions. Learn tips for how to format cells, align rows and columns, calculate sums, generate series data automatically, and more.

Course 10: Word Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)
-Get the most out of the Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) version of Word. Learn how to create, format, share, and print a wide variety of documents using this application.

Course 11: PowerPoint Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)
-Learn how to create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365).

Course 12: Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals (2019)
-Get a basic introduction to the careers, tools, and techniques of modern data science.

Course 13: Leadership Foundations
-Learn what it takes to lead with confidence, integrity, and agility. Explore the critical skills and competencies that drive value in organizations and inspire top performance.

Course 14: Communication Foundations
-Build your communication skills. Learn how to communicate more effectively in professional situations, including meetings, email, and presentations.

Course 15: Communication within Teams
-Learn how to cultivate the communication practices of high-performing teams. Discover how to establish a team charter, communicate in different settings, and more.

Course 16: Interpersonal Communication
-Learn strategies that can help you master your interpersonal communication skills in the workplace.

Course 17: Negotiation Foundations
-Learn core negotiation skills to get win-win outcomes every time.

Courses

Taught by

Laura Paton MBA CBAP, PMI-PBA, IIBA-AAC, Greta Blash, PgMP, PMP, PBA, BAPO, ACP, DASSM, CDAI, Angela Wick, Haydn Thomas, Jess Stratton, David Rivers, Barton Poulson, Dr. Shirley Davis, Brenda Bailey-Hughes, Daisy Lovelace, Dorie Clark and Lisa Gates

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