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Become a Business Analyst

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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

  • 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
    • 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.

Taught by

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

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  • Chikhi Hicham
    bonjour,
    avoir la chance à partir de votre plateforme qui nous dirige vers les cours et les parcours de formation professionnels c'est une opportunité inimaginable et surtout lorsque vous chercher une formation pointue et demandée dans le marché.
    ce parcours de la formation de business analyst proposé par linkden learning m'a donné plus qu'une idée sur ce qu’il faut avoir comme compétence et outils qualitative et quantitative mais il va me permettre de tracer clairement mon choix professionnel.
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