The course teaches project managers the competencies and skills that a business analyst can provide to a project team and project activities.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Business analysis: Supporting project management work
- What is business analysis?
- Common business analysis competencies
- Initiating a project
- Situation statement and needs assessment
- Key components of the business case
- How to determine the business need without a business case
- Stakeholder identification and assessment
- The importance of stakeholder engagement
- How to develop a shared vision of the product or project result
- How to develop a road map for product delivery
- Identify, plan, and execute on business analysis activities
- Including analysis activities in the project schedule
- Determine product scope
- Product requirements
- Eliciting requirements
- Analyzing requirements
- Baselining requirements
- Business analyst (BA) or product owner
- Analysis of agile requirements
- Supporting requirements verification and testing
- Validation and acceptance of requirements
- Planning transition
- Complete transition activities
- Determine solution deployment readiness
- Business analysis competencies are essential for project managers
Taught by
Greta Blash