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Career Essentials in Business Analysis by Microsoft and LinkedIn

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Overview

Discover the skills needed to thrive in a business analyst role. Explore foundational business analysis concepts and understand key processes. Practice using software tools for common business analysis tasks.
  • Develop essential business analysis skills
  • Master software tools used in business analysis
  • Leverage requirements gathering and analysis techniques

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: 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 6: 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 7: Requirements Elicitation for Business Analysts: Interviews
-Learn when and how to conduct interviews with users and project stakeholders to identify project requirements.

Course 8: 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 9: Project Management Foundations: Requirements
-Learn an easy 10-step process to manage the requirements for any project.

Course 10: Managing Projects with Microsoft 365
-Learn to identify the different benefits of using Planner, Project, and Lists when managing a project, and utilize them to help you collaborate with others.

Course 11: Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics
-Get an introduction to data science designed for people who aren't planning on being full-time data scientists. Learn the basics of gathering and analyzing big data.

Course 12: Managing Data with Microsoft 365
-Learn how to manage data in Microsoft 365 to take on new projects, gather insights, and improve your performance at work.

Courses

Taught by

Laura Paton MBA, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Greta Blash, PgMP, PMP, RMP, CBAP, PBA, ACP, CAPM, Angela Wick, Haydn Thomas, Daniel Stanton, Microsoft and Doug Rose

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