Business Analysis Foundation course. The main goal of the course is to help you master theoretical knowledge and acquire skills that are critical for a business analyst on a project

The course will teach how to communicate with the client, how to specify and manage requirements and how to interact with the development team

You will go through all main stages of Business Analysis while working on your project from the first day of the course

Finishing the course, you will:

• analyze stakeholders, the business context, and the current state for building new solutions;
• know how to better communicate with the client and how to identify the requirements through the interviews;
• perform better at document analysis, brainstorming and workshops, problems’ analysis, and root causes;
• learn how to define and document the solution scope, specify requirements with Use Cases and User Stories, and create core business analysis documents;
• learn how to manage requirements: prioritize, control the quality of requirements, document, and submit implemented requirements
• know how to work with different levels (business requirements, stakeholder requirements, and solution requirements) and types (functional and non-functional) of requirements

IT’S A MATCH FOR YOU IF:

• You are not in IT yet and want to get to know more about a new profession to become a business analyst
• You are an IT-insider, and you want to deepen your expertise to get to understand your clients better
• You are a business analyst and wish to structure your BA knowledge and upgrade your performance

JOIN THE COURSE!

Trainers:

• Anna Mazurenko
• Vitalii Liakh
• Oksana Roman
• Olga Beresh
• Olha Holubets
• Mariana Khishchenko
• Olga Levit
• Iryna Kriuchkova
• Yuliya Yurchyshyn
• Marta Kushlyk

Agenda:

• Course rules & introduction – Entry session
• Intro about BA – The Business Analyst role, what personal traits BA should have, what techniques they should use, and what rights and responsibilities they have
• SDLC Process – Software Development Life Cycles with roles responsibilities and needs (BA, QA, PM, DEV, Architect)
• Stakeholder Management – Why we need stakeholder’s analysis and management, what techniques may be useful to analyze stakeholders
• Requirements Classification – What are the business, stakeholder, solution and transition requirements? Why are the assumption, constraints, and business rules important?
• Requirements Lifecycle – What is Requirements Life Cycle Management? What is it consist of? What is the purpose of RLCM?
• Requirements Elicitation – How to elicit requirements in the most effective way
• Scope Definition – Scope types and baselining, techniques to outline scope
• Impact mapping
• Process Modeling – What is process modeling? A practice with a UML activity flow diagram
• Requirements Specification and documentation - Functional decomposition and requirements’ documentation
• Story Mapping – Story-Mapping theory and practice
• User Story + Acceptance Criteria
• Requirements quality – What are the criteria for successful requirements?
• Non-functional Requirements – Non-functional requirements and how to put together all business analysis data
• Requirements prioritization – What techniques can be used for requirements’ prioritization
• Effective Demo and User Feedback evaluation
• Closure – Participants’ presentations, course feedback, and Q&A

Location: Online course

Organizers: SoftServe & Business Analysis Community