Business Analysis Fundamentals is a course which will provide foundational skills in business analysis. Students will learn the basic roles of stakeholders and how to gather real requirements from each stakeholder; allow requirements gathering to influence the business case; and use communication techniques to strengthen stakeholder relationships throughout the entire project process. The course content was developed using A Guide to Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®), 3rd edition (IIBA), Business Analysis for Practitioners (PMI), and other top Business Analysis resources.

Objective 1: Review an overview of business analysis · Discuss the history of business analysis · Show the Business Analysis Overview Process · List BABOK®’s knowledge areas · Define key terms used in business analysis · Examine the Business Analysis approach · Define the business analyst role · Define business analyst competencies · Examine the Business Analysis tiers

Objective 2: Create a Business Analysis Plan · Examine the Business Analysis Planning Process

Objective 3: Identify stakeholders and their roles · List requirements interview questions · Define active listening

Objective 4: Analyze the Requirements · Examine requirements elicitation · Explain the Feasibility Study · Examine product and project scope

Objective 5: Uncover and Analyze Needs · Compare Needs and Requirements · Design a Root Cause Analysis · Create the Business Case · Manage and Enforce the Scope · Define the Scope

Objective 6: Define and Manage Requirements · Compare Functional and Supplemental requirements · Examine types of requirements · Define and detail requirements management · Review guidelines for writing requirements

Objective 7: Examine Project Life Cycle Models · Define and model approaches including waterfall, vee, agile, rad, legacy, prototype, evolutionary, and spiral

Objective 8: Create Tools to Use · Examine the Zachman Framework for Understanding Organizations · Summarize Business Drivers

Objective 9: Choose the Right Analysis Techniques · Analyze models for requirement analysis · Discuss estimation techniques

Objective 10: Validate and Verify Solutions · Define and detail solution assessment and validation · Discuss validation techniques Discover techniques for managing requirements traceability

Objective 11: Moving from Planning to Implementation · Prepare requirements package · Examine transitioning

Objective 12: Examine Communication in Business Analysis · Discover the Business Analyst’s role · Examine Business Analysis in an Agile methodology