In order to meet their objectives and enable change in an enterprise, business analysts must understand their roles and responsibilities and be able to identify and quantify their objectives. In this online course, business analysts, project managers and other agents of change will continue to grow their skills in stakeholder requirements analysis and traceability through the lifecycle of the project. Students will learn the techniques for organizing the information needed to support traceability and quality assurance, and complete an assessment of the solution to measure performance and evaluate the benefits of a project. Learners will explore these concepts through a mix of lectures, supplementary videos and readings and hands-on activities and case studies. At the end of this course, participants will be able to identify stakeholder requirements, resolve business conflicts, and identify and use opportunities and techniques to assess solution performance and the realization of benefits.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply fundamental methods of requirements analysis
- Evaluate and recognize when to utilize opportunities and techniques to reengineer business processes
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate with project managers and stakeholders in order to track requirements towards closure
- Assess requirements to ensure that they continue to meet original business goals
- Appraise solution performance and the realization of benefits
Skills You Will Gain
- Requirement specification, models and analysis
- Communication
- Change management
- Solution evaluation
Note: This course is designed to meet the standards of business analysis training, as defined by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)® and Project Management Institute (PMI)®.