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Business Analyst Essentials

 

The successful Business Analyst needs to be business savvy, have a very good understanding of technology and is best filled by individuals with a broad skill set. 

As the recommended first course for those pursuing the Business Analysis Certificate, you'll learn the tools and skills a business analyst needs to succeed. You'll also learn how to apply those skills throughout the Business Analysis Life Cycle as documented in the Business Analyst Body of Knowledge (BABOK®). All Business Analysis courses can be taken individually or as a series to earn the certificate.

Learning Outcomes

  • Improve soft skills (communication, creativity, office politics)
  • Enhance understanding of the relationship among data, decisions, and process
  • Gain immediate comprehension of systems thinking and its universal role in the organization

 

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Seminar Outline

Introduction
The organizational role of business analysts
The evolving role of the business analyst
Business analysis in the context of strategy, operations and projects
Business Analysts vs. Project Manager

Business Analyst Tools, Techniques and Skills
Brainstorming: Purpose, techniques, objectives, do's and don'ts
Basic Facilitation: Meeting management, meeting logistics, meeting follow-up
Business Process Modeling
Flowcharting: How to create a working flow-chart
Numeric/statistical analysis
Communication
Office politics
Creativity: Convergent and divergent thinking
Problem solving and systems thinking

Applying the Life Cycle of Business Analysts

Introduction of "Running Case Study" - Call Center Changes

Enterprise analysis
• Strategic planning and goal setting
• Business architecture
• Feasibility studies
• Project scopes and business case
• Prioritizing projects

Requirements planning and management
• Team roles
• Requirements risk approach
• Stakeholders
• Estimates
• Measuring and reporting product and project metrics
• Managing requirements change

Requirements elicitation
• Elicitation techniques
• Documentation and quality control

Requirements analysis and documentation
• Structure requirements and documentation
• Business domain models - Analyze user and functional requirements
• Assumptions and constraints
• Document requirements attributes
• Validate and verify requirements
• Data behavior and data modeling

Requirements communication
• Creating a requirements communication plan
• Managing requirements conflicts
• Creating a requirements package

Solution assessment and validation

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This program can be applied toward the:

 
  Sessions  
Mon.-Tue., Oct. 14-15
8:30am-4:30pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Timothy Johnson
Fee: $845
CEUs: 1.4/PDUs: 14/CDUs: 14
Program No. 5025-0521
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For more information, contact:
  Maribeth Sacho, Program Associate, msacho@uwm.edu, 414-227-3337
Anne O'Meara, Program Director, aomeara@uwm.edu, 414-227-3311
 

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