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B U S I N E S S A N A LY S I S
Core Competencies for the Business Analyst
What you will learn:
• Describe the role and responsibilities of the
business analyst.
• Understand the purpose of each IIBA® BABOK
Guide® knowledge area.
• Describe key tasks, inputs, outputs, tools, and
techniques of each knowledge area.
• Define key terms and principles fundamental
to understanding business analysis.
BA311
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2 Day
Business Analyst Essentials
What you will learn:
• Describe the role and responsibilities
of the business analyst.
• Describe key tasks, inputs, outputs, tools, and
techniques for each of the BABOK® Guide
knowledge areas.
• Define key terms and principles fundamental to
understanding business analysis.
• Identify business initiative needs through
strategy analysis.
• Plan for business analysis.
• Describe the requirements life cycle.
• Compare and contrast common requirement
elicitation techniques.
• Become familiar with common requirements
documentation/modeling techniques.
• Evaluate solutions in meeting requirements..
BA311a
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3 Day
Model and Document Your Project
Requirements
What you will learn:
• Describe the core functions of the business analyst
during Requirements Analysis and Design Definition.
• Describe and use a range of UML® and other
modeling techniques.
• Model a set of business rules for an organization
using either a decision table or decision tree.
• Identify and prioritize non-functional requirements.
BA312
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3 Day
Collaborate with Stakeholders to Elicit
Requirements
What you will learn:
• Describe the role of the business analyst in
performing the tasks of the Elicitation and
Collaboration knowledge area.
• Demonstrate best practices for ensuring high-
quality requirements.
• Demonstrate familiarity with a range of techniques
for eliciting requirements from and collaborating
with stakeholders.
• Describe methods of overcoming elicitation
challenges.
BA313
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3 Day
Plan, Manage, and Communicate Requirements
What you will learn:
• Describe the role of the business analyst in business
analysis planning, management, monitoring, and
communications.
• Assess and present business analysis risks and
determine risk responses.
• Describe how to manage requirements from initial
identification until the requirement is no longer
needed.
• Describe how to plan and manage the communication
of requirements to diverse stakeholders.
BA314
l
2 Day
