Business Analysis Boot Camp – Business Analysis Training
Business Analysis Boot Camp is a practical hands-on course that engages attendees and encourages learning. The course focuses on introducing core business analysis concepts and skills with straightforward methods. Attendees will learn about business analysis concepts and techniques through individual and team exercises, lecture and class discussions. Course learning is based on presenting information and concepts then having students engage in exercises to increase retention, practice and understand how to actually complete techniques. The goal of our course is for all attendees to walk away with an understanding of business analysis fundamentals as well as a toolbox of techniques and knowledge they can immediately apply on the job. The course aligns with the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®).
Beyond the fundamentals of business analysis, the course explores how lean business analysis and lean principles are valuable on any project (regardless of SDLC approach). We compare and contrast agile and traditional development approaches in relation to business analysis and business value. Given that agile is now used on more projects than any other development approach, we review the Scrum framework to ensure all students have an understanding of agile concepts and learn where analysis fits in agile projects.
This business analysis training course is offered publicly 2-3 times a year in Denver, Colorado, USA, as well as onsite upon request throughout the US and world. Call us at 303-746-7479 or email us at solutions@vimstreet.com for more information.
Custom Training Options
If your organization is interested in a custom business analysis boot camp, please contact us to discuss the options. Our custom Business Analysis Boot Camp training course is tailored to our customers: we integrate your real business examples into the course to create a hands-on workshop for your organization. We can also add additional business analysis training topics to the course, such as user story training.
Course Credit: 24 course hours can be submitted for PDU or CDU credit (for PMI or IIBA respectively).
Learning Objectives
- Provide a fun, interesting and comfortable environment for attendees to explore ideas, enhance skills, learn and practice concepts
- Learn a straightforward approach to business analysis that can add value on the job right away
- Practice business analysis techniques and skills with hands-on exercises (including a case study simulation)
- Demystify business analysis terminology and concepts
- Understand how analysis fits into agile projects
- Understand how you can apply lean business analysis ideas
- Develop a Business Analysis Personal Action Plan to improve knowledge retention and increase your success
Key Concepts
- Business Analysis Fundamentals and Project Approaches
- Understand key business analysis terms and concepts including the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) Knowledge Areas
- Understand key BA competencies and assess areas for improvement
- Learn what it means to be a lean BA and how to identify software process wastes
- Understand the core differences between project approaches–sequential (waterfall) vs. lean (and agile)–and impacts to project value
- Explore lean business analysis concepts and how to streamline the analysis process–regardless of your SDLC
- Learn the foundations of Scrum, an agile framework, and where analysis fits in agile projects
- Enterprise Analysis
- Learn the fundamentals of enterprise analysis and why it is so important
- Complete an enterprise analysis exercise to define high-level solution scope using a backlog
- People and Scope
- Review the roles of customers, sponsors, product owners, champions, users and stakeholders
- Complete a stakeholder analysis and profile
- Refine solution scope by analyzing information, defining actors and mapping scope
- Understand why scope should be a business analyst’s best friend
- Discuss scope management approaches and options
- Requirements Fundamentals
- Understand various types of requirements and requirements attributes
- Practice improving requirements quality (e.g., user stories, use cases, business rules, non-functional requirements)
- Learn why examples are critical to requirement and test development as well as delivering value sooner
- Business Analysis Planning
- Learn preparation tips to overcome requirements elicitation challenges
- Review stakeholder profiles and develop an approach to meet with/interview them
- Requirements Elicitation & Analysis Techniques
- Understand the pros and cons of key requirements elicitation techniques
- Practice requirements elicitation techniques
- Develop a process map after analyzing artifacts and stakeholder input
- Develop, assess and improve use cases
- Assess user stories and acceptance criteria
- Understand how models help improve solution quality
- Business Analysis Communication and Improvement
- Learn requirements communication approaches to fit your audience and approach
- Learn how to run a retrospective to increase team and project success