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Fundamentals of Business Analysis

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Fundamentals of Business Analysis

Get the foundation in business analysis you need to solve your organization's biggest problems.

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Last updated 11/2021

Don Hussey

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Lessons

Quizzes

Duration

13 Hours

Skill level

Beginner

Language

English

Certificate

Yes

Full lifetime access

Yes

Description

Course Overview

This course provides everything you need to get started in your career in business analysis.

Our courses focus on how analysis is performed in the real world, and they're full of examples, case studies and lessons learned from actual Business Analysts on the job.

This is a perfect first course in any business analysis curriculum.

Syllabus

1. Business Analysis

Overview of Business Analysis

Overview of Requirements

Role of the Business Analyst

2. Stakeholders

Who are they? And why do they matter?

The most common stakeholders: The project team, management, and the front line

Handling Stakeholder Conflicts

3. Life Cycles

Systems Development Life Cycles

Project Life Cycles

Product Life Cycles

Requirement Life Cycles

Seventh Morning's Requirements Development Life Cycle

4. Forming Requirements

Overview of Requirements

Attributes of Good Requirements

Types of Requirements

Requirement Sources

Gathering Requirements from Stakeholders

Common Requirements Documents

5. Transforming Requirements

Stakeholder Needs Analysis

Decomposition Analysis

Additive/Subtractive Analysis

Gap Analysis

Notations (UML & BPMN)

Flowcharts

Swim Lane Flowcharts

Entity-Relationship Diagrams

State-Transition Diagrams

Data Flow Diagrams

Use Case Modeling

Business Process Modeling

6. Finalizing Requirements

Presenting – 10 Tips

Presenting Requirements

Socializing Requirements and Gaining Acceptance

Prioritizing Requirements

7. Managing Requirements Assets

Change Control

Requirements Tools

8. Scenario
Who this course is for:
Novice to intermediate Business Analysts
Professionals looking to transition into a Business Analyst role

What you'll learn

Learn the foundations of business analysis

Learn how to gather requirements from stakeholders and documentary sources

Learn how to analyze, diagram and model requirements

Learn how to present requirements effectively and gain acceptance

Learn how to manage requirements assets after the project is complete

Requirements

You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
No previous design experience is needed.
No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.

Course Content

27 sections • 95 lectures

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1-Overview of Business Analysis

1.1-Introduction to the Course

1.2-What is Business Analysis?

1.3-What is Business Analysis?

1.4-The Value of Business Analysis

1.5-The Value of Business Analysis

1.6-What Problems does it Address?

1.7-What Problems does it Address?

1.8-Requirements

1.9-Requirements

1.10-Who Performs Business Analysis?

1.11-Who Performs Business Analysis?

1.12-The Business Analyst Role

1.13-Quiz: The Business Analyst Role

1.14-Section 1 Materials

1.15-Introductions

2-Stakeholders

2.1-Overview of Stakeholders

2.2-Stakeholders

2.3-The Project Manager

2.4-The Project Manager

2.5-The Developer

2.6-The Developer

2.7-The QA/Testing Professional

2.8-The QA/Testing Professional

2.9-Management

2.10-Management

2.11-The Front Line

2.12-The Front Line

2.13-Managing Stakeholder Conflict

2.14-Managing Stakeholder Conflict

2.15-Section 2 Materials

2.16-Stakeholders

3-Lifecycles

3.1-Overview of Life Cycles

3.2-The PLC and SDLC

3.3-The PLC and SDLC

3.4-Waterfall and Iterative SDLCs

3.5-Waterfall and Iterative SDLCs

3.6-Agile SDLCs

3.7-Agile SDLCs

3.8-The Product Life Cycle

3.9-The Product Life Cycle

3.10-Requirements Life Cycles

3.11-Requirements Life Cycles

3.12-NorwalkAberdeen's Requirements Definition Model

3.13-NorwalkAberdeen's Requirements Definition Model

3.14-Section 3 Materials

3.15-Life Cycles

4-Forming Requirements

4.1-Overview of Requirements

4.2-Overview of Requirements

4.3-Attributes of Good Requirements

4.4-Attributes of Good Requirements

4.5-Business Requirements

4.6-Business Requirements

4.7-User Requirements

4.8-User Requirements

4.9-Functional Requirements

4.10-Functional Requirements

4.11-Nonfunctional Requirements

4.12-Nonfunctional Requirements

4.13-Requirement Sources

4.14-Requirement Sources

4.15-Gathering Requirements in One-on-One Interviews

4.16-Gathering Requirements in One-on-One Interviews

4.17-Gathering Requirements in Group Interviews

4.18-Gathering Requirements in Group Interviews

4.19-Common Requirements Documents

4.20-Common Requirements Documents

4.21-Agile Requirements

4.22-Agile Requirements

4.23-Section 4 Materials

4.24-Group Interviewing

5-Transforming Requirements

5.1-Overview of Analysis

5.2-"Thinking about Stuff"

5.3-Decomposition Analysis

5.4-Decomposition Analysis

5.5-Additive/Subtractive Analysis

5.6-Additive/Subtractive Analysis

5.7-Gap Analysis

5.8-Gap Analysis

5.9-Decision Analysis

5.10-Decision Analysis

5.11-Root Cause Analysis

5.12-Root Cause Analysis

5.13-Stakeholder Needs Analysis

5.14-Stakeholder Needs Analysis

5.15-Overview of Modeling

5.16-Flowcharts

5.17-Flowcharts

5.18-Swim Lane Flowcharts

5.19-Swim Lane Flowcharts

5.20-Entity-Relationship Modeling

5.21-Entity-Relationship Modeling

5.22-State-Transition Modeling

5.23-State-Transition Modeling

5.24-Data Flow Modeling

5.25-Data Flow Modeling

5.26-Use Case Modeling

5.27-Use Case Modeling

5.28-Business Process Modeling

5.29-Business Process Modeling

5.30-Notations: UML and BPMN

5.31-Section 5 Materials

5.32-Modeling a User-System Interaction

6-Finalizing Requirements

6.1-Finalizing Requirements

6.2-Socialization

6.3-Socialization

6.4-Presentation

6.5-Presentation

6.6-Change Control

6.7-Change Control

6.8-Section 6 Materials

6.9-Gaining a Senior Manager’s Support

7-Scenario

7.1-Scenario Overview

7.2-High-Level Interview (with Solomon)

7.3-Detailed Interview (with Martha)

7.4-Initial Documentation

7.5-Transforming the Requirements

7.6-Stakeholder Needs Analysis

7.7-Decomposition Analysis

7.8-Swim Lane Flowchart

7.9-Finalizing the Requirements (via a Walk-Through)

7.10-Analysis & Modeling Method Selection

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