Business Analysis Classroom Courses

This training workshop delivers core competencies that every business systems analyst should possess. The program focuses on the skills of defining business problems, eliciting requirements from business subject matter experts, writing clearly understandable requirements, and communicating to all levels of the business within the project structure.

This training workshop presents techniques, methods, and tricks to help Business System Analysts model, analyze, and improve business and system processes. These techniques help the analysts and the business subject matter experts create business process models including workflow and Swimlane (activity) diagrams. It also teaches how to use the process models for analysis and system improvement.

This hands-on training workshop is designed to give you a time proven set of techniques, methods, and tricks to help you acquire, understand, document, and model business data. This course will give you both an intuitive top-down approach to data modeling and a rigorous bottom-up approach.

In this 2-day training workshop, you will learn from real live projects how to select the appropriate testing strategy, develop a set of usable test plans, identify an effective set of test cases and create test scripts for the real world.

This training workshop presents a set of techniques that are designed to help the business systems analyst ask the right questions at the beginning of the project and effectively structure requirements gathering meetings with the subject matter experts.

This course focuses on presenting what the IIBA Body of Knowledge is, how it is structured, how it can be used, and the critical role of business analysis for organizational efficiency (and profitability).

Managing the evolving business requirements on a project is a challenge facing business analysts everywhere. Ensuring that the requirements are captured, clarified, confirmed and communicated at the appropriate level of detail for the target audience is just one component of requirements management, albeit a major one. Beyond communication, requirements traceability, status tracking, and making the appropriate requirements reusable are activities that can be equally critical on information technology projects.

The techniques presented in this training workshop will allow Requirements Engineers to define and manage requirements definition "projects" from 4 days to 4 months in duration. It offers a complete set of techniques for managing definition of business requirements on a small scale. All of the techniques scale to larger, more sophisticated efforts.

This training workshop introduces the basics of use case documentation and use case diagrams as tools for business systems analysts. It explains the who, what, when, where, why and how of use cases and use case diagrams which are becoming a standard for defining functional requirements in interactive systems.

Early project estimating: every client wants it, most information system professionals can’t do it, and everyone is suspicious of it. This training workshop introduces Project Managers and business personnel to methods that yield reasonable early estimates and improve the communication of the factors that affect them.

JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions produce high-quality deliverables in extremely short time frames. In this training workshop, you will learn how to plan, schedule, resource, and conduct efficient and effective JAD sessions. You can also add a JAD simulation day to this workshop.

This training workshop teaches a technique referred to as User Stories (not to be confused with use case) that offers a tried and tested solution to early requirements gathering. This technique helps business Systems Analysts focus on the business need or goals for the system and avoid the trap of considering the system and technical specifications too early.