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Business Analysis Planning and Management

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Do you want to know how to plan and manage your business analysis tasks, including planning for elicitation, analysis, documentation, traceability, and requirements reviews? Learn the essential project management concepts and skills to effectively create business analysis planning deliverables and manage the requirements process.

This one-day class will cover planning techniques using hands-on exercises based on a case study provided to students in class. The workshop includes material and techniques from the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area in the IIBA’s Business Analyst Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide).

Who Should Attend

  • Business analysts or persons in other roles seeking to expand their skills

    • Continuing Education Information

    • .65 CEUs
    • 6.5 PDUs
    • 6.0 CDUs
    • Certificate of Completion from The University of Texas at Austin

    Outcomes

    Upon successful completion, students will learn:

    • How to select a BA approach
    • How to analyze stakeholder groups
    • How to create a RACI chart
    • How to build and estimate a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    • How to analyze risks
    • How to define requirements attributes and plan for traceability
    • How to prioritize requirements
    • How to manage changes to requirements
    • How to track BA performance

    Prerequisites

    The Business Analysis Essentials class is recommended but not required.

    Detailed Course Outline

    • The Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Knowledge Area
    • Planning considerations
    • Selecting the approach: plan or change-driven
    • BA deliverables by approach
    • Activity: Select the approach and deliverables
    • Stakeholder analysis techniques
    • Defining roles and responsibilities
    • Activity: Create a RACI chart
    • Mapping stakeholder influence and attitudes
    • Activity: Create a stakeholder map
    • Analyzing risks
    • Activity: Perform a risk analysis
    • Building the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    • Estimating Tasks
    • Activity: Build a WBS and estimate tasks
    • Planning BA communications
    • Managing BA performance
    • Activity: Determine performance measures
    • Planning for traceability
    • Defining requirements attributes
    • Activity: Create a trace matrix
    • Prioritization Techniques
    • Managing changes to requirements
    • Activity: Define a change control process

    Instructor(s)

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