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Enterprise Analysis: Creating the Context for Successful Process Improvement and IT Projects

Course Details

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How often have you read of a company that touted the successful implementation of new processes or technology one year and then struggled to achieve business results the next?

Unfortunately, an improvement project executed to technical perfection will only have modest impact if it doesn’t tightly target critical business needs. Enterprise Analysis is the collection of early project activities that capture the necessary view of the business to provide context to requirements and functional design efforts.

Enroll in the PDC Business Analysis Certificate Program

There is no prerequisite for this course.

BABoK Compliance

This seminar thoroughly covers the Enterprise Analysis knowledge area.

Who Should Attend

  • Business analysis managers
  • Business or technical analysts
  • Operations managers
  • Project managers
  • Requirements engineers
  • IT or development managers
  • Systems analyst or managers

Professional Development and Continuing Education Units

This seminar is worth 12 PDUs and 1.2 CEUs.

Outcomes

  • Identify stakeholders and navigate the organizational politics
  • Understand the components of a Business Architecture
  • Conduct feasibility studies to determine the optimum business solution
  • Scope and define the new business opportunity
  • Prepare the business case
  • Conduct initial risk assessment
  • Prepare the decision package

Seminar Outline

Understanding stakeholders and organizational politics
  • Identifying and classifying stakeholders
  • Evaluating and leveraging politics
Developing and updating the business architecture
  • Creating/interpreting the strategic plan
  • Frameworks for business architecture evaluation
  • Establishing traceability
Conducting feasibility studies
  • Framework and requirements
  • Current state assessment
  • Identification of alternatives
  • Documentation
Defining the business opportunity
  • Developing a visioning document
  • Collaborative work sessions
  • Analysis of options
  • Future state identification
Preparing the business case
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Business case components
Conducting the initial risk assessment
  • Risk identification
  • risk analysis and prioritization
  • Preparing the decision package

*Additional registration discounts do not apply to this seminar.

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