Course Description
Business analysis has become a competency of critical importance to project management. Becoming certified as a business analysis (BA) expert can move your career in a fresh direction while opportunities for BAs are on the rise.
Inaccurate requirements gathering consistently ranks in the top three causes of project failure yet only half of the organizations have the resources in place to perform this function properly.
It’s time to become the certified expert your organization needs. If you work with stakeholders in defining requirements, shaping project outputs and driving intended business outcomes, the PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® will spotlight your valuable skills.
What you'll learn
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- Business Analysis– learn what a Business Analyst is, what they do, and how they do it.
- Learn how to properly initiate a project by creating a business case that aligns with the business objectives.
- A breakdown of project methodologies including traditional Waterfall and Agile frameworks.
- Learn to identify business problems and opportunities utilizing various tools and techniques such as interviews, observations, surveys, and more.
- Understand the basics of project requirements and the popular techniques used to elicit those details from your stakeholders.
- Gain an overview of various modelling diagrams to help you recognize and understand project documentation.
- Conduct requirement specification - including categorizing, deriving (breaking apart), prioritizing, and validating.
- Track requirements using a traceability artefact or tools, capturing the requirements' status, sources, and relationships (including dependencies to provide evidence that the requirements are delivered as stated.
- Validate the solution's test results, reports, and other test evidence against the requirements acceptance criteria r to determine whether the solution satisfies the requirements.
- Full Exam simulation to pass the PMI-PBA exam on the first attempt.
- Earn the 35 contact hours certificate to qualify for the PMI-PBA exam.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or the global equivalent.
- 36 months of business analysis experience.
- 35 contact hours of education in business analysis
Who should attend?
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- Project Managers.
- Business Analysts.
- Program Managers.
- Product Managers.
- IT professionals.
- Requirements Engineers.
- Business Managers.
