Online Business Analysis eLearning - Training Resources

Core Concepts in Business Analysis ...Business analysis is a set of knowledge, tasks, and techniques used to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems. These solutions can be the specific development of a new system component or, more significantly, the redesign of a process or organizational structure. Those who practice business analysis are typically known as business analysts. In this course, learners  more...

Enterprise Analysis and Making a Business Case ...prise analysis is a key knowledge area in the practice of business analysis. During enterprise analysis, the business analyst identifies business opportunities, builds a business architecture framework, and determines the best project investment path for the enterprise. From this, the business analyst puts forward a business case, which provides an overall justification for the project. In this  more...

Introduction to Requirements Planning ...he requirements planning and management knowledge area of business analysis. It outlines the fundamental tasks of planning and managing requirements and outlines the general considerations that the business analyst should make when planning requirements. The course also examines how to classify roles within a project, outlines the techniques used to draw up a list of stakeholders, and  more...

Requirements Planning and Management Business analysts must plan and closely manage requirements for a project in accordance with existing standards in an organization. First, they must identify key roles and stakeholders and decide on a work division strategy. Then, they are ready to handle a key aspect of the business analyst role - that of working with requirements, which is the focus of this course. Working with requirements  more...

Eliciting Requirements ...evelopment of a system. It is a pivotal knowledge area of business analysis and, as such, the business analyst must be able to elicit requirements that are complete, clear, correct, and consistent. In this course, learners will examine the preparation tasks, recommended practices, and proven techniques associated with eliciting requirements. This course is aligned with the International  more...

Analyzing Requirements Using Models There are various types of solution development methodologies that a business analyst must consider when modeling software or business systems. These approaches include business process, object-oriented, and structured analysis methodologies. Though the decision of which methodology to use depends on the culture and standards of the organization, a business analyst can only properly represent the  more...

Refining and Documenting Requirements Once business analysts model the behavior, processes, and usage of a solution to a business problem, they must analyze and document the requirements. To do so, they must compile accurate definitions and descriptions of the solution to allow the project team to correctly implement it. This course will examine how to refine user and functional requirements, quality of service requirements,  more...

Communicating and Implementing Requirements A business analyst expresses the output of a requirements analysis and documentation phase by presenting, communicating, and gaining approval of the requirements from project stakeholders. Once this solution design is agreed upon, the business analyst assists with detailed design work, testing and quality assurance activities, and supporting solution implementation. This course will explore  more...