Business Analysis Web-based Seminars

How to Estimate Early in a Project - I+II a How long will it take you?a is one of the scariest questions that business analysts have to answer. This question is always posed before you know what you are going to have to do to define the requirements. You have not yet done the analysis upon which to base your answer. Given that uncertainty, it is no wonder that whatever answer you come up with will be wrong, leading to a missed delivery  more...

How to Find and Build Test Cases from Business Requirements Test cases are situations taken from real life that will put a new or modified information technology solution through its paces. Business test cases should be designed to find existing errors and to increase your confidence in the applicationa ™s ability to survive the real world of production. The key to a successful suite of test cases is to use a wide variety of methods to discover and  more...

How to Define and Document Use Cases A business use case diagram is a visual tool that shows interaction between the environment and an evolving information technology solution. A single business use case is a textual tool for representing how individual end-users and other involved parties or systems (collectively referred to as "actors") will interact with the proposed system. Knowing why you need a business use case, when it  more...

How to Analyze and Improve Business Data ...iagrams). It is designed to give you a time-proven set of business analysis techniques, methods, and tricks to help you analyze an existing business data model, create a new business data model, and extract informational requirements essential to the success of your information technology projects. Note: This instructor-led course delivered in two virtual sessions via the Internet covers the  more...

How to Build Business Data Models Business data represents the atomic level of information systems. It forms the basis upon which everything else depends. In a very real sense if you get the business data right, the rest will follow. If you get the business data wrong, the system may never recover. In order to get the majority of the business data right, it is essential to have a picture of the data in form of a business data  more...

How to Plan Business Analysis Activities and Manage Risks ...business analysis activities is often perceived as a project manager responsibility. Indeed, what makes the business analysis activities of a project any different than any other activity? Because study after study indicate that missed or misunderstood requirements are the number one cause of project failure, paying special attention to these critical areas would seem to be a good idea. This  more...

How to Track and Monitor Business Analysis Activities ...business analysis activities have been planned and scheduled, tracking the activities and monitoring progress on the project can consume a lot of the time allocated for business analysis. If not done properly, these activities can cause you to spend more time working in a project manager capacity and neglecting the requirements gathering activities that are the prime responsibility of the  more...

How to Elicit Business System Requirements It is very early in your project. How will you, the business system analyst, and the business subject matter experts (SMEs) determine what the system should do when you are finished? There are many people involved, each with different expectations and needs. How can you deal with these difficulties, gather reasonable requirements quickly, and not waste the effort? This training workshop offers  more...

How to Write Effective Business Requirements ...pret as intended and use to design the solution. This business analysis online training workshop provides a proven set of core business analysis techniques, methods and tricks to help business professionals create, clarify, and confirm business, stakeholder, solution, and transition requirements (i. e., meaning the kind of business requirements that the IT professionals need to do their job  more...

How to Analyze Sets of Business Requirements ... be able to contribute to the end product. This online business analysis training workshop presents several requirement analysis techniques that business analysts and subject matter experts can use to identify requirements and phrases that might be misunderstood by the various target audiences. It assumes that you know how to write effective, measurable business requirements (or that you are  more...

How to Manage Changing Requirements Managing requirements change has been a major challenge even for the best-run projects. Keeping track of how the changing business environment impacts ongoing projects and production applications can be a nightmare without proper tools and techniques. The concept of requirements management is not new but with an increase in the use of off-shore developers and off-the-shelf solutions, it has become  more...

How to Package and Communicate Business Requirements One of the primary jobs of the business analyst is bridging the communication gap between the business community and the technology experts. Business, stakeholder, solution, and transition requirements describe what information technology has to deliver but making sure that both parties agree on just what these requirements mean is the real challenge. This virtual workshop presents concepts,  more...

How to Build Business Process Models Business processes are what organizations do. Whether documented or not, whether designed or not, whether understood or not, nothing gets done until someone (or a the systema ) does it a that is what business processes are all about. They are a combination of business operating procedures, business rules, business data, and supporting technology. Yet, many business processes are undocumented,  more...

How to Analyze and Improve Business Processes Business process analysis is one of the most critical business analyst skills. It is the activity that uses business process models for improving business processes without putting your project a or your organization a at risk. This online business analyst workshop assumes you know how to create business process models (context, data flow, activity, and swimlane diagrams) and builds on that  more...