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Provided by Boston University Corporate Education Center
Prepare yourself for career growth with Boston University s new Certificate in Applied Business Analysis. With a focused curriculum taught by skilled business analysis practitioners, the program helps you acquire new skills and apply them immediately to your career. Our format is specifically designed for today s professional, who can t afford to take time away from an already crowded schedule.
Our students come from many disciplines including information technology, health care, telecommunications, financial and retail services. They are motivated to contribute and to learn more every day.
What s Unique About BUCEC s Certificate in Applied Business Analysis?
Our program focuses on a real-world case study format. This unique format allows tools and techniques taught in class to be practiced within the framework of your current business. This program will identify problems currently faced in business and work to solve them throughout the program. The format provides the chance to try techniques without the expense or risk to your company or projects.
Throughout the program, we will address key topics in business analysis, including:
- Requirements Gathering
- Project Management for the BA
- Use Cases
- Object and Data Modeling
- Workflow Modeling
- UML
- Quality Assurance
This program is not a classroom lecture. You will work individually and in teams on case studies that teach you what you need to accomplish at each stage of your project. The team environment amplifies and accelerates your learning. It also prepares you to manage your projects in the work environment.
Business Analysis Certification and Body of Knowledge
The curriculum is designed to give you a foundation in all the areas of the Body of Knowledge as described in the latest draft from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). The knowledge areas include:
1. Enterprise Analysis
2. Requirements Planning and Management
3. Requirements Gathering
4. Requirements Analysis and Documentation
5. Requirements Communication
6. Requirements Implementation
In addition to providing you with a Certificate in Applied Business Analysis from Boston University, this program will help prepare you to sit for the IIBA s Certified Business Analysis Professional certification when it becomes available in late 2006 or early 2007.
Who should attend
- Entry-level IT Business Analysts
- Self-taught IT Business Analysts wanting to fill in the gaps and put all the pieces together
- Systems Analysts and programmers interested in expanding their role into the business area
- IT Project Managers with responsibility for business analysis
Topics Covered
- Introduction to the Business Analyst s Role and Interview Techniques
- Introduction to Use Cases
- The Kick Off Meeting
- Analyzing Business Use Cases
- Structuring System Use Cases - employing System Use Case Diagrams and advanced features to organize requirements for maximum reuse
- Documenting System Use Cases/ Context and Basic Flow
- Documenting Alternate and Exception Flows
- Documenting inclusion, extension and generalized use cases
- Documenting Requirements for Legacy Systems using Structured Analysis
- Gathering Business Data Requirements
- Static Analysis and the BA
- Analyzing Business Classes
- Analyzing Sub-types (Generalizations and transient roles)
- Analyzing Aggregations, Associations and Multiplicities
- Discovering attributes and operations
- Static Modeling during Initiation
- Static Modeling during Analysis
- Data Modeling and Data Warehouses
- The BA Role in Testing
- Workflow Modeling and the Business Analyst
- Essential Concepts of Workflow Modeling
- Activity Diagrams
- State Machine Diagrams
- Text Documentation
- Other Workflow Modeling Notations
- Introduction to IT Project Management
- Guided Tour of an Iterative Project
- Initiation Phase - Initial Activities
- Initiation Phase - Analysis
- Initiation Phase Risk Management
- The Analysis Phases
- Execution, Test and Close-out Phases
- Overview of Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies
Note: most evening classes cover two topics; most day classes cover 4 topics
Training Avaliability and Delivery
| This is primarily ilt training |  | This class may be available at a classroom in Boston, MA,
or at one of these training facilities:
Braintree, MA
Boston, MA
Tyngsboro, MA
Boston, MA
Waltham, MA
Peterborough, NH
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 | Contact Boston University Corporate Education Center for more information |
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| Schedule: | 10 days | | Training Presented in: | English |
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