Business analyst overview
- Areas of knowledge.
- Roles, skills and techniques.
- Requirements and stakeholders.
Exercise
Recognize the categories of requirements.
Planning and monitoring
- Business Analyst ("BA") approach.
- Stakeholder engagement
- Governance.
- Information management.
Exercise
Analyze a UML activity diagram.
Elicitation and collaboration
- Preparing and performing the elicitation.
- Confirming and communicating the results.
- Collaborating with stakeholders.
Exercise
Complete the documentation of a use case identified during an elicitation.
Requirement lifecycle management
- Tracking the requirements, making a coverage matrix.
- Maintaining requirements.
- Prioritizing requirements, decision analysis.
- Evaluating the changes.
- Approving requirements.
Exercise
Determine the tasks to be performed in order to track and monitor the requirements.
Strategic Analysis
- Conducting a SWOT analysis.
- Defining the future situation.
- Making a model of the scope.
- Assessing risks.
- Change management strategy.
Exercise
Recognize the assumptions, constraints, risks and problems posed by a change. Analyze a SWOT matrix.
Requirements analysis and design definition
- Specifying and modeling requirements.
- Verifying and validating the requirements.
- Defining the architecture of the requirements.
- Analyzing the potential value of the solution.
Exercise
Fill out a data dictionary. Analyze a UML activity diagram.
Assessing the solution
- Analyzing solution performance metrics.
- Evaluating the limitations of the solution and the company.
- How to increase the value of the solution.
Exercise
Recognize non-functional requirements that document quality criteria and business rules.
PMI-PBA® certification preparation
- BA For Practitioners.
- Behavioral characteristics of BA.
- Software applications. Project management.
- Preparation for certification (pre-requisites, registration, etc.).
Role-playing
Practice on PMI-PBA® exam questions. Correction.