Course description
Business Analyst Four-Hour Bundle (Online)
This is a self-paced, online course bundle that allows students to choose four of our one-hour project management courses. (6 months to complete course)
- Defining Business Rules
- Gathering Requirements
- Managing Changing Project Requirements
- Planning the Business Analysis Approach
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Training content
Defining Business Rules
Lesson 1: Business Rules
- What are business rules?
- Business goals, policies and rules
Lesson 2: Benefits of Business Rules
- Increasing manageability of business processes
- Business rules are based on facts
Lesson 3: Business Rules and Requirements
- Relating rules and requirements
- Components of a business rule
- Example
- Cataloging business rules
Lesson 4: Classifying Business Rules
- Types of business rules
- Complex business rules
Lesson 5: Modeling Complex Business Rules
- Use case model
- Defining how business rules flow
Lesson 6: Developing Business Rules
- Best practices
- Business rules and models
- Consider using a tool
Lesson 7: Conclusion
- Next steps
Gathering Requirements
Lesson 1: Identifying Types of Requirements
- Defining a requirement
- Categorizing requirements
Lesson 2: Developing Effective Requirements
- Iterative requirements gathering
- Planning the requirements work
Lesson 3: Eliciting Requirements
- Defining elicitation
- Elicitation techniques
- Elicitation questions
Lesson 4: Analyzing Requirements
- Describing requirements analysis
- Reviewing requirements attributes
- Decomposing requirements top down
- Requirements modeling techniques
- Assumptions and constraints
Lesson 5: Conclusion
- Wrapping up
Managing Changing Project Requirements
Lesson 1: Baselining Requirements
- Starting from the known
- Requirements validation
- Characteristics of good requirements
- Requirements inspection
Lesson 2: Managing Changing Requirements
- Sources of changing requirements
- Components of requirements management
- The change control process
- Traditional versus agile processes
- Prioritization
Lesson 3: Using Traceability
- The importance of traceability
- Horizontal versus vertical traceabiltiy
- Traceability and ownership
Lesson 4: Conclusion
- Using software tools
- Summary
Planning the Business Analysis Approach
Lesson 1: Overview
- Defining business analysis
- Overview of a BA work plan
Lesson 2: Defining the requirements plan
- Justifying the plan
- Identifying the components
- Planning the details
- Overview on elicitation techniques
- Planning for approval
Lesson 3: Creating the requirements plan
- Scoping the activities
- Budgeting and resourcing
- Assessing risks
Lesson 4: Conclusion
- Wrapping it up
Costs
The cost of this training course includes all course materials.
Certification / Credits
Upon completion, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion with CEUs.
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Corporate College, a Division of Cuyahoga Community College
Founded in 2003, Corporate College offers Northeast Ohio businesses and individuals professional training and development, along with state-of-the-art meeting and conference space at Corporate College East in Warrensville Heights and Corporate College West in Westlake. Whether you are engaged with...