Business Analysis Classroom Courses

The course focuses on helping real people in the real world find and document use cases at varying, audience-focused levels of detail. From the high level perspective of the business use case to the nitty-gritty details of a detalled use case, the transformation of the use case will be made clear.

This training workshop delivers core competencies that every business systems analyst should possess. The program focuses on the skills of defining business problems, eliciting requirements from business subject matter experts, writing clearly understandable requirements, and communicating to all levels of the business within the project structure.

This training workshop presents techniques, methods, and tricks to help Business System Analysts model, analyze, and improve business and system processes. These techniques help the analysts and the business subject matter experts create business process models including workflow and Swimlane (activity) diagrams. It also teaches how to use the process models for analysis and system improvement.

This hands-on training workshop is designed to give you a time proven set of techniques, methods, and tricks to help you acquire, understand, document, and model business data. This course will give you both an intuitive top-down approach to data modeling and a rigorous bottom-up approach.

In this 2-day training workshop, you will learn from real live projects how to select the appropriate testing strategy, develop a set of usable test plans, identify an effective set of test cases and create test scripts for the real world.

This training workshop presents a set of techniques that are designed to help the business systems analyst ask the right questions at the beginning of the project and effectively structure requirements gathering meetings with the subject matter experts.

This course focuses on introducing the business analysis discipline. The concept, tools, techniques, and topics covered are relevant to anyone who is interested in this exciting and evolving field.

Managing the evolving business requirements on a project is a challenge facing business analysts everywhere. Ensuring that the requirements are captured, clarified, confirmed and communicated at the appropriate level of detail for the target audience is just one component of requirements management, albeit a major one. Beyond communication, requirements traceability, status tracking, and making the appropriate requirements reusable are activities that can be equally critical on information technology projects.

The techniques presented in this training workshop will help you define and manage requirements definition "projects". It offers a complete set of techniques for managing definition of business requirements on a small scale. All of the techniques scale to larger, more sophisticated efforts.

JRP (Joint Requirements Planning)/JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions produce high-quality deliverables in extremely short time frames. In this training workshop, you will learn how to plan, schedule, resource, and conduct efficient and effective JRP/JAD sessions. You can also add a JRP/JAD simulation day to this workshop.

This 2-day training experience focuses on the tools and techniques of enterprise analysis. Many of the techniques used in requirements elicitation will be used in enterprise analysis as well, however they are generally used at a higher level of responsibility and deliver protfolio as opposed to project results.

This 1-day course is designed specifically to help subject matter experts (SMEs) become more productive in their role as the source of business and stakeholder requirements for an information technology (IT) project.

Early project estimating: every client wants it, most information system professionals can’t do it, and everyone is suspicious of it. This training workshop introduces methods that yield reasonable early estimates and improve the communication of the factors that affect them.

This training workshop teaches a technique referred to as User Stories (not to be confused with use case) that offers a tried and tested solution to early requirements gathering. This technique helps business Systems Analysts focus on the business need or goals for the system and avoid the trap of considering the system and technical specifications too early.