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Business Analyst Boot Camp:
Defining Business and User Requirements

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Inteq’s 4-day Business Analyst Boot Camp provides participants with the full range of critical thinking skills, business analysis concepts and hands-on techniques to rapidly capture business requirements and to identify, thoroughly analyze and clearly specify forward facing business and user requirements.

Inteq's Business Analyst Boot Camp is about business and systems requirements - from a business perspective - and is seamlessly integrated and cohesively organized around Inteq's model-driven analysis framework for delivering agility, precision and consistency in business and systems analysis. 

Until now, text oriented analysis (bullet lists, indented outlines, etc.) prevailed as the primary technique to identify, analyze and specify business and system requirements. Text oriented analysis, however, is resource intensive. It often lacks standardization, depth and precision.

Course Outline and Topics

Day 1 and Day 2:

Executive Overview*: Foundation for Business and User Requirements

- Enterprise Analysis: Business Functions and Processes

- Model Driven Analysis and the MoDA/Framework™

- Effectiveness and Efficiency - Creating Customer and Business Value

- The 5 Essential Business Analysis Questions

- Business Requirements and Strategy Execution

- Agile Business Analysis

- *Added bonus: Bring your manager, director, or CIO to the Executive Overview session at no additional charge.

Capturing Business Requirements

- Capturing Business Requirements via Business Process Maps

- The Mechanics of Business Process Mapping

- Workflows and Cross Functional Analysis

- Analyzing Business Process Work Activities

Identifying User Requirements

- The 5 Underlying Patterns of Requirements

- Rapid Identification of Baseline Requirements

- Anchoring and Validating Baseline Requirements

- Applying Critical Thinking to Baseline Requirements

Analyzing User Requirements

- Activity Diagramming and the Interaction Flow of Events

- Identifying and Analyzing Alternative and Exception Flows

- Getting the Deep Requirements via Scenario Analysis

- Defining Forward Facing “to-be” Functionality

Applying Agile Analysis Techniques

- What is Agile Business Analysis?

- Agile Analysis Myths and Misconceptions

- Framework and Roadmap for Agile Analysis

- Agile Analysis Products and Deliverables

- Business Domain Pre-Analysis

Getting the Right Story “Right”

- Essential Elements of a User Story

- Getting Just-Enough Just-In-Time

- Creating User Stories from Use Case Scenarios

- Distilling Actionable INVEST Items from User Stories

- Assessing Customer Value and Defining Acceptance Criteria

Business Information Requirements

- Transactional Requirements versus Information Requirements

- Deconstructing Business Terms, Concepts and Facts

- Capturing Data-Oriented Business Rules

- Using State Transition for 360º Analysis

- Asking the Right Business Questions for Reporting and Metrics

Day 3 and Day 4:

Organizing, Specifying, Packaging and Communicating Requirements

- System Requirements Specification (SRS) via the Visual-Model Use-Case Approach

- Distilling Recurring Functionality

- Forming test cases and Tracing requirements

- Requirements Definition and Management (RDM Best Practices)

Managing the Moving Parts

- The Backlog: Balancing Business Value with Time, Talent, Quality, Risk and Budget

- Scrums & Sprints – Planning, Roles & Execution

- Managing Scope and Expectations

Requirements Case Study – Part 1

Participants develop a set of user stories to support a complex set of real-world business and system requirements. This case study provides an invaluable template that participants can leverage to jump-start agile analysis in their organization.

Requirements Case Study – Part 2

Part 2 builds-on and extents the business and user requirements identified and analyzed in Part 1.

Discovering Business Knowledge

- Light & Deep vs. Superficial Discovery

- Professional Analysis vs. Order Taking

- Key Sources of Business Knowledge

- Capturing Business Knowledge

Workshop Facilitation Skills

- The Dynamics of Workshops / Facilitated Sessions

- Identifying and Organizing the Right Participants

- Facilitation Techniques & Best Practices

- Capturing and Validating Session Knowledge

Practical Guidance

- Scaling Analysis to Different Types of Projects

- Leveraging Analysis via Reference Models 

- Take-Home Templates

- Getting Started Monday Morning

Who Should Attend?
  • Business and I.T. professionals at every level of experience can benefit from this course.
  • This course is specifically designed for:
    • Business Process Analysts
    • Business Analysts
    • Business Systems Analysts
    • Project Managers
    • IT Professionals
    • Subject Matter Experts
  • It is also suitable for anyone actively involved in the following activities:
    • Analyzing business processes
    • Discovering business requirements
    • Identifying, analyzing, and specifying business and user system requirements.
Prerequisites:

None. Business Analyst Boot Camp provides a comprehensive, cohesive approach to business and systems analysis, regardless of your background and experience.

Learning Options:
  • Live: Inteq’s Business Analyst Boot Camp can be tailored to your organization’s training objectives and can be combined with other Inteq courses to create a hybrid training program.
  • Enterprise training for the entire organization.
Course Length:
4 Days, 28 IIBA Professional Development (PD) Hours. Business Analysis Boot Camp is fully aligned with the BABOK® Version 3.0 Business Analysis Body of Knowledge – including the Agile Extension to BABOK® and are endorsed for CBAP® Certification and CCBA® Certification.

"Really enjoyed the training….already proving to be useful in my current project. James [Proctor] was engaging very informative. I would say this was the best use of training funds that I have spent in my nine years here at Kansas State"

Kansas State University

“My team mates and I were fortunate to be able to attend James Proctor’s Business Systems Analysis and Business Process Management training and it was excellent!”

Pacific Northwest Division

"This was my first live virtual learning experience. Excellent course and very effective delivery via the virtual format."

BFS

"Really enjoyed the training….already proving to be useful in my current project. James [Proctor] was engaging very informative. I would say this was the best use of training funds that I have spent in my nine years here at Kansas State"

Kansas State University

“My team mates and I were fortunate to be able to attend James Proctor’s Business Systems Analysis and Business Process Management training and it was excellent!”

Pacific Northwest Division

"This was my first live virtual learning experience. Excellent course and very effective delivery via the virtual format."

BFS

What's Included

  • 28 IIBA Professional Development (PD) Hours
  • Personalized Certificate of Completion
  • Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
  • PU (Professional Development) credits 
  • Electronic Comprehensive Course Workbook
  • Supplemental Course Materials
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