Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
EDSI-1056
Organization's ID:
CYJ/CYJv/GDR520
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
Face-to-Face and Online: 1 week (28 hours). Self-paced: 6 weeks (28 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 2 Project Management or Management
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to enable participants to practice business analysis as it relates to the analysis and documentation of requirements. The course familiarizes participants with the core knowledge and skills required to identify and document user requirements. It also addresses how these requirements are managed throughout the life cycle of a project. This course is designed for business analysts who need to update or formalize their roles, authorities, accountabilities, and activities; project managers who incorporate the business analysis role into their functional activity sets; business managers and users who interface with business analysts; and systems analysts, technical leads, database analysts, and software developers who must use requirements as the basis for solution specification, development, and implementation.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explain the critical role of the business analyst (BA) with respect to requirements elicitation and project management
  • Develop and validate solution scope and quality standards
  • Create the business architecture baseline using appropriate modeling techniques
  • Plan the requirements elicitation and analysis to maximize efficiency and estimate the required effort
  • Analyze various kinds of requirements into a complete, coherent, and organized requirements document
  • Build consensus in order to validate and finalize the requirements in the business requirements document
  • Determine the most appropriate techniques for eliciting requirements at different points in the analysis cycle

General Topics:

  • The role of requirements elicitation
  • Documenting the requirements elicitation
  • Establishing solution vision, scope, and quality
  • Modeling requirements at the enterprise and user levels
  • Developing the requirements work plan
  • Conducting the requirements elicitation
  • Developing the business requirements document
  • Validating requirements
  • Consensus-building
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Examinations
  • Other
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers
Supplemental Materials