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The Business Analysis Foundation Course is an instructor-led, hands-on certification training course. This course will provide participants Information on the fundamentals of business analysis to provide an overview of the roles and responsibilities of a business analyst. The course covers the basics of business analysis tools and techniques and how to use these business analysis skills to gather requirements and find solutions that deliver better business results. You will learn the key concepts, vocabulary, and stakeholders that business analysts need to be able to work well with.

This is an internationally recognized qualification useful for anyone who needs to understand Business Analysis, including Business Analysts, Business Managers, and their staff, Business Change Managers, Project Managers, and Systems Developers. This course comprehensively covers the BCS syllabus and prepares students for the Foundations of Business Analysis exam.

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Pre-requisites

  • There are no formal prerequisites for taking this course or taking the exam

Exam

  • Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).
  • Business Analysis Foundation Course
  • The certification exam can be registered and attempted within 3 months of course/module completion at our training centre on weekdays during normal business hours (excludes public holidays)

Books

  • Course material for Business Analysis Foundation Course provided

Delivery Method

  • Instructor-led Training (ILT)
  • Hands-On Labs

Skills Gained

  • Learn the basics of business analysis tools and techniques
  • Understand what business analysts do
  • How to initiate a project
  • Best practices for gathering requirements
  • Learn the key concepts, vocabulary, and stakeholders’ business analysts need.
  • Strategies for monitoring deliverables and test results
  • Become familiar with the key concepts, vocabulary, and stakeholders that underpin the work of a business analyst.
  • Strategies for monitoring results and testing

Why go for Business Analysis Foundation Course

This certificate is a prerequisite for such jobs:

  • Business Analysts
  • Business managers
  • Business change managers
  • Project managers and other IT service management professions

Audience

  • Business Analyst
  • Business managers
  • Team members
  • Project Managers
  • Students
  • All who want to do business analysis

Learning Objectives

Participants of the BCS Business Analysis Foundation Course will learn about:

  • Definition of Business Analysis
  • Competencies of a business analyst
  • The strategic context of business analysis
  • Service framework for business analysis
  • Business case study
  • Stakeholder analysis and management
  • Improvement of business services and processes
  • Definition of solutions
  • Development of business scenarios
  • Requirements definition
  • Documenting, modelling, validating and managing requirements
  • Deployment of requirements and business solution

Course Outline

  • Describe the business change lifecycle
  • List the following principles of business analysis
  • Describe the variants of the business analyst role
  • Explain the concept of the T-shaped Professional
  • Identify the three areas of business analysis competency
  • Describe business analysis and the strategic context
  • Define the factors assessed using PESTLE to analyse an external environment
  • Identify the elements of the VMOST technique used to analyse an internal environment
  • Describe the following elements of performance measurement
  • Describe the structure of a SWOT analysis
  • Describe the POPIT and Business Model Canvas techniques used in strategy execution
  • Situation investigation and problem analysis
  • Feasibility assessment and business case development
  • Business process improvement
  • Requirement’s definition
  • Business acceptance testing
  • Business change deployment
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Understand the purpose of workshops
  • Understand the purpose of observation
  • Understand the purpose of interviews
  • Understand the purpose of scenarios
  • Understand the purpose of prototyping
  • Define user role analysis
  • Define quantitative approaches including: Surveys or questionnaires, Activity sampling, Document analysis
  • Describe the Rich pictures Mind maps, two diagrammatic techniques used to record a business situation
  • Identify stakeholder categories using the stakeholder wheel
  • Describe the Power/Interest grid technique to analyse stakeholders
  • Describe stakeholder responsibilities using RASCI (RACI) technique
  • Explain the business process hierarchy
  • Describe aspects of the event response level (UML activity diagrams, or process swimlane diagrams)
  • Describe aspect of the actor-task level (Tasks writing the UML activity diagram)
  • Analysis considerations at actor-task level (Steps or ‘work instructions’ supporting each Task level)
  • Understand the concepts of the as-is and to-be process models
  • Identify generic approaches to improving business processes
  • Define the purpose of customer journey maps
  • Describe the gap analysis process
  • Explain the use of POPIT in gap analysis
  • Describe the process for developing options
  • Describe the purpose of design thinking
  • Describe the lifecycle for a business case in business case development
  • Identify the areas of feasibility assessment
  • Define the structure and contents of a business case
  • Understand categories of costs and benefits
  • Understand the importance of an early impact assessment
  • Understand a business risk assessment in relation to the options presented
  • Explain the purpose of the following investment appraisal techniques; payback, discounted cash flow (net present value) and internal rate of return
  • List the key features relevant to the production of a business case within an Agile contex
  • Explain the requirements engineering framework
  • Understand the role of different actors in requirements engineering
  • Understand the categories of requirements, business, technical, functional and non-functional
  • Describe the hierarchy of requirements
  • Describe requirements elicitation techniques
  • Understand requirements analysis, including; requirements filters, INVEST, MoSCoW and Business rules
  • Understand requirements documentation styles including; text-based documentation styles and Diagrammatic documentation styles
  • Define the structure of the business requirements document
  • Understand the importance of the requirements catalogue
  • Describe the format of user stories
  • Describe the elements of the use case diagram used to model functional requirements
  • Describe the elements of a class model used to model data
  • Describe the product backlog in modelling and documentation in an Agile environment
  • Formal requirements validation
  • The activities in the Agile requirements validation process
  • Describe traceability and change control in relation to requirements management
  • Describe the following types of delivery lifecycle; waterfall lifecycle, the “V” model, the incremental lifecycle and the iterative lifecycle (Agile)
  • Explain the role of the business analyst in the business change lifecycle
  • Describe the role of the business analyst during the design, development and test stages
  • Describe the SARAH (a person focused organisational change management tool) and a business readiness assessment technique
  • Describe how the benefits plan is used in the realisation stage
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