Description

Description

This BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice course guides you through a comprehensive business analysis process that considers all aspects of a business system: processes, people, organizational context, and technology. It begins by emphasizing the importance of a holistic approach, providing insights into strategic context and project discipline essential for effective business analysis.

Throughout the course, you will learn to comprehend the business situation and associated challenges, analyze stakeholder perspectives, model business activities, propose potential solutions to business problems, and develop a compelling business case for these solutions. A thorough end-to-end process is crucial as it helps mitigate re-work costs often incurred due to inadequate upfront analysis.

Furthermore, this course prepares you to successfully complete the BCS Business Analysis Practice exam upon its conclusion.

Training Objectives

• This course is part of a series to earn an International Diploma in Business Analysis
• The BCS
• The Chartered Institute for IT
• offers this internationally recognised certification
• enabling you to take your skills worldwide. The four modules required to apply for this certification include one foundation level course and three practitioner level courses:
• BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
• BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice Training
• BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering Training
• The International Diploma requires a 50-minute oral examination with two examiners. The questions will require you to apply your business analysis knowledge and understanding to scenarios described by the oral examiners. For additional information
• see BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
• Upon passing your exam
• BCS will contact you to activate your membership. Once activated
• you will be a BCS Associate Member and access the wealth of benefits and support to help you in your career.
• BCS Associate membership provides exclusive access to resources
• content and opportunities that will enrich your career.
• Note: This offer is only available once to each exam candidate. Exam candidates who have previously benefited from free Associate Membership will not be eligible for this offer again
• even if they take another qualifying BCS exam.

Course Outline

• Module 1: The Rationale for Business Analysis<br />
• Recognising the business change life-cycle<br />
• Clarifying the role of the business analyst<br />
• Examining other roles in business change<br />
• Understanding the framework for business analysis<
• Module 2: Understanding the Strategic Context<br />
• Internal and external analysis<
• Analysing the Internal analysis<br />
• Surveying the business landscape with external analysis<br />
• Linking to the internal and external business environment analysis<
• Performing a SWOT analysis<br />
• Using a SWOT analysis<br />
• Identifying the strategic context<br />
• Executing strategy<
• Balanced Business Scorecard<br />
• Recognising Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators<br />
• Critical success factors and key performance indicators<
• Identifying Critical Success Factors (CSFs)<br />
• Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPI)<br />
• Setting performance targets<br />
• Deploying the balanced business scorecard as a frame<
• Module 3: Business Analysis Project Discipline<br />
• Identifying the Terms of Reference and/or Project Initiation Documentation<br />
• Clarifying business and project objectives<
• Module 4: Understanding the Current Situation<br />
• Stakeholder identification<
• Stakeholder wheel<br />
• Other potential sources of information<br />
• Investigative techniques<
• Investigating the current business situation<br />
• Interviews<br />
• Observation<br />
• Workshops<br />
• Document Analysis<br />
• Focus Groups<br />
• Questionnaires/Surveys<br />
• The Business Analysis Process Model<
• Stages of the business analysis process model<br />
• Considering the perspectives<br />
• Analysing the needs<br />
• Evaluating the options<br />
• Defining the requirements<br />
• Investigating the situation<
• Interviewing stakeholders<br />
• Effective Requirements Workshops<br />
• Representing a holistic view of the business situation<
• Taking a holistic view<br />
• Using various documentation techniques<br />
• Rich pictures<br />
• Mind maps<br />
• Fishbone diagrams<
• Module 5: Stakeholder Analysis and Management<br />
• Identifying, categorising and analysing stakeholders<
• Defining stakeholder types<br />
• Deploying the Power/Interest Grid<br />
• Stakeholder management strategies<
• Levels of power and interest<br />
• Building a communication strategy<br />
• Understanding stakeholder perspectives<
• Analysing stakeholders with CATWOE<br />
• Creating business activity model<
• Module 6: Modelling Business Processes and Requirements<br />
• Creating a process model<
• Pinpointing business events<br />
• Developing the business process model<br />
• Modelling system functions and data<
• Use case diagrams<br />
• Entity Relationship Diagrams and Class Models<
• Module 7: Defining the Solution<br />
• Gap analysis<
• Identifying areas of concern<br />
• Analysing the gap with POPIT<br />
• Introduction to Business Architecture<
• Definition of Business Architecture<br />
• Business Architecture techniques<
• Module 8: Making a Business and Financial Case<br />
• Structuring the business case<
• Identifying and shortlisting options for business change<
• Identifying and categorising costs and benefits<
• Tangible and intangible costs and benefits<br />
• Investment appraisal techniques<br />
• Identifying and categorising risks<
• Identifying risks<br />
• Assessing the impact of the risks<br />
• Assessing the probability of the risks<br />
• Risk management approaches<br />
• Identifying impacts<
• Organisational culture<br />
• Organisational behaviour