Description
Description
The Bringing Business Solutions to Life workshop equips Business Analysts with the skills to oversee the entire project lifecycle—from initial analysis to implementation. This interactive two-day course covers core fundamentals, technical design, quality assurance, and solution deployment. Participants will gain a deep understanding of their role in system implementation, ensuring requirements are fully realized and successfully integrated. With a hands-on approach, this workshop provides tools and techniques that Business Analysts can apply in later project phases to drive successful implementations.
Training Objectives
- Participants will gain the ability to:
- Create and utilize traceability matrices to track requirements.
- Evaluate and compare solution alternatives for implementation.
- Develop user interfaces using storyboards.
- Execute effective user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Perform impact analysis to assess current and future states.
- Identify key tasks for successful implementation including process system and organizational changes.
- Determine solution readiness for deployment.
Course Outline
- Competencies Covered<
- Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring<
- Planning business analysis approach<
- Requirements Life Cycle Management<
- Tracing and managing requirements<
- Requirements Analysis & Design Definition<
- Validating requirements<
- Solution Evaluation<
- Measuring solution performance<
- Underlying Competencies<
- Analytical thinking & problem-solving<
- Course Outline Summary<
- Introduction<
- Understanding the Business Analyst’s role throughout the project lifecycle<
- Case study setup and review of workshop objectives<
- The Fundamentals<
- Key factors for project success<
- Managing changing requirements during development and testing<
- Introducing requirements validation and traceability<
- Creating traceability matrices<
- Measuring project success with performance indicators<
- Technical Design<
- Identifying technical solution alternatives<
- Evaluating build vs. buy decisions<
- Analyzing design recommendations for UI and technical solutions<
- Testing<
- Supporting the testing phase as a Business Analyst<
- Reviewing different test types<
- Creating structured test cases<
- Running a simulated user acceptance testing (UAT) session<
- Determining solution readiness based on test outcomes<
- Implementation<
- Business Analyst's role in implementation<
- Performing impact analysis of the current vs. future state<
- Identifying transition tasks to the new state<
- Managing process, system, and organizational changes<
- Follow-Through<
- Ensuring post-implementation success<
- Presenting a go/no-go recommendation<
- Leading a stakeholder meeting to introduce the new solution<
- This workshop provides Business Analysts with the essential tools and strategies to successfully implement business solutions and drive organizational change.



