Description
Description
Join this intensive 3-day foundation course on the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Certification to kickstart your preparation for the IIBA ECBA, CCBA, and CBAP exams. Dive deep into the interactive exploration of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) v3 Guide. This course serves as the initial segment of a customizable training program designed to equip you for the certification path of your choosing.
Covering the comprehensive study of knowledge areas, tasks, and techniques outlined in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide) version 3, this BABOK certification training correlates directly with practical applications in your own projects. Attendees will benefit from practice exams included in the course to thoroughly prepare for the IIBA exam and achieve ECBA certification. Additionally, participants will receive access to Ratio practice questions for a duration of 3 months.
Training Objectives
- Navigate and absorb the BABOK® Guide
- Apply BABOK® Guide best practises in the context of a project
- Immerse yourself in the BABOK® Guide knowledge areas
- Connect the dots between Business Analysis (BA) tasks and techniques
Course Outline
- Creating a Solid Base for Business Analysis<br />
- Distinguishing between typical BA projects<
- Agile<br />
- Business intelligence<br />
- Information technology<br />
- Business architecture<br />
- Business process<br />
- Determining the role and focus of BA based on project type<br />
- Identifying underlying competencies<
- Recognising behavioural and thinking paradigms<br />
- Highlighting communication and interaction skills<br />
- Describing key concepts<
- Establishing the vocabulary<br />
- BACCM<br />
- Stakeholders<br />
- Requirements<br />
- Designs<
- Strategy Analysis<br />
- Researching the business organisation in context to new change<
- Performing situational state analysis: current vs. future<br />
- Listing the business drivers and the problem/opportunity<br />
- Understanding analytical methodologies and approaches<
- Defining and analysing potential adverse events<br />
- Carrying out an enterprise readiness assessment<br />
- SWOT<br />
- KPIs<br />
- Functional decomposition<
- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring<br />
- Choosing a BA approach and establishing governance<
- Predictive vs. adaptive<br />
- Level of formality<br />
- Timing<br />
- Documenting and communicating requirements changes<br />
- Understanding the community of stakeholders<
- Conducting a stakeholder analysis<br />
- Communicating: details, frequency, modality<br />
- Personas<br />
- Rules analysis<br />
- Organisational modeling<
- Elicitation and Collaboration<br />
- Preparing and conducting elicitation sessions<
- Developing an elicitation activity plan<br />
- Collaboration<br />
- Research<br />
- Experiments<br />
- Capturing accurate and consistent information<
- Comparing elicitation results to sources<br />
- Ensuring a shared understanding of information<br />
- Brainstorming<br />
- Interviews<br />
- Stakeholder maps<
- Requirements Analysis and Design Definition<br />
- Specifying and modelling requirements and designs<
- Creating matrices and diagrams<br />
- Collecting and representing attributes<br />
- Implementing appropriate levels of abstraction<br />
- Process modelling<br />
- Sequence diagrams<br />
- State modelling<br />
- Structuring and organising requirements and designs<
- Illustrating flows of inputs, information, and outputs<br />
- Checking for correctness and completeness<br />
- Evaluating against solution scope<br />
- Verifying and validating specified and modelled requirements<br />
- Use cases<br />
- Data flow diagrams<br />
- Non-functional analysis<
- Requirements Life Cycle Management<br />
- Defining types and deriving relationships<
- Finding relationships between requirements<br />
- Choosing prioritisation criteria and requirements states<br />
- Approving requirements and designs<
- Managing conflicts and issues<br />
- Gaining consensus and communicating approval<br />
- Item tracking<br />
- Workshops<br />
- Acceptance and evaluation criteria<
- Solution Evaluation<br />
- Determining if what was specified solves the business problem<
- Recording and applying solution performance measurements<br />
- Identifying and analysing limitations in the solution and the enterprise<br />
- Recommending alternatives and actions to increase value<
- Listing and understanding external and internal factors<br />
- Considering solution replacement or retirement<br />
- Decision analysis<br />
- Organisational modelling<br />
- Risk analysis<
- Taking Your Next Step<br />
- Preparing to take a certification exam<br />
- Evaluating where you are<br />
- Considering Courses 3516 and 3517
