Today's business environment demands that organizations run as efficiently as possible to remain competitive in the marketplace. Whether you are fulfilling your role as a business analyst, developing and gathering requirements, or constructing a business case, a solid understanding of both the business issues and the technical specifications needed to achieve results is essential to ensure organizational expectations are met.
This course provides the foundational knowledge of the role and function of the business analyst. In this course, you learn how to conduct a business needs analysis to solidify stakeholder requirements, apply business analysis techniques to identify key problems and potential opportunities, and evaluate and prioritize the feasibility of business initiatives.
Choose ONE of the following Core Courses. Both courses provide the skills to write well-formed and tested user requirements. Course 218 is for those implementing requirements for software development. Course 315 is for those identifying user requirements in a non-software development environment.
This course provides the necessary skills to capture software requirements using clearly defined processes. You are immersed in a user requirements environment, providing you with the practical experience to build a use case-based requirements model, model user interfaces using mock-ups and develop a data model.
In this course, you participate in an immersive, simulated case study, providing you with the practical skills necessary to write well-formed and validated user requirements. You learn how to organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document, prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project, and analyze requirements with a process mapping methodology.
In this course, you learn how to analyze, create and communicate a successful business case to meet your organization's unique needs. Through an immersive case study, you gain practical skills to construct a clear business case that optimizes business decisions, predicts the financial and business consequences and maximizes opportunities. You also take away business case tools and templates for real-world application.
