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Creating a High-Impact Work Plan for Business Analysts

 
Course: 912   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17   CPE: 17
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop a work plan that successfully addresses the needs of a business analyst (BA)
  • Define the goals and deliverables of the initiative and develop the work charter
  • Organize, structure and schedule work using breakdown structures, network diagrams and bar charts
  • Adopt common and effective techniques to estimate task work and duration that reflect initiative uncertainty
  • Identify, analyze and manage risks that affect scheduling
  • Keep the work on track and manage key controls while meeting stakeholder expectations

Course Benefits

Whether starting from an initiative or entering a project after it has been established, business analysts must seamlessly integrate their work into the planning process. To do this successfully requires a well developed and executed work plan. In this course, you learn practical project management methods, tools and techniques to adapt a work plan to the needs of your initiative and its stakeholders.

Who Should Attend

Business analysts, those who perform the functions of a business analyst or those who may be required to contribute to or lead a project.

RealityPlus™

An evolving case study immerses you in an authentic project environment, providing practical experience in building a business analysis work plan. Activities include:
  • Developing a stakeholder communication plan
  • Creating well-defined work tasks
  • Calculating the critical path
  • Estimating tasks within appropriate tolerances
  • Securing resource commitments from stakeholders
  • Assessing and communicating risks
  • Communicating and presenting your work plan
  • Creating a personal action plan for future use

Related Courses

 
RealityPlusTM is a trademark of Learning Tree International, Inc. BABOK is a registered trademark owned by International Institute of Business Analysis. 		 

Training Dates

Apr 3 - 5Rockville, MD
Apr 11 - 13New York 

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Creating a High-Impact Work Plan for Business Analysts

 
Course: 912   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17   CPE: 17
 
 
Course 912 Content
 

The Role of the Business Analyst

Defining your role

  • Comparing the BABOK® and PMBOK® Guide frameworks
  • Pinpointing where you are in the process life cycle
  • Identifying that your work can be defined as a project
  • Establishing your relationship with the project manager

Making a commitment to the project

  • Gathering information to get started quickly
  • Determining the requirements for effective personal management

The Planning Process

Key steps of planning

  • Exploring the makeup of a solid BA plan
  • Creating the stakeholder communication system
  • Synchronizing your plan with an overall project plan

Jump-starting the process

  • Formulating the right questions
  • Eliciting work constraints
  • Assessing impact on business

Influences on the planning process

  • Juggling the triple constraint
  • Development methodologies
  • Stakeholder concerns

Communicating effectively

  • Fostering relationships and trust
  • Discovering your communication style
  • Delivering your message for optimal results

Building the Work Plan

Initiating your work

  • Conducting stakeholder analysis
  • Determining objectives
  • Defining the scope of work
  • Creating a work charter for approval

Planning the tasks

  • Generating a task list
  • Developing the work and organizational breakdown structures
  • Listing task attributes and characteristics
  • Devising acceptance criteria

Constructing task dependencies

  • Identifying the critical path and calculating slack with network diagrams
  • Making resource and scheduling decisions using bar charts

Assigning resources

  • Assessing resource requirements
  • Utilizing a responsibility assignment matrix

Outcomes of the Planning Process

  • Deriving the schedule using a Gantt Chart
  • Calculating the budget

Creating Accurate Estimates

Estimating effort, duration and costs

  • What constitutes a good estimate?
  • Identifying standard estimating techniques

Key considerations that affect your estimates

  • Collaborating to encourage ownership of the estimate
  • Incorporating a WBS
  • Accounting for time/cost trade-offs

Managing Risks

Increasing the probability of success

  • Leveraging a Risk Analysis Questionnaire
  • Communicating the results

Analyzing potential problems

  • Brainstorming adverse risks
  • Adding preventive and contingent actions into your plan

Mitigating risks

  • Identifying opportunities and threats
  • Conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis
  • Planning for contingent actions

Executing the Plan

Managing stakeholder expectations

  • Controlling scope creep
  • Reporting progress

Addressing resistance to change

  • Recognizing reasons behind resistance to change
  • Defusing resistance

Keeping your piece of the work on track

  • Resolving problems with a risk register
  • Identifying standard techniques for tracking time and money

Applying Lessons Learned for Future Work

  • Evaluating project objectives
  • Documenting methods for continued improvement
 
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Creating a High-Impact Work Plan for Business Analysts Tuition

 
Course: 912   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17   CPE: 17
 
 
Course Tuition
$ 2,490Standard Tuition
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$ 2,213Government Discount
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$ 2,250Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,267Triple-Pack

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  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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