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Rutgers University

Essentials of Business Analysis Certificate Program

Five-Day Program

Innovations in information technology have had a dramatically positive impact on American business over the last 15 years. Still, research consistently shows that a large percentage of software projects fail to deliver the intended business results. The "ITBusiness" divide is a key factor in these failures.

Indeed, more than 50 percent of organizations polled in a recent IT Governance Institute survey lacked any formal structure to align IT investments with business strategy. According to CIO Magazine, as many as 71 percent of software projects fail because of poor business requirements management, making it the single biggest reason for project failure. Enter the Business Analyst.

The business analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. To succeed in this role, an individual must have a broad range of business, technical and interpersonal skills.

The Essentials of Business Analysis Five-Day Certificate Program delivers skills, techniques and tools to:

• Understand and define the organizational need
• Gather the information needed to clearly define the requirements
• Document requirements for use by all stakeholders
• Analyze, verify and validate requirements
• Create a framework for successful requirements management and communication

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Essentials of Business Analysis Certificate Program

Five-Day Outline

Day 1

• Business Analysis Overview
  • IIBA knowledge areas
  • Life cycle phases
  • Definitions
  • Roles and responsibilities
• Building a Requirements Plan
• Project Management from a Business Analyst's View
  • Where the business analysis tasks fit into project management
  • The business analyst's project roles

DAY 2

• Enterprise Analysis
  • Understanding stakeholders and organizational politics
  • Creating/adapting the business architecture
  • Conducting feasibility studies
  • Developing the business case
  • Conducting the initial risk assessment

DAY 3

• Eliciting Requirements
  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Elicitation techniques
• When to use which techniques
• Watch-outs
• Tips for success
• Developing and Using Use Cases
  • Where use cases fit into requirements development
  • Use case structure and components

DAY 4

• Documenting Requirements
  • Determining what types of requirements are needed
  • Requirements styles
  • Translating use cases to requirements

DAY 5

• Analyzing Requirements
  • What to analyze
  • Analysis tools and techniques
• Verifying Requirements
  • Criteria for valid requirements
  • Prototyping and walkthroughs
• Requirements Traceability
  • Tracing requirements upstream and downstream
  • Traceability matrix
  • Requirements change control

5-Day Business Analyst Program - $2,995 for of an intensive one-week program.

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There is 1PDU/CDU credit provided for each hour of instruction

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