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    Understanding the Duties of A Business Analyst

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    Learn to Develop Business Strategies

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    Evaluate and Model Business Systems using various techniques

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The world around us is made up of a vast number of things with each of them being provided by one business or another. How does it become possible for a business to know what the customer wants and what will benefit both the customer and the business as well? This precisely is the job of a Business Analyst. Business Analysis is not a new thing in the world of business, but yes, it is the new buzz word. Earlier the job was done by anybody working at a managerial level in an organisation. Now Business Analyst is a job profile itself.

We at Pentagon Training provide this course so that the delegates can understand the concepts of Business Analysis right from those who know Business Analysis inside-out.

Who should take this course

  • Project Managers
  • System Analysts
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Prerequisites

The course has no prerequisites. The delegates should, however, have the abilities and knowledge to understand the objectives of this course.

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What Will You Learn

After course completion the delegates will have gained an insight of the following modules:

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What's included

  Course Overview

This certification provides a foundation for BCS specialist BCS certificates in the areas of Business Analysis, IS Consultancy and Business Change.  The certification forms a part of the expert module for the Diploma in Business Analysis and also lays the foundation for professional courses in other disciplines, notably Project Managers and System Developers. It is also one of the courses that can be covered as a part of the Knowledge-based modules for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.

Exams

During the exam, the candidate is required to answer 40 questions in 60 minutes. Though it is not mandatory, delegates are required to have attended the accredited training for this course. The exam for this course can be given both on paper as well as on-line. To get the certification, the candidate must score 65% i.e. 26 out of 40 minimum pass marks. BCS does not allow using calculators during the exam.

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  Course Content

  • What is Business Analysis?
    • The origins of business analysis
    • The development of business analysis
      • The impact of outsourcing
      • Competitive advantage of using IT
      • Successful business change
      • The importance of the business analyst
      • Business analysts as internal consultants
    • The scope of business analysis work
      • The range of analysis activities
      • Strategic analysis and definition
      • IT systems analysis
      • Business analysis
    • Taking a holistic approach
    • Business Analyst – Roles and Responsibilities
      • Description of the business analyst role
      • Further aspects of the business analyst role
  • The Competencies of a Business Analyst
    • Personal qualities
    • Business knowledge
    • Professional techniques
    • The development of competencies
  • Strategy Analysis
    • The context for strategy
    • The definition of strategy
    • Policy development
    • External environment analysis
      • PESTLE analysis
      • Porter’s five forces model
    • Internal environment analysis
      • MOST analysis
      • Resource Audit
      • Boston Box
    • SWOT analysis
    • Executing strategy
      • The McKinsey 7-S model
      • The Balanced Business Scorecard
      • Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators
  • The Business Analysis Process Model
    • An approach to problem-solving
    • Stages of the business analysis process model
      • Investigate the situation
      • Consider the perspectives
      • Analyse the needs
      • Evaluate the options
      • Define the requirements
    • Objectives of the process model stages
    • Procedure for each process model stage
    • Techniques used within each process model stage

 

  • Investigation techniques
    • Interviews
      • Advantages and disadvantages of interviewing
      • Preparing for interviewing
      • Conducting the interview
      • Following up the interview
    • Observation
      • Pros and Cons of observation
      • Formal observation
      • Protocol analysis
      • Shadowing
      • Ethnographic studies
    • Workshops
      • Pros and Cons of workshops
      • Preparing for the workshop
      • Facilitating the workshop
      • Techniques
      • Following the workshop
    • Scenarios
      • Situations - Advantages and disadvantages
      • Process for developing scenarios
      • Documenting scenarios
    • Prototyping
    • Prototyping - Advantages and disadvantages
    • Quantitative approaches
      • Surveys or Questionnaires
      • Special Purpose Records
      • Activity Sampling
      • Document Analysis
    • Documenting the current situation
      • Rich Pictures
      • Mind Maps
  • Stakeholder Analysis and Management
    • Stakeholder categories and identification
      • Customers
      • Partners
      • Suppliers
      • Competitors
      • Regulators
      • Owners
      • Employees
      • Managers
    • Stakeholders Analysis
      • The Power/Interest Grid
    • Stakeholder management strategies
      • No interest and no power
      • Some or high interest but no or little
      • No or low to high interest but some power (or influence)
      • Very less interest but high power
      • Some interest and high power (or influence)
      • Keen interest and high power (or influence)
    • Managing stakeholders
      • Stakeholder plan/assessment
    • The Stakeholder Perspectives – An Understanding
      • Soft Systems Methodology
      • Analysing the perspectives
      • CATWOE
    • Business activity models
      • An Overview Of business activity model
      • Learn About Activity Types
      • Forming a consensus model
  • Modelling Business Processes
    • Organisational context
      • Functional view of an organisation
    • An alternative view of an organisation
    • The corporate view of business processes
    • Value propositions
    • Process models
      • Business events
      • Developing the business process model
    • Analysing the as-is process model
    • Improving business processes (to-be business process)
      • Business rules
      • Simplify the process
      • Remove bottlenecks
      • Change the sequence of tasks
      • Redefine process boundary
      • Automate the processing
      • Redesign the process
  • Defining the solution
    • Gap analysis
      • Pointing Out Focus Areas
      • The Gap Analysis Framework
      • Formulating options
    • Introduction to Business Architecture
    • Definition of Business Architecture
    • Business Architecture techniques
      • Definition of a capability model
      • Definition of a value stream
  • Making a Business and Financial Case
    • The business case in the project lifecycle
    • Identifying options
    • Assessing project feasibility
      • Business feasibility
      • Technical feasibility
      • Financial feasibility
    • Structure of a business case
      • Contents of a business case
      • Categories of costs and benefits
      • Impact assessment
      • Risk assessment
    • Investment Assesment
      • Payback – An Overview
      • Discounted cash flow and Internal Return Rate
  • Establishing the Requirements
    • A framework for requirements engineering
    • Actors in requirements engineering
      • The business representatives
      • The project team
    • Requirements elicitation
      • Tacit and explicit knowledge
      • Requirements elicitation techniques
    • Requirements analysis
      • Requirements filters
      • SMART requirements
    • Requirements validation
  • Documenting and Managing Requirements
    • The requirements document
      • Structure
      • Content of the requirements document
    • The requirements catalogue
      • Types of requirements
        • functional and non-functional
        • general
        • technical
      • Hierarchy of requirements
      • Recording requirements
    • Manage requirements
      • Elements of requirements management
  • Modelling Requirements
    • Modelling system functions
      • Use case diagrams
    • Modelling system data
      • Entity Relationship Diagrams
        • Entities, attributes and relationships
        • Types of relationships
      • Class Models
        • Objects and classes
        • Attributes
        • Associations
  • Delivering the Requirements
    • Providing the solution
    • Context
    • Lifecycles
      • The waterfall lifecycle
      • The ‘V’ design lifecycle
      • Incremental lifecycle
      • Iterative systems development lifecycle
  • Delivering the Business Solution
    • BA role in the organisation change lifecycle
    • Design stage
      • Information and Technology
        • Design
        • Development
        • Testing
      • Implementation stage
        • SARAH model
      • Realisation stage
        • Contents of the benefits plan
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