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    Understand the legal and regulatory framework for business analysis

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    Learn to model business activities

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    Know the relevance of the business analyst role

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With delegates turning up for the various courses of BCS, BCS deemed it fit to introduce a level of certification whereby the true knowledge of the delegates could be tested both in written and verbally or orally as well. This came up as the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis. The candidates are required to clear four different exams and having done this they should appear for an oral examination also.

Who should take this course

The International Diploma is designed for business and IT professionals who want to enhance their business analysis skills. This BCS International Diploma is meant for  business analysts, business managers, their staff, business change managers and project managers.

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Prerequisites

The delegates coming to the examination hall should bring some photographic identification to the hall for validation prior to the exam (Driving License, Passport and named Work ID badges are all acceptable). For further information, please refer to the Identification Policy which can be found on the BCS website. The delegates, as an examination policy, are required to arrive at least 15 minutes ahead of the allocated start time as this helps to keep the examination schedule running smoothly.

Delegates will be expected to have the experience to environments as a business analyst, project manager, change management, quality or a similar role. In addition, they will be expected to have reviewed allploma. the courses and their syllabus that fall under this diploma.

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What Will You Learn

  • Develop the appropriate skills and proficiencies required by a Business Analyst 
  • Instil a business analysis process model approach to change initiatives and organisational problem solving
  • Understand how a business strategy is evolved
  • How to identify and document business issues?
  • Consider the stakeholders viewpoints  who will be affected or are interested in the change project and document their views
  • How to lead and work within a formal requirements engineering framework
  • Identify and develop a business case which would be used to justify a project
  • Modelling techniques and notation to present business processes
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What's included

  Course Overview

The BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis is a leading industry standard that every Business Analysts would like to have on their resume. Business Analysis plays a vital role within an organisation, helping to identify business needs and providing solutions to the business problems. The BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis is now an industry recognised certification that is accepted globally. The certification proves the knowledge, skills and capabilities of a Business Analyst.

 

Exams

The candidates need to pass four exams overall and then the oral exam. The delegate will have to pass both the Core ModThe Path To the International Diplomaule exams – Business Analysis Practice and Requirements Engineering. Then pass one exam from the Knowledge Based Module which contains Business Analysis Foundation, Business Change, Commercial Awareness, and IS Project Management. To complete the four exams it is mandatory for the delegate to complete one exam of his/her choice from the Practitioner Module which is comprised of Modeling Business Process, Benefits Management and Business Acceptance, Systems Modelling Techniques, and Systems Development Essentials. After these four exams come to the final and last Oral exam during which the delegates have to sit with two examiners who can query the delegate anything regarding the modules that have been covered by the delegate. Also, the examiners can ask the delegate questions regarding the skills the candidate already has. The delegate is given 50 minutes to answer these queries.

 

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  Course Content

  • The business context (K Level 4/5)
    • The rationale for business analysis
    • Sectors of the economy
    • Business environment analysis
    • The legal and regulatory framework for business analysis
    • SWOT analysis
    • Business performance measurement
    • Business analysis within the lifecycle for business change
  • Stages of the lifecycle
  • Business analysis techniques (K Level 4/5)
    • Investigating and documenting business situations
    • Stakeholder analysis and business perspectives
    • Modelling business activities
    • Business events
    • Business rules
    • Gap analysis
  • Business case development (K Level 4/5)
    • Rationale for making a business case
    • Contents of a business case
    • Options
    • The financial case
    • Investment appraisal techniques
    • Risk analysis
    • Impact analysis
    • Lifecycle for the business case
  • Requirements definition (K Level 4/5)
    • Requirements engineering
    • Requirements elicitation
    • Requirements analysis
    • Requirements validation
  • Requirements management and documentation (K Level 4/5)
    • Requirements management
    • Change control
    • Version control
    • Tools in requirements management
    • Types of requirements
    • Documenting requirements
    • Requirements modelling
  • Knowledge-based specialism (K Level 2/3)
    • Relevance of the selected module to business analysis
    • The holistic view of a business system
    • Professionalism and business analysis
    • Projects and business analysis
  • Practitioner specialism (K Level 2/3)
    • Relevance to the business analyst role
    • Relevance of the module to an organisation

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International Diploma

Exemptions for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis

 

IIBA exemption: Holders of The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) qualifications are exempt from the Requirements Engineering module and the knowledge-based specialist module.

IREB exemption: If the delegates have completed IREB’s Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) Foundation level, then they don’t need to take the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering.

Organisational Context exemption: If the delegates have attained the Organisational Context module, this can count towards their Diploma. They won’t need to attain Commercial Awareness, the module that has replaced Organisational Context

 

What Next?

As the saying goes “This is not the end but just the beginning”. The completion of this course and the certification helps the delegates to start preparing for the next step – the Advanced International Diploma in Business Analysis.



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About Cirencester

 

Located 93 miles west northwest of London, Cirencester is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England. Cirencester is located on a tributary of the River Thames – the River Churn. The Royal Agricultural University is also situated in Cirencester since 1840. The Corinium Museum of Cirencester is known for its Roman collection. Corinium is the Roman name for Cirencester. It finds its roots in the ancient British tribe of the Dobunni, both referring to the River Churn. Ptolmey is said to have recorded the earliest reference to Cirencester in AD 150.

Sites of interest

  • The Church of St. John the Baptist, Cirencester 
  • The Roman Catholic Church of St Peter's – founded on 20 June 1895.
  • Baptist Church - Located in the Coxwell Street,.
  • Cirencester House – It is the seat of Earl Bathurst and has one of the finest landscape gardens in England.
  • Abbey House, Cirencester 
  •  The Roman amphitheater 

Culture

The Sundial Theatre which is a part of Cirencester College along with the Bingham Hall host drama and musical events. The events are organized by various community groups and professional touring companies. Some of the musical groups and dance academies in the town are listed below:

  •  Cirencester Operatic Society
  •  Cirencester Philharmonia Orchestra
  •  Cirencester Band
  •  Cirencester Male Voice Choir 
  • Cirencester Creative Dance Academy

Education

Cirencester and its neighboring areas have several primary schools and two secondary schools. The secondary schools are - Cirencester Deer Park School  and Cirencester Kingshill School . The Rendcomb College is an independent school that suits the needs for 3- to 18-year-olds. There used to be a 500-year-old grammar school which collaborated with the Cirencester Deer Park School in 1966.

The Cirencester College, located adjacent to Deer Park School, came into being in 1991.

 

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