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Essentials of Business Analysis
  $1,980




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Improve Your Company’s Information Flow – and Its Bottom Line!

If you’re involved in analyzing and defining project requirements, the Essentials of Business Analysis certificate is for you! This eight-week course helps managers and professionals identify, analyze and design processes to improve the overall flow of information within a company. You’ll gain skills to determine the business requirements that drive IT-related projects, plus you’ll learn how to maintain an effective information system to ensure timely delivery of cost-effective products.

Who Should Register?

This course is for anyone involved in gathering, analyzing, documenting and validating information in a professional environment or those looking to transition into this role. It provides knowledge, skills and techniques that will enable you to strengthen your organization in key areas.

What You’ll Study

Requirements and
Business Modeling
  • Business Analyst Role
  • Business Process Modeling
  • Communications – Rationale
  • Terms and Symbols
  • Requirements in Different Lifecycles
  • Data Flow Diagrams
  • Changing Requirements
  • Control Flow Diagrams
  • Requirement Defects
  • Avoiding Defects Overview
  • Communications – Alternative Forums

Before Requirements
and Modeling
  • Sharing a Vision
  • Need, Goals, and Objectives
  • Communications –Stakeholders
  • Operational Concepts – What Are They?
  • Capturing "As Is" Business View
  • Moving From "As Is" to "To Be"
  • Communications – Effectiveness

Writing Good
Requirements
  • Collecting Data Requirements
  • Introduction to CRUD Charts
  • Affinity Analysis Using CRUD Charts
  • Rules for Good Requirements
  • Business Rules
  • Prototypes and Mock-Ups
  • Prioritizing Requirements
  • Finding and Fixing Requirement Defects
  • Introduction to Conceptual Data Models
  • Communications – Verification

Applying What We Have Learned
  • Working on the Project Team
  • Putting the Process Together
  • Requirements for a New Product
  • Business Process Model Walk-Through
  • Upgrades to an Existing Product
  • Conceptual Data Model Walk-Through
  • Communications in Action
  • Requirements Why and What

Credit & Tuition

ACE credit recommendation 3 semester hours. Register today and earn 45 PDUs, 4.5 CEUs for $1,980.

Essentials of Business Analysis
  $1,980




CALL TO REGISTER!

800-571-4953
 
 
This Course is part of a Master Certificate Program. Click here to learn more and SAVE!