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Mastering Business Analysis
  $2,280




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


Advanced techniques create Superior Results!

This twelve-week course builds on the critical concepts that were learned in the Essentials course. You’ll strengthen skills previously developed and expand your knowledge of the techniques necessary to become an effective business analyst. You’ll explore advanced topics in quality management, testing, verification and validation. And you’ll use your new skills immediately, on the job!

Now supporting the latest version of BABOK® 2.0! Includes hundreds of newly added test prep questions to prepare you for the CBAP® certification.

Who Should Register?

Managers and professionals who have taken the Essentials course will strengthen their business analysis skills and enhance the flow of information within their organizations.

What You’ll Study

Defining, Making and Measuring Quality
  • Quality Basics
  • Verification and Validation Definitions
  • How Quality Fits Into Requirements and Analysis
  • Use Cases and Test Cases
  • Verification and Validation Fundamentals
  • Quality Risk Analysis

Planning for Testing, Verification and Validation
  • Lifecycles and Estimation
  • Develop Project Plans and Schedules for Requirements
  • Scheduling Mistakes to Avoid
  • Integrating (or not) the User Interface (UI) Design Into Requirements
  • Dealing With Requirements Changes Throughout the Project
  • Timeboxing as a Technique
    to Limit Scope and Increase Quality

Testing Conformance to Requirements
  • Basics of Black Box (Requirements-Based) Tests
  • Test Oracles
  • Equivalence Partitioning
  • Boundary value Analysis
  • Decision Tables

Managing and Interacting
with Verification and Validation,
and Test Teams
  • Test Planning
  • Reporting Test Results

Lean and Six Sigma for Business Analysts
  • Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma
  • What is Lean and Six Sigma?
  • Lean Tools and the War on Waste
  • Key Lean Foundation Concepts
  • The Principles of 5S
  • Error Proofing
  • Changeover Reduction
  • value Stream Mapping
  • The DMAIC Model and Tollgate Reviews
  • Six Sigma Tools and the War on Defects
  • QFD, FMEA and SIPOC
  • Flow Chart, Pareto Chart and Fishbone Diagram
  • Concept of variation and Histograms
  • New Quality Management Tools

Activities
  • Quality Basics and Risk Analysis
  • Verification and Validation Definitions
  • How Quality Fits into Requirements and Analysis
  • Use Cases and Test Cases
  • Verification and Validation Fundamentals
  • Develop Project Plans and Schedules for Requirements & Estimation
  • Scheduling Mistakes to Avoid
  • Integrating (or not) the User Interface (UI) Design into Requirements

Credit & Tuition

ACE credit recommendation 3 semester hours. Register today and earn 50 PDUs, 5.0 CEUs for $2,280.

Mastering Business Analysis
  $2,280




CALL TO REGISTER!

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