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Are you seeking a comprehensive framework for business analysis practices across various industries and domains?

Are you searching for an all-in-one course on Business Analysis applicable to different organizational contexts and business scenarios?

Are you interested in advancing your skills after completing the fundamental course “Business Analysis Essentials for Practitioners“?

Welcome to the on-demand course: Advanced Business Analysis for Practitioners! By completing this course, you will:

• Gain a solid understanding of business analysis practices and key concepts.
• Learn effective planning and monitoring of analysis efforts.
• Develop skills in elicitation and collaboration.
• Master requirements lifecycle management.
• Perform strategic analysis to address business needs.
• Structure and design requirements effectively.
• Evaluate solutions and recommend improvements.
• Acquire essential competencies for business analysis.
• Develop proficiency in various techniques.
• Apply diverse perspectives to business analysis tasks.

Course information on PMI®: https://ccrs.pmi.org/search/course/536332

Course Outline

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

The primary purpose of defining the profession of business analysis and providing a set of commonly accepted practices is to help people who work with and employ business analysts understand the skills and knowledge they should expect from a skilled practitioner.

Chapter 2: BUSINESS ANALYSIS KEY CONCEPTS

The Business Analysis Key Concepts chapter includes information that provides a foundation for all other content, concepts, and ideas. It provides business analysts with a basic understanding of the central ideas necessary for their daily practice of business analysis.

Chapter 3: BUSINESS ANALYSIS PLANNING AND MONITORING

The Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring tasks organize and coordinate the efforts of business analysts and stakeholders. These tasks produce outputs that are used as key guidelines for the other tasks throughout the course.

Chapter 4: ELICITATION AND COLLABORATION

Elicitation is the drawing forth or receiving of information from stakeholders or other sources. Collaboration is the act of two or more people working together towards a common goal. Elicitation and collaboration work is ongoing as long as business analysis work is occurring.

Chapter 5: REQUIREMENTS LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT

The Requirements Life Cycle Management chapter describes the tasks that business analysts perform in order to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement. The purpose is to ensure that business, stakeholder, and solution requirements and designs are aligned to one another and that the solution implements them.

Chapter 6: STRATEGY ANALYSIS

The Strategy Analysis chapter describes the business analysis work that must be performed to collaborate with stakeholders in order to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance (the business need), enable the enterprise to address that need, and align the resulting strategy for the change with higher- and lower-level strategies.

Chapter 7: REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN DEFINITION

• The Requirements Analysis and Design Definition chapter describes the tasks that business analysts perform to structure and organize requirements discovered during elicitation activities, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.

Chapter 8: SOLUTION EVALUATION

The Solution Evaluation chapter describes the tasks that business analysts perform to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.

Chapter 9: UNDERLYING COMPETENCIES

The Underlying Competencies chapter provides a description of the behaviours, characteristics, knowledge, and personal qualities that support the practice of business analysis.

Chapter 10: TECHNIQUES 

The Techniques chapter provides a high-level overview of the techniques referenced in the Knowledge Areas. Techniques are methods business analysts use to perform business analysis tasks. The techniques described are intended to cover the most common and widespread techniques practiced within the business analysis community.

Chapter 11: PERSPECTIVES

Perspectives are used within business analysis work to provide focus to tasks and techniques specific to the context of the initiative. Most initiatives are likely to engage one or more perspectives. The perspectives discussed represent some of the most common views of business analysis at the time of writing.