Business Analysis Demonstrated
What you'll learn
- Understand the day to day life of a Business Analyst within a project
- Identify and estimate the Business Analyst's specific tasks
- Understand how to tackle the project from a Business Analysis perspective
- Apprehend the importance of project definition and project scope
- Develop an ability to elicit and document different type of requirements
- Understand the challenges faced by the Business Analysts during a project
- Decide whether Business Analysis is the right career choice for them
Requirements
- No pre-requisites are required
- Business Analysis Essentials recommended
Description
“I solve problems you don’t know you have, in ways you can’t understand” (I am a Business Analyst).
The role of the Business Analyst is much more complex than the people perceive it to be and sometimes it can be a challenge to understand all its facets.
In the Business Analysis Essentials we went over the theoretical concepts of Business Analysis. In this course, we are applying the concepts in a simulated project environment, looking at the tasks and deliverables that a Business Analyst has to produce during the life of a project.
Master the BA tasks and deliverables
- Estimating the project specific tasks
- Understand the deliverables
- Apply the elicitation techniques
- Produce the business and process flows
- Face the project challenges
- Write effective and clear requirements
- Understand
how to overcome the obstacles
Most of the Business Analysis courses are teaching the theoretical concepts but they don’t provide enough understanding of what the Business Analysts do on a daily basis during the project.
This course aims to overcome these shortcomings and walk you through a complete project from the Business Analyst’s point of view, starting with the project initiations, project planning, requirements elicitation, requirements communications, various traps that you may encounter on the way, all the way till you get your requirements signed off and you have to provide development and test support.
Contents and Overview
This course contains over 40 lectures and more than 3 hours of contents. The course is designed for beginners to intermediate Business Analysts, but a bit of prior experience would help to understand better the project challenges. If you are new to the Business Analysis world, I recommend you take the Business Analysis Essentials course first in order to grasp the theoretical concepts, before seeing how they are being applied in practice.
While Business Analysis Essentials is not a pre requisite for this course, it would help you to cement the concepts taught there through a combination of theory (Business Analysis Essentials) and practice (Business Analysis Demonstrated).
By the end of this course, you will have a complete understanding of how to use the Business Analysis techniques, what challenges you will be facing during a project, what documents you need to deliver, how to get the business buy in to sign off the requirements, what type of communication challenges the project may present and how to overcome them.
What are the requirements for this course?
- Your willingness to learn
- A basic understanding of the SDLC (refer to Business Analysis Essentials)
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 40 lectures and 3 hours of content
- Step by step instructions about what you need to do in a project as a Business Analyst
- You will be able to be more effective and successful in your job as a Business Analyst
- A complete picture of what the Business Analysts tasks are in projec
Who is the audience?
- Everyone who wants to gain more insight about Business Analysis
- Students who want to pursue a Business Analyst career
- Junior or Intermediate Business Analysts who want to become more effective
- Senior Business Analysts who need a refresher of the Business Analysis concepts
Who this course is for:
- Anybody who is interested to discover what Business Analysis is about
- People who want to embark on a career as a Business Analyst
- Students who want to decide if Business Analysis is the right career choice
- Junior Business Analyst who want to build more confidence
- Intermediate and Senior Business Analysts who need a more structured approach
Course content
- Preview03:26
- 06:09First sketches
- 07:37Discussing with PM
- 05:03Meeting summary
- 02:25Game plan
- Preview08:26
- 08:07Estimating considerations
Instructor
![Cristian Fador](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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I started to work as a Business Analyst in 2000, when the topic was somehow in its infancy. At the time I was developing a reinsurance application and played the role of developer, business analyst and tester. That was my first introduction in the art of business analysis.
Three years later I joined a Business Analysis department in a major financial corporation and never looked back. Initially I started as a junior Business Analyst and as the years progressed I moved up through the ranks until eventually becoming the leader of the department.
I have participated to close to 100 projects, their size varying from small projects (less than $50,000 budget) to very large (over 10 million $), many times acting as a project manager.
Five years ago, I have been asked by some of my friends to get involved in their community and teach some Business Analysis courses for newcomers that were trying to apply for a job. That was an amazing and gratifying experience. It was amazing to see them growing from absolute novice to successful Business Analysts and landing jobs in the field.
After a few years of teaching both Business Analysis and Quality Assurance courses, I started to receive requests to teach on line and looking for a method to efficiently do this, I came across Udemy and embarked in this new venture.
I am absolutely convinced that you will enjoy my courses as I spare no effort to continuously improve them and make sure that the message I deliver is clearly received and understood.