Information Technology Business Analysis - 2025

Importance of Business Analysis. 

Why We should focus on business analysis. 

Factors of Project Failure

Introduction to IIBA - International Institute of Business Analysis

Introduction to BABOK - Business Analysis Body of Knowledge

The definition of business analysis and the key terms.

Understanding the enterprise, its functions and the organization.

Understanding the enterprise, its functions and the organization more detailed.

Understanding the change initiatives in an enterprise from beginning.

Completing the business analysis definition.

Deep into the "defining needs and recommending solution".

The competencies a business analyst should have.

A necessary technique for acquiring business knowledge which is an important competency.

The generic applications and user types that any enterprise has.

The generic modules of applications that any enterprise has.

The generic managerial functions of any IT organization.

General information about two main approach in software development: Agile vs Waterfall.

Explanation of software development life cycle and the roles acting in.

Most used software development languages and high level software architecture.

Explaining the business logic in the architecture.

Creating and managing the IT development portfolio (projects, demands & problems)

Explaining the scope of the case study we are dealing with during the business analysis works in this course.

Explaining the business case analysis technique to decide whether to make a project.

Explanation the project prioritization with a simple, beneficial technique.

The first step in business analysis works in a project: stakeholder analysis with a simple, beneficial technique.

Explaining the some stakeholder types and the recommendations to have a effective requirement elicitation.

A case study to learn the requirement gathering / elicitation.

Explanation of stakeholder requirements with samples and a beneficial template to record them.

Important points to have a effective requirement gathering/elicitation.

Explanation of the requirement types with the examples.

Need, requirement, design and solution. Explanation of the key terms with the examples.

Management of the backlog and making a prioritization with the most important criteria.

Introduction to the estimation and the related techniques.

Making a business analysis effort estimation with a simple template.

Making a software development effort estimation with a simple template.

Problem types may occur in software and the structured way to handle them.

Root cause analysis techniques to identify and evaluate the underlying causes of a problem.

Explaining the user stories to specify the stakeholder requirements.

Introduction to the one of the most used business analysis technique: use case diagrams. A beneficial technique to see the whole picture of a project in terms of the functionality needed.

Explaining the relationships in a use case diagram.

Explaining the generalization type of relationship in use case diagram which is important to understand object oriented programming.

Introduction to the one of the most used business analysis technique: process modelling.

Deep diving into the process modelling with a case study.

Explaining the impact analysis with a case study and with a simple, beneficial template.

Introduction to the business analysis documentation with 2 templates.

Preparing the business analysis document step by step according to the case study.

Quick review and the wrap-up of the course content.