The Ultimate PMI-PBA Exam Prep. Course 35 PDUs

Explore the business analysis framework and the big picture to define products and projects, project requirements, life cycles, process groups, knowledge areas, organizational process assets, and enterprise environmental factors.

Understand the relationship between products and projects by examining their definitions and life cycles. See how needs assessment guides investment and how product and project life cycles evolve together.

Identify product requirements across business, stakeholder, solution, transition, project, and quality types, including functional and non-functional aspects, to meet business needs and ensure project success.

Explore the definition of needs assessment in PMI PBA, learn seven processes to analyze problems or opportunities, assess current and future states, and support charter development and roadmaps.

Identify the problem or opportunity to lay the foundation for prioritizing requirements in the needs assessment knowledge area. Evaluate the current environment and discern impact and size.

draft a clear situation statement after needs investigation using the a, b, c format to define problem or opportunity, align stakeholders, and prevent wrong solutions.

Explore Kano analysis to model product features from the customer viewpoint, using basics, performance, wow (lighters), indifferent, and reverse attributes to delight customers and optimize return on investment.

Identify inputs such as business goals and deliverables, then align capabilities with the product roadmap. Facilitate workshops and use feature models, visioning, and story mapping to craft and sequence roadmap.

Use brainstorming as an elicitation technique to generate diverse ideas in a facilitated group, keep ideas unjudged, then analyze and organize them with affinity diagrams to solve problems.

Explore four transition plan strategies: massive, segmented, time boxed coexistence, and permanent coexistence, and learn how dual solutions impact operations and how to select the most appropriate approach.

Examine how metrics and measurements drive business analysis performance, using KPIs like percentage of requirements, defects, missed requirements, delivery slippage, and open questions about the requirements to evaluate effectiveness.

Explore the differences between retrospectives and lessons learned, including timing, formality, and agendas in agile and adaptive lifecycles versus waterfall, and apply insights to future work without blame.

Explore the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the prepare for elicitation process. Learn to tailor elicitation, plan questions and agenda, and create preparation materials.

Explore the types of elicitation questions, including open-ended and closed-ended formats, and learn to mix forced, limited, confirmation, contextual, and context-free questions to meet objectives.

Master the traceability and monitoring knowledge area by creating and analyzing models that document requirements, and verify, validate, and prioritize requirements while identifying uncertainty through product risk analysis.

Defines the analysis knowledge area and its nine processes, highlighting data analysis and modeling, visual models, and how requirements, risks, and design options are analyzed and prioritized.

Create and analyze models to visualize product information and reveal gaps in data. Align this two-part process with the PMI guide to clarify requirements and drive project outcomes.

Define the high level scope and boundaries of a system using a context diagram and its level zero data flow diagram to show interfaces with external entities and data flows.

Master ERD concepts and entity relationship diagrams for business data to create clear data designs by modeling entities, relationships, and cardinalities with attributes for PMI-PBA prep.

Discover how an agile product backlog guides release planning, stakeholder expectations, and grooming of deep backlog items—prioritized user stories, requirements, and features that adapt to change.

Define acceptance criteria by linking inputs, tools, and outputs to user stories and requirements, using BDD and given–when–then to align with business stakeholders, story elaboration, and the definition of done.

Identify the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the validate requirements process, linking requirements to acceptance criteria and business objectives through traceability, walkthroughs, and Delphi consensus.

Prioritize requirements and other product information per the PMI Guide to Business Analysis, ranking work by business value, effort, and risk for early delivery.

Explore how a kanban board visualizes tasks and progress with columns and cards, using work-in-progress limits to pull work toward completion and boost team focus.

Trace relationships and dependencies between requirements and other product information, as described by the PMI guide to Business Analysis, to sequence work, manage scope, and support value-delivering release decisions.

Explore relationships and dependencies among requirements, including subsets with common data and unique contracting terms, implementation dependencies (finish-to-start), and benefit dependencies like training needed to use new software.

Select and approve requirements by applying inputs, tools and techniques, with stakeholders validating and verifying requirements against the product scope and dependencies.

Explore the definition and processes of the solution evaluation knowledge area in the era of globalization and digitization, including validation, evaluation approach, performance, defects, and release acceptance.

Evaluate acceptance results against defined criteria, include acceptance testing, address defects, and weigh repair costs versus relieving the solution, following the PMI guide to business analysis.

Learn how to obtain solution acceptance for a release by analyzing inputs, tools, and outputs, comparing approved requirements with implemented release, and applying risk analysis, stakeholder engagement and communication approach.