Master Business Analysis, Requirements Management & PMI-PBA®

Explore how PMI professional business analysis identifies business needs, defines product and project requirements, and leverages stakeholder engagement, backlog, and models to guide solution design.

Analyze enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets, including regulatory compliance, internal culture and structure, external conditions, and access to knowledge bases and lessons learned for business analysis.

Explore the role of the business analyst, factors broadening the role and sphere of influence, and common challenges. Learn best practices, pre-project analysis, and expansion into specialized business analyst roles.

Identify business needs and value, assess current and future states, perform gap analysis, evaluate options with return on investment, and prepare the business case and project governance.

Identify the business problem or opportunity by gathering information via interviews, journey maps, observation, surveys, and document analysis; size up the situation, draft a situation statement, and identify root causes.

Assess current state by identifying root causes with stakeholders' collaboration, writing a situation statement, and mapping enterprise and business architecture to understand internal and external factors.

determine the future state by identifying gaps from the current state to the desired state and proposing changes, initiatives, or capabilities to meet business goals and objectives.

Facilitate product roadmap development in agile environments by outlining high-level releases, prioritizing features and epics, and aligning initiatives, vision, and KPIs with strategy.

Examine the business planning domain and stakeholder engagement, detailing governance frameworks, stakeholder identification, engagement and communication, and adaptive, predictive, or hyper business analysis planning.

Develop the business analysis plan, consolidating stakeholder engagement, communication, elicitation, analysis, traceability, monitoring, and solution evaluation approaches, and align it with agile or predictive life cycles.

Prepare for transition to the future state by assessing readiness, identifying gaps, and developing a transition plan aligned with the business case. Confirm go/no-go criteria and benefits realization.

Define how analysis will be performed within the business analysis plan by linking elicitation approach and analysis approach, determine modeling, verification, validation, prioritization, and acceptance criteria.

Prepare for elicitation by organizing sessions, such as workshops, with clear objectives, defined participants, and ready resources; predefine questions and timeboxed agendas to ensure effective elicitation.

Learn how to conduct contact elicitation by preparing, implementing, and confirming results through open and closed questions, brainstorming, and collaborative games, drawing on stakeholder input, documents, and research.

Confirm elicitation results by following up and validating stakeholder understanding against historical data. Refine unconfirmed results and package them into prd or srs using document analysis, interviews, observation, and walkthrough.

Learn how to determine the analysis approach in business analysis, outlining inputs, modeling choices, verification, validation, acceptance criteria, and collaboration.

Create and analyze models by converting elicitation results into structured representations, such as diagrams and use cases, to define requirements, reveal gaps, and build shared understanding.

Explore, create, and analyze models for business analysis, including context diagrams to define scope and interfaces, data dictionaries, data flow diagrams, decision trees and tables, and ecosystem maps.

Explore how to create and analyze models, including entity relationship diagrams, data flow diagrams, event lists, traceability matrices, feature and goal models, and CRUD matrices to define requirements and risks.

Learn to model organizations with organizational charts and breakdown structures, map processes with state diagrams, and define requirements with epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and minimum viable product.

Explore techniques to define and elaborate requirements, including business rule catalog, definition of reading, definition of done, glycerin, product backlog with DEEP criteria, and story elaboration.

Define acceptance criteria to align PRD, SRS, and PRS and guide user acceptance testing, test scenarios, and the definition of done with quality control and user stories.

Verify requirements strengthens quality by reviewing product requirements document and product information to remove errors and conflicts, ensure consistency, and align with regulatory and compliance standards before approval.

Prioritize requirements and other product information to align stakeholders with business goals and objectives, using backlog management, Moscow ranking, time boxing, and voting.

Prioritize requirements with nine agile techniques, such as pay a feature, Delphi, minimum viable product, MOSOCU, dot voting, and traceability matrix, to craft an adaptive backlog.

Identify and analyze product risks using inputs such as analysis approach, business goals, and product scope; apply techniques like context diagrams, elicitation, estimation, and risk register.

Master traceability and monitoring in business analysis through requirement traceability metrics, backward and forward linkages, and change management to align with business goals.

This course covers inputs, tools, and outputs for selecting and approving requirements, including backlog management, collaborative games, definition of ready and done, Delphi, force field analysis, and mosico prioritization.

Explore quality management fundamentals for business analysis, including quality plan, quality assurance, quality control, cost of quality, and practical tools like control chart, flowchart, and process map to control defects.

Explore how to plan business analysis activities by considering project context, life cycle, and experience, then define components such as elicitation planning, analysis planning, prioritization, traceability, communication, and decision making.

Define how to verify and validate requirements to meet quality standards and stakeholder needs, plan change management, and evaluate solutions within the business analysis work plan.

Understand requirements elicitation and analysis as an iterative process, covering planning, preparation, conducting elicitation sessions, and documenting and analyzing results with stakeholder input.

Explore requirement analysis after elicitation, plan for elicitation, and model information with diagrams or text to verify, validate, resolve conflicts, and document solutions.

Explore traceability and monitoring in business analysis, focusing on change management, baselining requirements, tracking lifecycle metrics, and linking business needs to objectives and solution designs through a traceability grid.

Explore traceability and monitoring to manage requirements approval, baselines, product backlog, and the project life cycle, while applying change control, impact analysis, and configuration management.

Explore solution evaluation as assessing a solution or its segments against expected results, using qualitative or quantitative methods to inform go/no-go decisions and ending early.

Evaluate and validate solution results throughout the lifecycle using surveys, focus groups, exploratory and acceptance testing, and integration tests; inform go/no-go decisions and ensure business value.