"Business Analyst Bootcamp"

Learning Objectives:

• How to use the right elicitation techniques, models, steps and questions appropriate for the various stakeholder groups (users, senior management, non-technical, business subject-matter-experts, detail oriented, high-level, etc.)
• Understand the critical success factors for a requirements meeting including setting SMART objectives and expectations, using a systematic process and questioning techniques, using visual modeling, keeping the meeting focused, using business language
• Identify clients’ business needs easily, without needing to be a subject matter expert  
• How to work directly and interactively with business clients in defining project requirements 
• Conduct fast and efficient analysis – maximizing the time and resources of the company
• How to apply industry best practices for discovering, describing and documenting requirements for various projects (new development, maintenance and package) and in various environments (iterative, incremental and waterfall)
• Facilitate a meeting to discover and describe use cases, process discussions, business rules and data requirements
• Identify true user requirements versus "nice-to-have"
How to capture and document use cases, process discussions, business rules and data requirements during a requirements meeting
How to apply the seven factors to successful documenting -- listening, capturing, writing, clarifying, organizing, suggesting & teamwork.
How to write requirements specifications using proven and practical best practices—built on the framework and standards from IEEE, SEI’s Capability Maturity Model (CMMI), and the BA BOK
How to document using the five "C’s" to writing quality specifications -- clear, concise, concrete, complete, consistent
How to organize and model the information requirements into business objects and data elements
• Learn the steps, questions and techniques for business process and data modeling – using such tools as context diagramming, use-case modeling, data flow diagramming, functional narratives, process modeling, data descriptions, entity relationship diagrams) 
• How to analyze client business requirements and produce requirement specifications
• Complete a business requirement specification that’s ready for design, development or sourcing software