The purpose of the course is to understand what strategic Business analysis is, why it is used, and how it is used. Participants will learn what the necessary elements are that support the use of Business Analysis including contractual agreements, technology, sponsors, risk identification and mitigation, sources of capital, financial structuring, the use of Business modeling and other considerations.

Course Objective

At the end of the course, participants will:

• Apply best practices of the business analysis discipline
• Conduct a business-needs analysis to elicit stakeholder requirements
• Apply techniques to identify issues and opportunities
• Create effective requirements and communication plans
• Manage solution assessment and validation

Target Competencies

• Analyzing and prioritizing business needs
• Applying elicitation techniques
• Deploying root cause analysis techniques
• Writing SMART business objectives
• Conducting stakeholder analysis
• Deploying the affinity diagramming technique