Course Outline
1 - Foundational Concepts
- Components of business analysis
- Business analysis competencies
- IIBA/PMI and the goals of a professional association
- Purpose for having a BA standard
- Exercise: Review the case study
2 - Introduction to Strategy Analysis
- Definition and purpose of Strategy Analysis
- The timing of Strategy Analysis
- Identifying stakeholders and the business need
- Discussions: Strategy analysis in your organization, When business needs are not clearly defined, and Strategy Analysis and the business analyst
- Exercises: Describe Strategy Analysis, Identify Roles/Responsibilities, and Identify the business need
3 - Analyze the Current State environment
- The importance of analyzing Current State
- Understanding Business Architecture
- Techniques for analyzing Current State
4 - Define the Future State
- Future State description
- Assessing impacts to business architecture
- Determining Solution Scope
- Discussions: Managing expectations with stakeholders, Capturing current capabilities, and How to approach acquiring capabilities
5 - Assess Risks
- Identifying risks
- Risk Tolerance/Categories/risk responses
- The concept of positive risk
- Techniques for identifying risks
- Discussions: Who is responsible for identifying risks? Who captures positive risks today?
- Exercise: Identify Risks
6 - Define the Change Strategy
- Defining change strategy
- Components of change strategy
- Solution scope, enterprise readiness and change
- Techniques for defining a change strategy
7 - Developing a Business Case
- The purpose of a business case
- Business case components
- Building a convincing business case
- Determining the Recommended Solution
- Packaging the business case
- Reviewing the business case with stakeholders
- Discussions: Evaluating project proposals and anticipating questions for the business case review
- Exercise: Create a business case
8 - Additional Resources
- Helpful links for obtaining additional business analysis information
Target Audience
Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with business analysts