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This course has been designed specifically to help you understand the full extent of the BA role and to help you gain a clear picture of what business analysts actually do for their employers and clients.
A Comprehensive Introduction to Business Analysis
6 Blocks Containing 36 Lessons To Help You Grasp The Full Scope Of The BA Profession Within The Context Of Organizational Change
How You’ll Benefit
1 • Get Further In Your Career
You’re in a much better position to make your career decisions when you have a full understanding of all your options as a business analyst. This course will teach you what you need to know to achieve your longer-term career goals.
2 • Do Better In Job Interviews
Speak to your interviewer using the terminology they already understand and the frameworks they value. The knowledge you gain from this course lets you show your employer that you understand the organizational change process and where you, as the BA, fit into that process.
3 • Do Better With Your Stakeholders
Most business stakeholders struggle to understand the upstream and downstream activities that need to take place throughout a change initiative or software project. Put your stakeholders at ease by giving them a crystal clear roadmap of how their initiative will execute.
What You’ll Learn
BLOCK 1 • THE ROLE OF THE BA
7 Video Lessons • 47 Minutes
The business analyst plays a key role in organizational change. This block covers all the activities and deliverables that a business analyst is expected to produce throughout the organizational change process.
BLOCK 2 • THE ENTERPRISE
5 VIDEO LESSONS • 12 MINUTES
Business analysts never work in isolation. The BA must often interact with stakeholders that span across many different divisions, units, and layers of the organization to perform their duties. This block teaches you about the stakeholder groups that you will have to work with throughout your projects.
BLOCK 3 • PROJECTS (Agile & Waterfall)
5 VIDEO LESSONS • 23 MINUTES
A project is a temporary endeavor funded by the organization to deliver the required solution. It is the job of the business analyst to ensure that the solution has been designed to solve the actual challenges and take advantage of the opportunities that the business faces.
BLOCK 4 • ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
6 VIDEO LESSONS • 13 MINUTES
The business analyst is expected to describe the solution to each stakeholder group from a perspective that they will understand. You will need to have a clear understanding of the internal structure of an enterprise solution to do this.
BLOCK 5 • BA ARTIFACTS (examples)
8 EXAMPLES
It’s important to see actual examples of the artifacts that a BA is expected to produce throughout the enterprise solution delivery process to get a truly clear sense of what a BA does. This block illustrates these artifacts and explains them in detail.
BLOCK 6 • BUSINESS ANALYSIS IN THE REAL WORLD
5 VIDEO LESSONS • 43 MINUTES
This block of lessons brings all the concepts of blocks 1 to 5 down to the real world by providing you with three examples of how projects execute in the real world.
Learn From Experience
Your Instructor Is Experienced And Educated In Business Analysis
Emal Bariali
15+ Years Of Business Analysis Experience
Emal has spent the last 15+ years of his BA career helping organizations implement custom-built systems, COTS systems, and execute process improvement projects.
Masters Degree In Information Systems
Emal gained his own firm theoretical foundation in business analysis and enterprise systems by acquiring his Master’s degree in Information Systems.
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Full Lesson Plan
36 Lessons To Explain How A Business Analyst Helps A Company Fund A Project To Deliver A Solution
BLOCK 1 • THE ROLE OF THE BA
1 • What Is Business Analysis?
2 • The Enterprise Solution Delivery Process (ESDP)
3 • Stage 1 – Project Funding / Business Case
4 • Stage 2 – BA Work Planning
5 • Stage 3 – Project Execution
6 • Stage 4 – Rollout/Go-Live/Change Management
7 • Stage 5 – Solution Maintenance
BLOCK 2 • THE ENTERPRISE
8 • Stakeholder Groups Within The Enterprise
9 • Working With Leadership
10 • Working With Business Operations
11 • Working With Applications
12 • Working With Infrastructure
BLOCK 3 • PROJECTS
13 • What Is A Project?
14 • Waterfall Project Structure
15 • Agile Project Structure
16 • BA Work On Waterfall Projects
17 • BA Work On Agile Projects
BLOCK 4 • ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
18 • What Is An Enterprise Solution?
19 • Process + Product = Solution
20 • Leaderships’ View
21 • Operations’ View
22 • Applications’ View
23 • Artifacts Produced By The BA (overview)
BLOCK 5 • ARTIFACTS PRODUCED BY THE BA (examples)
24 • Solution Context Diagram
25 • End-To-End Business Process
26 • Layer #1 – Business Process Layer
27 • Layer #2 – User Interaction Layer
28 • Layer #3 – Application Logic Layer
29 • Layer #4 – Data Layer
30 • Layer #5 – System Interface Layer
31 • Layer #6 – Reporting Layer
BLOCK 6 • BUSINESS ANALYSIS IN THE REAL WORLD
32 • Three Scenarios Of The ESDP
33 • Project #1 – The Ideal Scenario
34 • Project #2 – The Likely Scenario
35 • Project #3 – The Extreme Scenario
36 • Full Walkthrough of Course Concepts
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