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Fundamentals of business analysis
- Why is business analysis necessary? Definition and basic concepts.
- Role and responsibilities of the business analyst.
- Overview of the IQBBA and syllabus skill levels.
- What a business analyst (BA) does.
- Necessary skills.
Exercise
Questions to review the basics.
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Definition of business strategy
- Internal analysis
- External analysis (innovation, optimization).
- Identifying stakeholders.
- Proposal and analysis of solutions.
- Project launch.
Exercise
Identify stakeholders. Internal and external analyses. Review questions.
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Managing the business analysis process.
- Approaches to business analysis.
- Communication.
- Business analysis products.
- Tools and techniques to support the business analysis process.
Example
Analysis process. Review questions.
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Development of business analysis requirements
- Concept of eliciting/elucidating business requirements.
- Specification.
- Verification and validation.
- Analyzing and modeling requirements
Exercise
Create an elicited repository of requirements. Review of a repository of requirements. Analysis of an expression of need. Review questions.
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Assessing and optimizing the solution
- Assessing the solution. Confirming it matches the business needs.
- Optimization. Methdologies to support process improvement.
- Exercise
- Review questions.
- Preparing for and taking the test
- Mock exam used to fully review the training.
- Taking the official IQBBA Foundation Version 3.0 exam.
Exercise
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- Management of business analysis requirements
- Information architecture.
Exercise
Traceability.
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Configuration management.
- Managing the scope of the solution.
- Quality assurance.
- Tools and techniques. Scoring.