• Requirements eliciting techniques for defining the project goals, scope and functional requirements
• UML techniques using use case diagrams to identify the epics, how to use the high level use cases to identify sprints and user stories
• Sprint planning and estimating for creating the product backlogs
• Practical experience in facilitating for agile requirements gathering and building collaborative models for analysis and design during the sprint development phase

• An Agile Project Simulation or real life Agile Project to give each seminar participant the opportunity to conduct collaborative workshops using agendas provided in the class to define the product vision, functional requirements and plan the release and sprints. The participants are provided with feedback and an evaluation by the instructor.

The Agile Requirements Gathering & Iteration Planning training focuses on the project team skill set needed to successfully participate on Agile Projects. The workshop provides training in collaboration techniques needed for gathering requirements, developing release/iteration plans.

• How to identify the scope and perform solutions alternative analysis
• Performing risk assessment
• How to create a work breakdown structure and create a project estimate
• Provide participants with real world experience in creating effective work breakdown structures, project resource planning and estimating
• Each seminar participant receives a Seminar Handbook with sample templates, guidelines and a solution set.

• Understand the fundamentals of project planning and the project life cycle
• Learn how to define the project scope and how to identify project risks
• How to perform risk assessment
• Create an effective project plan and build project estimates
• Provide practical exercises in scoping, risk assessment, project planning and estimating

We are excited to offer our flagship course – Essential Skills for Business Analysis ™ – in an instructor led – virtual learning environment. Four independent offerings make up the entire course. Please select a date and time for each of the four offerings that make up this virtual course.

To stay competitive in today’s fast paced economy, companies need to deliver innovations that meet business or market needs without spending time on the wrong problem. This foundational course supports those efforts by providing students, regardless of their title, the essential business analysis skills they need to identify the right solutions and drive significant value on their projects. The need for strong business analysis skills is necessary for companies to streamline operations and drive customer satisfaction, therefore this course delivers instruction on a core set of proven tools and techniques for use in business analysis work. It supports and expands on the standards outlined in the IIBA BABOK® Guide V2.0.

This course explores the breadth of tasks, skills and interactions expected in a business analysis professional role. Students learn repeatable steps and practice techniques to begin a project, stay organized, enable critical thinking, and deliver clear requirements. Students leave knowing how to engage easily with project stakeholders to define the scope of their analysis and which requirements elicitation techniques are appropriate for a variety of projects. This course provides practical tips and hands on exercises to build expertise and confidence using requirements delivery strategies, independent of methodology.

This course teaches business analysis essentials to both new and experienced practitioners. Interactive workshops allow students to practice the techniques as they learn them. Regardless of the participant’s skill level, the workshop cases and discussions inspire learning insights for every level of experience. This is an excellent course to be held onsite at your organization to level set analysts across the organization. It provides consistent terminology, project participant roles, templates, and suggested standards for an organization to use as a starting point to add their unique customizations. Students are requested to bring their own projects to class to use in developing a personal post-class action plan to take their project to the next step.

In this course students will learn to:

• Analyze and scope the area of analysis, working with project managers and business sponsors to clarify the level and complexity of the business analysis effort needed for the project.
• Select the appropriate elicitation technique to efficiently identify critical requirements.
• Analyze and refine business and functional requirements.
• Ask the right questions through the use of interviewing templates developed specifically for business analysis elicitation.
• Identify the four core components necessary to analyze a business area and provide them in a more consumable format.
• Plan an approach for analyzing, categorizing, and managing requirements. Determine the level of formality required and consider options for documenting and packaging requirements based on project type, priorities, and risks.
• Identify techniques and documentation options appropriate for various software development approaches (traditional, iterative, and agile) and project types (COTS, maintenance, process improvement, new development, etc).
• Define testing objectives and verify requirements are testable.
• Conduct effective requirements reviews to improve the quality of requirements deliverables.
• Build strong relationships with project stakeholders.
• Apply new communication strategies for eliciting and interacting with virtual teams.
• Anticipate issues, think proactively, and use critical thinking skills to plan stakeholder elicitation sessions.

This session is highly interactive utilizing the latest Adobe® Connect technology. It enables students the opportunity to collaborate with other students and receive instructor feedback in breakout sessions.