CLASS ONE: Developing Business Acumen

Basics

Build business acumen

Understand common terminology

Know the basics of your business

Your Business Model

Define your products and services

Build your offerings

Price strategy

Growth strategy

Your Financials

Understand profit and loss

Know your performance levers

Assess trends

Your Strategy

Assess the competitive environment

Define how you'll compete and win

Evaluate your initiative pipeline

Set priorities

Your Operation

Know your operations

Consider how you sell and market

Understand research and development

Develop new products

Manage people

CLASS TWO: Business Analysis Foundation

Overview of Business Analysis

What is business analysis?

Understanding what business analysts do 

Understanding the skills business analysts use

Adopting a business analyst mindset

Initiating the Project

Exploring the business analysis initiation phase

Defining the business problem or opportunity

Defining the business objective

Capturing business information

Understanding your stakeholders

Designing your requirements

Understanding the requirements pyramid

Exploring requirement types

Planning and Collecting Requirements

Building the requirements plan

Gather requirements

Interviewing to gather requirements

Brainstorming to gather requirements

Observing a job to gather requirements

Surveying to expand project requirements

Producing business rules and requirement traceability

Building requirement traceability into the plan

Determining when you have enough requirements

Creating a requirements package

Validating and Controlling Your Requirements During Project Execution

Verifying your requirements

Exploring requirement-verification techniques

Creating procedure manuals and documentation

Measuring verification activities

Developing project acceptance criteria