Business Analysis Essentials

Advance from a complete novice to a confident Business Analyst with the help of an expert.

“I solve problems you don’t know you have, in ways you can’t understand” (I am a Business Analyst).

The role of the Business Analyst is much more complex than the people perceive it to be and sometimes it can be a challenge to understand all its facets.
This course is aimed to overcome this challenge, by systematically introducing you in the world of Business Analysis, using a simplistic approach with a lot of examples anchored in our day to day life.
Master the Business Analysis concepts

• System development life cycles
• Eliciting requirements
• Elicitation techniques
• Documenting requirements
• Writing quality requirements
• Communicating requirements

There are many benefits for understanding these concepts, as they stay at the core foundation of the Business Analysis activity. Even if you are already working as a Business Analyst, these concepts will help you become a more effective and valuable employee. By applying the techniques taught here in your daily job as a Business Analyst you will be able to produce quality requirements in a shorter period of time and obtain the sign off of your requirements quicker. All this will translate into a successful project.
Contents and Overview
This course contains over 40 lectures and more than 3 hours of contents. It is designed for beginners to intermediate Business Analysts, students with no prior experience or junior Business Analyst who want to have a solid foundation in their career.
Beside the theoretical concepts taught, the course is packed with practical examples that would help you understand the techniques in a fun and functional way.
By the end of this course, you will have all the skills required to embark on a career as a Business Analyst. You will know what techniques to employ and when in order to elicit the stakeholders’ requirements and to bring everyone to a consensus with respect to the business needs.
And finally, you will have an opportunity to test your knowledge gained by taking the quizzes that complement each section.
What are the requirements for this course?

• Just your willingness to learn

What am I going to get from this course?

• Over 40 lectures and 3 hours of content
• All Business Analysis fundamental knowledge
• Step by step instructions about how to prepare for a Business Analyst interview
• You will be able to be more effective and successful in your job as a Business Analyst

Who is the audience?

• Everyone who wants to gain basic knowledge about Business Analysis
• Students who want to pursue a Business Analyst career
• Junior or Intermediate Business Analysts who want to become more effective
• Senior Business Analysts who need a refresher of the Business Analysis core concepts

What are the requirements?

• No pre-requisites are required

What am I going to get from this course?

• Over 45 lectures and 3.5 hours of content!
• Understand and justify the role of Business Analyst
• Describe the Business Analyst's relationship with business and IT stakeholders
• Understand the projects life cycles and the role of Business Analyst within each of them
• Apprehend the importance of project definition and project scope
• Recognize the different type of requirements and the need for requirements documentation
• Understand the basic skills required to work as a Business Analyst and what the employers are looking for when hiring Business Analysts
• Decide whether Business Analysis is the right career choice for them
• Understand how to go about finding a position as a Business Analyst

What is the target audience?

• Anybody who is interested to discover what Business Analysis is about
• People who want to embark on a career as a Business Analyst
• Students who want to decide if Business Analysis is the right career choice
• Junior Business Analyst who want to build more confidence

Curriculum
Section 1: The Art and Science of Business Analysis
Lecture 1 Introduction 03:01
Lecture 2 What is Business Analysis? 04:00
Lecture 3 Role of Business Analyst 04:13
Lecture 4 Key terms 05:15
Lecture 5 What do you need to be successful? 05:50
Lecture 6 Conclusion 01:44
Quiz 1 The Art and Science of Business Analysis 4 questions
Section 2: Stakeholders Management
Lecture 7 Who are the actors? 06:10
Lecture 8 How to identify the stakeholders 04:18
Lecture 9 Understanding the stakeholders 01:57
Lecture 10 Classifying the stakeholders 03:35
Lecture 11 Conclusion 01:22
Lecture 12 Case Study - City Transit System Text
Section 3: Project evolution
Lecture 13 SDLC 04:10
Lecture 14 SDLC Models 11:12
Lecture 15 Business Analyst's role during SDLC 04:58
Lecture 16 Requirements in the context of SDLC 04:12
Lecture 17 Conclusion Section 3 01:47
Quiz 2 Project evolution 4 questions
Section 4: Requirements elicitation
Lecture 18 What is requirements elicitation? 03:03
Lecture 19 Poor requirements 09:49
Lecture 20 Impact of poor requirements 02:07
Lecture 21 Guidelines for quality requirements 03:03
Lecture 22 Conclusion 01:10
Quiz 3 Requirements elicitation 3 questions
Section 5: Elicitation process
Lecture 23 Preparing for elicitation 05:22
Lecture 24 Conducting the elicitation activity 05:10
Lecture 25 Elicitation techniques for gathering requirements 10:57
Lecture 26 Elicitation techniques for analyzing requirements 05:56
Lecture 27 Elicitation techniques for decisions making 09:08
Lecture 28 Conclusion 02:03
Quiz 4 Elicitation process 4 questions
Section 6: Requirements communication
Lecture 29 Communicating requirements 02:47
Lecture 30 Factors influencing the communication 04:20
Lecture 31 Conclusion 01:44
Section 7: Requirements documentation
Lecture 32 Documenting requirements 11:57
Lecture 33 Sign off 02:00
Lecture 34 Change control 02:43
Lecture 35 Requirements tools 03:01
Lecture 36 Conclusion 01:55
Lecture 37 Case Study - Dream Cafe Text
Section 8: Types of requirements
Lecture 38 Functional vs Non-Functional Requirements 03:41
Lecture 39 Conclusion 01:35
Section 9: Landing a job as a Business Analyst
Lecture 40 Required skills 08:02
Lecture 41 Finding a job posting 04:29
Lecture 42 Building your resume 04:53
Lecture 43 The interview 12:40
Lecture 44 Sample of questions Text
Section 10: Addendums
Lecture 45 Ambiguous Terms 1 page







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