Overview:

Understanding business process, pain points, and opportunities for improvement is everyone’s job, even if your title isn’t “business analyst”. Being able to create efficiencies, reduce costs, and effectively communicate are professional skills that can be used in any position. This 2-day Business Analysis for Non Business Analysts course will help participants sharpen their ability to think critically, look at the big picture as well as drill down into the details. They will learn how to properly initiate, analyze and develop a conceptual design within a 2 day timeframe. Replete with both “hard” and “soft” skills, this course builds a sound strategy for analyzing business processes and demonstrates how to apply concepts and practical techniques within the context of an experiential learning environment.

Audience:

Those who need to learn practical systems thinking: project managers, decision makers, team leads, managers, information technology (IT) professionals, or other business professionals.

Prerequisites

None

Course duration:

2 days

Course outline:

1. Introduction

• Define Business Analysis and what it means in today’s environment
• Recognize the System Development Life Cycle and various approaches