Business Analysis

Public Business Analysis Workshops

Earn a CERTIFICATE IN BUSINESS ANALYSIS. All classes are BABOK aligned (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge). Click on course title for dates and times of current schedule. Printable schedule (PDF)

 Core Principles for Business Analysis
Begin with the basics of business analysis, understanding its importance in the enterprise and the Business Analyst’s role in it. Students will develop feasibility studies and write a Business Case.  Learn to develop a solution’s scope and vision.

 Requirements Elicitation Methods and Models
Focus on how to define functions, attributes, constraints, preferences, and expectations from clients. Techniques to gather the requirements will start with Brainstorming and conclude with Reverse Engineering, with participants practicing at least five of the methods. Students will create models from case studies.

Successful Project Management
Learn techniques for planning, implementing, and completing projects to produce desired results on time and within budget. You will use project management tools to set and achieve measurable objectives, estimate project time and costs, determine project scope, manage resource requirements, and control project results. Learn by doing as you actually plan, execute and control a project simulation.

Running Productive Meetings
It's been said that more important decisions are made in meetings than anywhere else. You may find that hard to believe - in view of the way most meetings are planned and conducted. Participants will actually run a meeting in the class.

Prioritize or Agonize
This workshop focuses on the essential skills of prioritizing and time management necessary to reach personal and organizational goals. Managers will learn to identify and manage the important, the critical, and the merely diversionary and schedule for maximized performance

Working Effectively with Internal Customers
Business Analysts need to be equally skilled in work with “hard skills” like doing Feasibility Studies and defining and writing requirements and “soft skills” dealing with people. This class is for project managers and business analysts, helping them get a handle on some of the difficulties in dealing with internal customers. Students will work on recognizing who their internal customers are and how to effectively deal with them.

Process Mapping for Business Improvement
Use a wide range of mapping tools and techniques to find out how your business really works and where crucial improvements are needed.

MS Visio
Learn how to use Visio to visual model business processes. The course is filled with interactive exercises that help ensure student success.

Building 4-Dimensional Teams
Learn how to develop a high-performing team through recognizing and addressing the individual needs of members as well as collective needs of the group. Discover how a project/team leader's role changes as the team grows.

Financial Considerations for Business Decisions
Learn how to read and interpret financial statements (income statements, cash flow statements, and balance sheets), create cash and capital budgets, and communicate your business ideas through the appropriate financial language.

Quality Tools for Project Managers
Good Project Managers are always on the look-out for tools to help them more effectively manage their projects. This class uses hands on learning to explore quality tools that project managers can use in a wide variety of situations to enhance project success.

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