Business Analysis Boot Camp

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The Business Analysis Profession
* IIBA® and the BABOK®
* What is Business Analysis?
* Business and Solution Domains—how they relate
* Key roles in requirements development
* The competencies of the Business Analyst
* Distinguishing novice and expert Business Analysts
* Effective communication
* Six important BA skills
* Practice sessions

The Business Case for Good Requirements
* What is a good requirement?
* Requirements attributes—who needs them?
* Key practices that promote excellent requirements
* The cost of requirements errors
* Requirements engineering overview
* Practice sessions

Foundations of Requirements Development
* Key terms in requirements development
* A strategy for analyzing systems
* Common requirement-classification schemes
* The three parts of a system
* Levels and types of requirements
* The importance of traceability
* Understanding the business context of projects
* Practice sessions

Project Initiation: Eliciting High-level and Mid-level Requirements
* Understanding product vision and project scope
* Identifying and describing project stakeholders
* Modeling the business
* Identifying systems and actors
* Determining scope
* Understanding and identifying use cases
* Taking the Agile approach: writing user stories
* Identifying and defining data
* Documenting business rules
* Finding quality attributes
* Practice sessions

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Improving Requirements Quality
* Requirements quality
* Common problems with requirements
* Analyze for ambiguity
* Requirements inspection, analysis and improvement
* Defining and documenting the project scope
* Practice sessions

Eliciting Detailed Requirements
* Overview of requirements-elicitation techniques
* Decompose processes to lowest levels
* Document analysis
* Modeling processes to generate interview questions
* Interviewing the stakeholders
* Documenting the interview and resulting requirements
* Adding detail to requirements we already have
* Refine and rewrite for clarity
* Practice sessions

Documenting Requirements with Use Cases
* Use case basics
* Ways to identify use cases
* Use cases and requirements
* Usage narrative
* Anatomy of a fully dressed use case
* Writing effective use case narratives
* Understanding sub-use cases
* Linking use cases for larger or more complex systems
* Use case quality
* Avoiding common traps and pitfalls
* Practice sessions

Packaging and Presenting Requirements
* Organizing and packaging requirements
* Presenting requirements for review
* Baselining the requirements
* Getting to consensus and approval
* Conduct formal and informal reviews
* Documenting requirements in a Requirements Specification
* Practice sessions