Business Analysis Certificate Program
Business Analysis for Everyday Projects
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Program Overview
The majority of projects are small, one-analyst efforts that are repeated again and again. Even though they are limited in scope and generally do not attract a lot of attention, collectively they are critical to the effectiveness of the business.
This curriculum enables attendees to successfully collect, confirm and manage requirements while minimally impacting the business customer.
At the same time, it introduces them to underlying principles they can build on as they move to the next, more complex level of business analysis.
This course will provide you with 3.5 Continuing Education Units, 35 PMI PDUs and 35 IIBA CDUs.
Who should attend?
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- Professionals who typically work on stand-alone, one-person efforts
- Analysts who typically perform all the work of the project, including design and development
- Analysts working on small, minimally-political business problems, including:
- Producing reports, spreadsheets, or charts for a manager.
- Producing a Powerpoint presentation.
- Researching and acquiring an inexpensive product.
- Specifying small changes to computer applications.
How will this benefit you and your organization?
Graduates will be prepared to:
- Elicit and document accurate, complete requirements for everyday projects such as reports, spreadsheets and application fixes.
- Use the results of their analysis to develop and deliver solutions for individual or team-oriented projects.
- Apply the basic framework and a subset of the skills more experienced analysts use on larger, complex projects. This program provides a strong base to build on analysts advance in their career.
- Receive a Certificate in Business Analysis for Everyday Projects.
What topics are covered?
This curriculum equips analysts to:
- Apply the methods, knowledge and skills necessary to successfully work with their business customer, understand and clarify the problem, and specify a potential solution
- Avoid re-work due to incomplete or inadequate requirements.
- Minimize impact on business managers and practitioners due to mistakes.
- Use small, structured and instrumented meetings to understand needs and elicit requirements.
- Use tools such as prototypes, mark-ups, observation and scenarios to elicit and confirm requirements.
- Plan, estimate and manage their own work as well as interactions with stakeholders.
- Adjust to political and resource realities.
Faculty
Gail DeCosta
Gail is a senior business analyst, specializing in process redesign at Advanced Strategies, Inc. She has an incredible 24-year career facilitating process analysis sessions for numerous Fortune 500 companies and government agencies for IT projects, as well as on large business reengineering efforts. She teaches techniques that can be used on everyday projects to the more complex, using a staged-approach to process analysis that was used on major projects such as the redesigning of the NY State Central accounting system, defining requirements for the National Cancer Surveillance registry and many others complex, critical initiatives. Gail holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Brown University and a Master's Degree in Education for Georgia State University.
Fran Caggiano-Swenson, CBAP
Fran has more than ten years experience in the analysis, design, and development of systems utilizing a variety of business analysis techniques, including process improvement, organization redesign, systems and functional, and data analysis. As a senior consultant and facilitator for Advanced Strategies, she has led numerous analysis efforts for Fortune 500 and large government entities as well as teaching all of the business analysis courses. Fran is a certified business analysis professional through the International Institute of Business Analysis, and has spoken at several IIBA and 'BA World' events, and is one of the co-authors of the Business Analysis for Everyday Project Course. Fran teaches business analysis at the 'everyday' level to facilitation for process analysis sessions for major, complex projects.
Duration and Costs?
- Duration: 5 Days
- Cost: $3,000
Course Summaries
View Syllabus (PDF | 31 KB)
| Course | Description | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Business Analysis Methods & Techniques for Everyday Projects | Learn to apply a structured framework and techniques for refining requirements to a wide variety of small business problems where consensus or political issues are not dominant. Develop the skills to take an assignment from clarification of the need (definition) through the analysis and ultimately, implementation. Additionally, learn techniques for working with business practitioners or managers to understand and document requirements, and with developers and others as needed to produce and QA the final solution. | 3 days |
| Requirements Planning & Management for Everyday Projects | Understand highlights of the business analysis discipline and how it fits within the problem-solving/solution-development process. Learn how to develop and manage defensible plans and schedules for the requirements stage of projects, including developing a simple business case. Includes topics on self-management, the project process, sizing, scheduling and adjusting to political and resource realities. Also includes how to apply a structured, intellectually-manageable approach to every project to ensure consistency and thoroughness. | 2 days |
A business analyst is a liaison: A person who initiates and maintains communication between different groups or units of an organization.
Registration Options
Please call 866-238-0756 if a discount applies.
| Date | Location | Registration | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 22 – 26, 2010 | Atlanta | Register soon | Overview |
| November 8 – 12, 2010 | Atlanta | Register soon | Overview |
Contact Information
University of Georgia
Executive Education Center in Atlanta
One Live Oak Center
3475 Lenox Road
