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Business Analysis Certificate Program

Business Analysis for Everyday Projects

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 Training Hours.

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Who should attend?

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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Duration and Costs?

• Duration: 5 Days
• Cost: $3,000

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Course Summaries

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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.

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Registration Options

Date	Location	Registration	More Info
November 3 – 7, 2008	Atlanta	Register now	Overview
February 23 – 27, 2009	Atlanta	Register now	Overview

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Office of Executive Programs
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Executive Education Center in Atlanta
One Live Oak Center
3475 Lenox Road
Atlanta, GA 30326
404-842-4853
404-842-4848 (fax)
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Christina Allen
110 E. Clayton Street
Suite 602
706-425-3051
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