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Business Analysis Certificate Program

Business Analysis Leadership

Program Overview

Major analysis efforts require planning, leadership, and guidance in order to deliver success despite constrained resources and restricted access to business practitioners and management.

This curriculum equips business analysts with the leadership skills needed to successfully lead the analysis portions of major efforts.

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?

• Graduates of the Business Process Analysis certificate program
• Leaders of major business analysis efforts
• Internal or external consultants
• Analysts who need to lead, but do not have explicit authority
• Those who want to insure that all the affected stakeholders are fully committed to the project and its successful outcome
• Those who are, or aspire to become, lead analysts, business architects, enterprise portfolio managers, enterprise architects, or change agents

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Recommended Pre-requisite:

Certificate in Business Process Analysis or extensive experience in facilitating process modeling sessions

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How this will benefit you and your organization?

Graduates will be prepared to:

• Organize and lead business analysts and other stakeholders in successful efforts.
• Maximize the benefit to the organization of the time and resources committed to discovering, assessing and specifying functional business needs.
• Interview and interact with stakeholders effectively.
• Provide leadership to other analysts and to the project, even without the designated authority.
• Receive a Certificate in Business Analysis Leadership.
• Proceed to the next level of the curriculum: Business Transformation Analysis.

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What topics are covered?

This curriculum equips analysts with necessary process, knowledge and skills to:

• Direct the activities of a team of business analysts.
• Work with potentially challenging business partners and project managers.
• Plan and lead the analysis portion of projects, while applying interpersonal and interviewing skills, among others.
• Translate models to a format that can be used to evaluate and score proposed solution alternatives.
• Learn the business and key drivers of your internal or external customers.
• Ensure business analysis objectives for the project are realized and requirements are met.

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Duration and Costs?

• Duration: 5 Days
• Cost: $3,500

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Course Summaries

View Syllabus (PDF | 29 KB)

Course	Description	Length
How to Lead an Analysis Effort	Learn the role of lead analyst, including leadership, planning analysis efforts, organizing and directing analysts, managing analysis risks, and appraising the results of analysis.	2 days
Soft Skills for Business Analysts	Learn how to learn the business of the client organization, such as understanding the organization's key drivers and special vocabulary. Understand how to approach the customer and inspire confidence while supporting their responsibility for their company's business policies/practices. Includes basic principles of human interactions, such as interviewing, leading teams, planning work and managing conflict.	2 days
Evaluating Proposed Solutions	Learn to translate business analysis models into formats used for ranking and prioritizing requirements, evaluating vendors, and assessing final products. Covers the lead business analyst's role in helping to ensure a project's expected benefits are realized and requirements are met.	1 day

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates that more than 25% of the working population will have reached retirement age by the year 2010, leaving a potential worker shortage of close to ten million.

Adapting to a changing workforce requires clear documentation of business processes, strong leadership and an ability to facilitate cultural change.

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Registration Options

Business Analysis Leadership

Date	Location	Registration	More Info
May 11 - 15, 2009	Atlanta	Register now	Overview
September 14 - 18, 2009	Atlanta	Register soon	Overview
May 10 - 14, 2010	Atlanta	Register soon	Overview
September 13 - 17, 2010	Atlanta	Register soon	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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PROGRAM MANAGER

Christina Allen
110 E. Clayton Street
Suite 602
706-425-3051
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