Business Analysis Certificate Program
Business Analysis Leadership
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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.
Who should attend?
It is unusual to find executive trainers who have the combination of "best practices" knowledge and "real world" experience.
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- Graduates of the Business Process Analysis and Facilitation for Major Projects 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
Recommended Pre-requisite:
Certificate in Business Process Analysis and Facilitation for Major Projects or extensive experience in facilitating process modeling sessions
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: Enterprise Transformation Analysis.
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.
Faculty
Richard Branton
Richard is the Vice-President and Co-Founder of Advanced Strategies, Inc. which specializes in facilitating solutions in complex, political, and major transformation efforts for Fortune 500 and large government institutions. Richard has led the development of methodologies and training for business and technology transformation for Advanced Strategies, and prior to 1988 for Southern Company (one of the largest power generators in the nation). He is an acclaimed speaker, executive coach, and industry expert in business transformation and leadership, and has been inducted into the Information Users Association's Hall of Fame.
Edward L. Wynn, PMP
Ed has spent his almost twenty-year career successfully leading and managing IT and business projects at consulting firms, large government agencies and fortune 500 companies. After working as a Senior Project Manager/ Technical Lead Consultant with Price Waterhouse, Ed joined Advanced Strategies, Inc. in 1994, and is the custodian for advancing, documenting and training on Advanced Strategies' approaches for Project Management, Project Leadership, Soft Skills, and Facilitation. Ed has led many multi-million dollar business transformation initiatives.
Duration and Costs?
- Duration: 5 Days
- Cost: $3,500
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.
Registration Options
Please call 866-238-0756 if a discount applies.
Business Analysis Leadership
| Date | Location | Registration | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10 - 14, 2010 | Atlanta | Register soon | Overview |
| September 13 - 17, 2010 | Atlanta | Register soon | Overview |
Contact Information
University of Georgia
Executive Education Center in Atlanta
One Live Oak Center
3475 Lenox Road
