BUSINESS ANALYST TRAINING

ACCELERATED REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION: TRAINING AND TECHNIQUES FOR BUSINESS ANALYSTS

This business analyst course can be attended by technical and non-technical people. Our approach is intensive, practical, and leaves students with a series of techniques that can be immediately applied to improve productivity. We make extensive use of case studies so that students use the techniques and experience applying these in a workgroup setting. This program is designed to give a framework for asking the right questions at the right time and be able to organize and validate requirements elicited from stakeholders. We also provide techniques (and, if desired, templates) to document these requirements in a format that can be used by development teams.

Specific content includes:

A little theory: What is the SDLC and where does it fit in structured development? How does this improve the process of development? How do people typically look at the problem of collecting requirements?
Core techniques: Look at techniques for breaking large projects into manageable component parts and experience approaches for eliciting requirements. Also, how do you test the completeness of the requirements specified to determine if there are gaps?
Transformation techniques: How do you elicit the information needed to produce a logical data model, data flow diagram or data dictionary from stakeholders in a non-technical way?
Documentation templates: What information is needed to complete a needs analysis or business requirements document? How do you transfer from elicitation techniques into documentation?
Integrating into your SDLC: Some companies have complex systems development lifecycles. If your company uses the RUP standard and has adopted USE CASES, we show your students how to document in a format that fits this SDLC. We show how to be conscious of seamlessly transitioning into the next steps down the development path.
Running the elicitation session: what do you need to accomplish and how is an elicitation session typically managed? This gives students a flavor for how these are executed so that they can be effective participants in a session.

While Digital Mosaic has completed the analyst training program in 2 days, we highly recommend 3 days to complete this program. This allows us to adopt a better pace of learning, increase the time spent in case studies with students performing work using these techniques, and increase the time available to discussing how this integrates into your systems development lifecycle (SDLC).

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