The Robust Digital Expert Business Analyst

Chapter 1: Business Analysis
  • Introduction 
  • The origins of business analysis 
  • The scope of business analysis work 
  • The role and responsibilities of a business analyst 
  • The Business analysis maturity model
  • Professionalism and business analyst 
  • The Future of the business analyst 
  • Introduction
  • The Context for Strategy Analysis 
  • What is Strategy 
  • Strategy Development 
  • External environment analysis 
  • Internal environment analysis 
  • SWOT analysis 
  • Executing Strategy 
  • Investigating and documenting business solutions
  • Stakeholders analysis and business perspectives 
  • Modelling business activities 
  • Business events 
  • Business rules
  • Gap analysis 
  • Rational for making a business case
  • Contents of a business case
  • Options
  • The financial case
  • Risk analysis 
  • Impact analysis
  • Lifecycle for the business case 
  • Introduction 
  • Stakeholders categories and identification 
  • Stakeholders management strategies
  • Summary of stakeholder’s management strategies
  • Managing stakeholders 
  • Defining Stake holder involvement - RACI and RASCI charts 
  • Using Social media in stakeholder management 
  • Understanding stakeholder perspectives
  • Introduction 
  • Organisational context
  • An alternative view of an organisation
  • The organisational view of business processes 
  • Value propositions
  • Business process models 
  • Analysing the 'as is' process 
  • Improving business processes
  • Process measurement 
  • Business Process Model and Notation 
  • Six Sigma
     
  • Define requirements
  • Requirement engineering
  • Requirements elicitation 
  • Requirement analysis 
  • Requirement validation 
  • Requirements development 
  • Requirements modelling 
  • Requirements management and documentation 
     
  • Change control
  • Version control 
  • Tools inn requirements management
  • Types of requirements
  • Documenting requirements
  • Modelling System data
  • Entity relationship diagrams
  • Class models
  • Modelling in Agile approaches
  • The use of models in system maintenance 
     
  • Delivering the solution
  • Context
  • Delivery Lifecycle 
  • Development and delivery approach 
  • Roles
  • Deliverables
  • Techniques 
  • Stages of the business change lifecycle 
  • BA role in the business change lifecycle 
     
  • Types of SDLCs
  • Waterfall Model
  • Incremental SDLCs
  • Agile Methodology
     
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