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
Chapter 2: Strategy Analysis
- Introduction
- The Context for Strategy Analysis
- What is Strategy
- Strategy Development
- External environment analysis
- Internal environment analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Executing Strategy
Chapter 3: Business Analysis Techniques
- Investigating and documenting business solutions
- Stakeholders analysis and business perspectives
- Modelling business activities
- Business events
- Business rules
- Gap analysis
Chapter 4: Business Case Development
- Rational for making a business case
- Contents of a business case
- Options
- The financial case
- Risk analysis
- Impact analysis
- Lifecycle for the business case
Chapter 5: Stakeholders Analysis and Management
- 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
Chapter 6: Modelling Business Processes
- 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
Chapter 7: Business Analysis Requirements Part 1
- Define requirements
- Requirement engineering
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirement analysis
- Requirement validation
- Requirements development
- Requirements modelling
- Requirements management and documentation
Chapter 8: Business Analysis Requirements Part 2
- 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
Chapter 9: Delivering the Requirements
- 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
Chapter 10: Software Development Methodologies (SDLCs)
- Types of SDLCs
- Waterfall Model
- Incremental SDLCs
- Agile Methodology
