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Building a Successful Business Analysis Work Plan

Effective Project Management Skills for Business Analysts
 
Course: 912   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop a work plan that successfully addresses the needs of a business analyst (BA)
  • Quickly integrate the BA role into the overall project strategy
  • Apply planning best practices to get projects done on time and within budget
  • Construct a work plan that aligns with the goals of stakeholders
  • Create realistic estimates that account for uncertainty
  • Keep the project on track while meeting stakeholder expectations

Course Benefits

Whether starting from a project's inception or entering a project after it has been established, business analysts must seamlessly integrate their work into the project planning process. To do this successfully requires a well-developed and executed work plan. In this course, you learn practical project management methods, tools and techniques to adapt a work plan to the needs of the project and its stakeholders.

Who Should Attend

Business analysts, those who perform the functions of a business analyst or anyone who wants to make a successful contribution to a project.

RealityPlus
An evolving case study immerses you in an authentic project environment, providing practical experience in building a business analysis work plan. Activities include:

  • Defining the traits of successful project contributors
  • Developing a stakeholder communication plan
  • Creating well-defined project tasks
  • Calculating the critical path
  • Estimating tasks within appropriate tolerance
  • Securing resource commitments from stakeholders
  • Assessing and communicating risks
  • Presenting your work plan
  • Creating a personal action plan for future use

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  • 212 Building an Effective Business Case
  • 315 Developing User Requirements
  • 218 User Requirements for Software Development
  • 447 Introduction to Modelling for Business Analysis
  • 943 Strategic Enterprise Analysis
  • 901 Introduction to Business Intelligence
  • 213 Introduction to Knowledge Management
  • 381 Business Process Re-engineering

 
RealityPlus is a trademark of Learning Tree International. BABOK is a registered trademark owned by International Institute of Business Analysis.
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Building a Successful Business Analysis Work Plan

Effective Project Management Skills for Business Analysts
 
Course: 912   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 
Course Content
 

The Role of the Business Analyst

Defining your role

  • Examining the BABOK® framework
  • Pinpointing where you are in the product life cycle
  • Establishing your relationship with the project manager
  • Gathering information to get started quickly

Making a commitment to the project

  • Uncovering the six traits of successful project contributors
  • Determining the requirements for effective personal project management

The Planning Process

Key functions of a planner

  • Exploring the makeup of a solid BA plan
  • Devising change procedures
  • Creating the stakeholder communication system
  • Synchronising your plan with the overall project plan

Jump-starting the process

  • Formulating the right questions
  • Eliciting project constraints
  • Assessing impact on business

Influences on the planning process

  • Juggling the triple constraint
  • Development methodologies
  • Stakeholder concerns

Communicating effectively

  • Fostering relationships and trust
  • Discovering your communication style
  • Sizing up stakeholders
  • Delivering your message for optimal results

Building the Work Plan

Initiating your project

  • Conducting stakeholder analysis
  • Determining objectives
  • Defining the scope of work

Planning the tasks

  • Generating a task list
  • Developing the WBS
  • Listing task attributes and characteristics
  • Devising acceptance criteria

Constructing task dependencies

  • Identifying critical and slack paths
  • Making resource and scheduling decisions

Assigning resources

  • Assessing resource requirements
  • Utilising a resource allocation matrix

Outcomes of the Planning Process

  • Deriving the schedule with a Gantt Chart
  • Calculating the budget

Creating Accurate Estimates

Estimating effort, duration and costs

  • What constitutes a good estimate?
  • Examining project scope, requirements and the WBS to make estimates

Key considerations that affect your project

  • Collaborating to encourage ownership of the estimate
  • Incorporating a WBS
  • Accounting for time/cost trade-offs
  • Employing top-down vs. bottom-up estimating
  • Raising the level of accuracy with three-point estimates

Managing Risks

Increasing the probability of success

  • Leveraging a Risk Analysis Questionnaire
  • Communicating the results

Analysing potential problems

  • Brainstorming adverse consequences
  • Adding preventive and contingent actions into your plan

Executing the Plan

Managing stakeholder expectations

  • Controlling scope creep, leak and seep
  • Reporting progress

Addressing resistance to change

  • Recognising reasons behind resistance to change
  • Defusing resistance

Keeping your piece of the project on track

  • Resolving problems with a risk register
  • Setting up briefing boards

Applying Lessons Learned for Future Projects

  • Evaluating project objectives
  • Documenting methods for continued improvement
 
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Building a Successful Business Analysis Work Plan Tuition

Effective Project Management Skills for Business Analysts
 
Course: 912   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 

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