Training: Preparation to the ECBA certification – Entry Certificate In Business Analysis

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Fundamental

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Description

The BABoK® Guide v3 (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) is the most globally recognized framework for business analysis. It covers all tasks a business analyst should know and control; all these 30 tasks being groups into 6 knowledge areas (Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Lifecycle Management, Strategy Anaysis, Requirements Analysis and Design Definition, and Solution Evaluation).

The role of business analyst has been dramatically extended with the 3rd version of the BABoK® Guide. She/he is enabling a change anywhere in an organization in a form of a project or continual improvement, understanding current state, defining future state and determining activities to move to future state.

A theoretical review will be accompanied by a series of questions to carefully prepare you to acquire certification. It is important to notice that intensive home work is required after the course in order to assimilate all the topics covered by the examination, volume of information being fairly large (including the coverage of 50+ techniques).

Participant profiles

Individuals entering the BA profession
Professionals transitioning careers
Functional managers who are not BAs but manage them

Objectives

Learn and align your own skills to the principles, activities, tasks and techniques described in the six knowledge areas within the BABOK® Guide
Get familiar with the structure of the BABOK® Guide
Apply tasks and techniques from all 6 knowledge areas to business scenarios
Adapt the BABOK® Guide usage according to 5 perspectives
Assess your ability to pass one of the three level-based exam (ECBA™)

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Course content

Module 1: Introduction to the BABoK® Guide and the Business Analysis

Lesson 1: Purpose and structure of the BABoK® Guide
Lesson 2: What is business analysis and business analyst role?

Module 2: Key concepts

Lesson 1: Business Analysis Core Concept Model™
Lesson 2: Requirements Classification Schema
Lesson 3: Stakeholders
Lesson 4: Definition of Requirements and Design

Module 3: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

Lesson 1: As any professional, a business anlyst must identify, estimate, organize, coordinate efforts of business analyst and his stakeholders.
Lesson 2: When planned tasks are carried out, the business analyst has to analyze and report about business analysis activities performance.
Lesson 3:Tasks:
Plan business analysis approach
Plan Stakeholder engagement
Plan business analysis governance
Plan business analysis information management
Identify business analysis performance improvements

Module 4: Elicitation and collaboration

Lesson 1: Obtain information from stakeholders or other sources and make the results confirmed.
Lesson 2: Ensures that all stakeholders are working together towards a common goal with satisfaction.
Lesson 3: Tasks
Prepare for elicitation
Conduct elicitation
Confirm elicitation results
Communicate business analysis information
Manage stakeholder collaboration

Module 5: Requirements Life Cycle Management

Lesson 1: Requirements may evolve and the business analyst has to manage and maintain them from inception to retirement.
Lesson 2: Relationship between requirements and design must be established when changes are proposed, and consensus on changes have to be gained.
Lesson 3: Tasks
Trace requirements
Maintain requirements
Prioritize requirements
Assess requirements changes
Approve requirements

Module 6: Strategy Analysis

Lesson 1: Strategy defines the best way to use capabilities of an organization to reach desired goals and objectives
Lesson 2: Business analyst works with stakeholders to identify a strategical or tactical need and enables the enterprise to address it
Lesson 1:Tasks
Analyse current state
Define future state
Assess risks
Define change strategy

Module 7: Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

Lesson 1: Business analyst has to structure, organize, specify and model elicited requirements, validate and verify information and identify solution approach to meet business needs.
Lesson 2: Tasks:
Specify and model requirements
Verify requirements
Validate requirements
Define requirements architecture
Define design options
Analyse potential value and recommend solution

Module 8 – Solution evaluation

Lesson 1: Business analyst will assess the performance of and the value delivered by a solution.
Lesson 2: Tasks
Measure solution performance
Analyse performance measures
Assess solution limitations
Assess enterprise limitations
Recommend actions to increase solution value

Module 9 :Underlying competencies

Lesson 1: Description of behaviours, characteristics, knowledge and personal qualities a business analyst should have.
Lesson 2: Soft skills

Module 10: Techniques

Lesson 1: 50 shared techniques

Module 11: Perspectives

Lesson 1: Define focus to tasks and techniques to be used and adapted according to the context of the initiative. Some additional techniques are proposed per perspective.
Agile
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Business Architecture
Business Process Management

Module 12: Starting-up preparation for the examination.

Documentation

Printed slides to review and take notes
Official publication “BABoK, A guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® v3”
Exam preparation guide “CBAP® Certification Study Guide v3.0”

Lab / Exercises

These exercices listed here are indicative and may be completed with complementary labs depending on participants’ objectives and available time. Exercices are applying some of the 50 shared techniques.

Lab 1: Business Capability Analysis
Lab 2: Business Model Analysis
Lab 3: Data Modelling
Lab 4: Process Modelling
Lab 5: Risk Analysis and Management
Lab 6: Sequence Diagram
Lab 7: State Diagram
Lab 8: SWOT Analysis

Exam

IIBA® has defined four levels of certification depending on the number year of experience in Business Analysis:

ECBA™: Level 1: Entry Certificate in Business Analysis™
Exam: 1 hour, 50 multiple choice questions

To pass your examination based on the BABoK® Guide v3, you will need to follow the following process:

Ensure if you are eligible for the appropriate level of credential
Fill out the application form. From level 2, this includes the list of your experiences and persons of reference
Prepare yourself for the exam (simulate exam with several complete sets of multiple choice questions)
IIBA™ will need to validate your application form
Proceed to payment
Schedule your exam at an accredited test center near your location when you are ready

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