Business Analysis Mastery
“Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a person for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.”
Overview
The Business Analysis Mastery program develops junior business analysts and talented novices into master business analysts, able to apply a broad array of disciplines to the analysis of any project or enterprise.
This 12-month program provides a combination of group training, one-on-one coaching, and personal development strategy sessions. The program objective is to create substantial, long-lasting growth in the participant's business analysis and organizational capabilities.
The group training consists of 84 class-hours distributed as follows:
- Business Analysis Foundations (21 hours)
- Agile Business Analysis (7 hours)
- Systems Analysis with UML (14 hours)
- Data Modeling (14 hours)
- Business Process Management (14 hours)
- Business Strategy & Architecture (14 hours)
Each participant also receives 12 one-on-one coaching sessions and 7 strategy sessions with an expert business analysis coach.
Additionally, the participant will have lifetime access to NorwalkAberdeen's online community, business analysis library, and free access to all on-demand courses.
Business Analysis Foundations
3 hours per week over 7 weeks
The Business Analysis Foundations class introduces new business analysts to the field and establishes a baseline level of knowledge in key subject areas.
Topics include:
- Identifying, prioritizing, and working with stakeholders
- Life cycles: System, project, product, and requirement
- Requirements: Types, attributes, and qualities
- Requirement documentation styles
- Information elicitation methods
- Analysis of requirements, systems, and processes
- Modeling of problem and solution spaces
- Requirement socialization and acceptance
- Change control and requirement maintenance
Agile Business Analysis
1 hour per week over 7 weeks
Organizations of all sizes are adopting Agile's iterative, customer-focused approach to product and system development. Agile Business Analysis provides program participants with a solid grounding in how business analysis can be performed in agile project environments, without getting bogged down with extensive documentation and old habits.
Topics include:
- Being Agile: Values and principles
- Doing Agile: Methods and frameworks
- Agile roles: Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master
- User stories, features, and epics
- Story splitting and story mapping
- Product strategy
- Forging an effective business analyst role
- Project
Systems Analysis with UML
2 hours per week over 7 weeks
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Topics include:
- DRAFT LIST
- Systems
- Object-oriented analysis and design
- Structural analysis and modeling
- Behavioral analysis and modeling
- Project
Data Modeling
2 hours per week over 7 weeks
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Topics include:
- DRAFT LIST
- The big picture: How it all fits together
- Conceptual data models
- Logical data models
- Physical data models
- Data in motion: inputs, outputs, stores, processes, and flows
- Project
Business Process Management
2 hours per week over 7 weeks
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Topics include:
- Business processes and life cycles
- Methodologies: Six Sigma, DMAIC and DMADV, Lean
- Modeling concepts
- Tools: Swim lane flowcharts and BPMN extensions
- Project: Re-engineering a flawed process
Business Strategy & Architecture
2 hours per week over 7 weeks
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Topics include:
- DRAFT LIST
- The enterprise and markets
- Investment: Portfolio management for BAs
- Business architecture: The organization's blueprint
- Architectural perspectives and views
- Enterprise analysis and modeling
- Project