Business Analysis Curriculum

When you bring Doreen Evans Associates business analyst training in-house, you give your team members the tools and knowledge they need to streamline projects and improve success. DEA offers a full curriculum of courses targeted to increasing the knowledge and skills of your business analysts, and on preparing them for the critical role that business analysts play in project success. DEA's courses are instructor-guided and include real-world practical examples and work sessions

DEA's curriculum begins with the three-day “Honing Business Analyst Skills” course. This course is targeted to both new and experienced business analysts, to ensure they have the necessary skills needed for the expanded role of the BA in today's world. From there, your organization may decide to take any of the other courses listed depending on the needs of projects or on the knowledge required of individual business analysts. Let us work with you to determine the scope of your organization's needs, establish an appropriate set of courses, and then set up a schedule for delivery.

In addition to the courses listed, we also offer additional advanced business analysis courses and seminars on specialized topics. All of our courses can be customized to meet the specific needs of individual organizations. Prices are available on request. For more information or to arrange to speak to a training specialist, email us at info@doreenevans.com.

Honing Business Analyst Skills
Course Number: NT-100
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills that business analysts need to be successful, including business requirements vs. system requirements vs. system design, requirements life cycle methodologies, techniques, deliverables, information gathering (documentation, interviewing, facilitation), analysis, and communication (both oral and written). The course will provide students with the fundamentals of the business analyst role and prepare them with the competencies they will need to employ throughout the requirements life cycle.
Length: 3 days

A Proven Requirements Life Cycle Process
Course Number: NT-200
This three-day course describes DEA's LINKProcess ™ for business analysis and requirements definition. This process, honed over 14 years of project work, has been tailored to include best practices for the requirements life cycle and to support each of the IIBA's Body of Knowledge areas. The process begins with understanding a business need, and includes the requirements review cycle and change management. Hands-on work sessions provide practice in applying the techniques. If your organization does not have an established process for the requirements life cycle, here is a place to begin. If your organization has a process, this course can be tailored to incorporate your terms, techniques and templates.
Length: 3 days

Building Enterprise Business Architectures
Course Number: NT-210
This two-day course includes a discussion of the importance of Enterprise Architectures as well as of various frameworks that can apply to different situations. It touches on topics such as identifying the scope, building business models, architecture standards, reference models, asset reuse, managing architecture change, and making the architecture available to business users. We show how to design and document the architecture that fits your needs, as well as how to build the information that will populate the architecture.
Length: 2 days

Business Process Modeling
Course Number: NT-220
Understanding and documenting business processes is critical for process improvement, for building requirements for change, or in preparation for meeting the goals of Sarbanes-Oxley. This two-day course teaches an approach for analyzing and documenting your business processes and explores using organization charts, events, process decomposition diagrams, and process flow maps. We'll show you how to add custom features to your process flow maps to capture opportunities for improvement, business rules, and risks and controls.
Length: 2 days

Use Cases for Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
Course Number NT-230
This two-day course introduces the concepts of use cases and describes how they can be used effectively. It covers such information as identifying use cases; completing a template for describing use cases; and building a diagram to illustrate the steps and decisions throughout the path of a use case. It will also touch on using use case scenarios to drive test scripts.
Length: 2 days

Object-Oriented Analysis
Course Number NT-240
This three-day course introduces the concepts of OOA and describes how you can build UML-compliant diagrams and definitions. The course focuses on use case diagrams, activity diagrams and class diagrams, but also includes design diagram types such as component diagrams and sequence diagrams.
Length: 3 days

Data Modeling and Database Design
Course Number NT-250
This two-day course teaches the basics of data modeling, including conceptual, logical and physical modeling techniques. You'll define entities and attributes, learn about subject areas and project data models, and how to transition from a logical to a physical model.
Length: 2 days

To be successful as a business analyst in today's world, the IIBA has defined several Body of Knowledge (BOK) areas that an individual must have knowledge of. Our curriculum is organized to address these areas as follows:

Body of Knowledge Area	Courses
1. Enterprise Analysis	Building Business Enterprise Architectures Business Process Modeling
2. Requirements Planning and Management	Honing BA Skills A Proven Requirements Analysis Process
3. Requirements Elicitation	Honing BA Skills A Proven Requirements Analysis Process Business Process Modeling Object Oriented Analysis Use Case Modeling Data Modeling and Database Design
4. Requirements Analysis and Documentation	Honing BA Skills A Proven Requirements Analysis Process Object Oriented Analysis Use Case Modeling Data Modeling and Database Design
5. Requirements Communication	Honing BA Skills A Proven Requirements Analysis Process
6. Solution Assessment and Validation	Honing BA Skills A Proven Requirements Analysis Process