[Free] What Is Business Analysis For Information Technology (It)
An Overview of Business Analysis Activities and Current Business Analysis Techniques – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Identify and categorize business analysis best practices
- Identify the value of good requirements
- Classify four requirement types
- Identify the critical skills required by business analysts
- Describe tools used in business analysis
- Relate the evolving role of today’s business analyst
- Discuss how SDM’s like Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile affect business analysis activities
Requirements
- Interest in the field of business analysis
- No technical background required
- Desire to understand business analysis tools and techniques currently in use
- Need to understand the impact that System Development Methods (SDM) have on business analysis activities
- No additional materials are required
Description
Business Analysis in the Real WorldA Buddhist proverb warns, “Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.” In a very real sense, this statement expresses the reason for business analysis. This discipline is really all about choosing and defining a desired future because without intention (expressed in business analysis terms, “requirements”), no future is more or less desirable than another.
Current Business Analysis Techniques and Methods
The course defines how business analysis is currently practiced. The authors provide insight into this fast-growing field by distinguishing strategic, tactical, and operational business analysis. It provides surveys of what Business Analysts really do and what business analysis techniques people use most often when they are the one “wearing the BA hat”. You will learn what “requirements” really are and what different types of requirements exist. Because many requirements define future information technology (IT) solutions, the authors share their experience on how Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and Experimental (aka “Chaotic”) Software Development methodologies impact the business analysis responsibility.
Who Needs Business Analysis Skills?
Although the field of Business Analysis offers great career opportunities for those seeking employment, some level of business analysis skill is essential for any adult in the business world today. Many of the techniques used in the field evolved from earlier lessons learned in systems analysis and have proven themselves to be useful in every walk of life. We have personally experienced how business analysis techniques help even in your private life.
We created this course for everyday people in the real world to give you a basic understanding of some core business analysis methods and concepts. If this course answers some of your questions, great. If it raises more questions than it answers (implying that it piqued your curiosity), even better. If it motivates you to learn more about this emerging and fascinating topic, it has served its purpose well.
Author(s): Tom and Angela Hathaway
