Plan the Project as a Business Analyst – IIBA Endorsed

Increase your value as a Business Analyst by learning how to plan projects successfully without a Project Manager

Created by: The BA Guide | Jeremy Aschenbrenner
Business Analysis Trainer, Best Selling Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Gain the ability to identify, analyze, manage, and involve stakeholders based on their needs and the needs of the project
• Learn how to create a Project Charter and facilitate an official project kickoff
• Learn how to create a requirements management plan by defining the level of detail, storage and access, traceability, reuse, the project change control process
• Understand how to break down the large project into workable activities
• Learn various estimation techniques to estimate the effort to complete the project
• Gain the ability to create both an adaptive (agile) or predictive (waterfall) project schedule
• Understand how to complete a Quality Plan that outlines expectations for testing and quality assurance, managing defects, and training
• Learn how to conduct release planning for both adaptive (agile) and predictive (waterfall) projects
• Gain the ability to identify and set performance measure for both the project and for business analysis

Requirements

• No Business Analysis experience necessary, but it is recommended (not required) that you have taken the first two courses in the Business Analysis Process Series, "Identify and Define the Problem" and "Conduct a Strategy Analysis"

Target audience

• Aspiring or current Business Analysts
• Aspiring or current Project Managers
• Business professionals who are involved in projects and want to understand how to better assist within them
• Business professionals who are tasked with planning or running company projects