Introduction to Business Analysis: Defining Successful Projects Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Poland (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level business and IT professionals who wish to learn how to write effective acceptance criteria for requirements.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the importance of acceptance criteria.
• Create and verify requirements acceptance criteria.
• Apply different methods for describing acceptance criteria.
• Ensure the quality of analytical artifacts.

Summary:

A business/systems analyst solves business problems by designing information systems which execute the strategy defined by the business. These IT solutions generally achieve one of the following goals for the business: implement a new business process, increase efficiency and productivity of existing business processes, or reduce operating costs of existing processes.

This course is intended for Business Analysts including those who may want to go on and prepare for an IIBA Certification (CCBA or CBAP) and is consistent with the framework outlined by the BABOK® Version 3.0

Objectives:

• Identify the critical principles, activities, tasks, and techniques outlined in the BABOK® V3.0
• Understand the core knowledge areas, activities, tasks, deliverables, and their relationships:

Key Definitions:

BABOK® (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) Standard for practice of business analysis and serving as a framework describing the tasks that must be performed.

CCBA® (Certified of Competency in Business Analysis) A certification offered through the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) requiring passing a test based on the BABOK® only after application approval which is based on education and experience.

CBAP®(Certified Business Analysis Professional) A certification offered through the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) requiring passing a test based on the BABOK® only after application approval which is based on education and experience.

Course Audience:

Managers who want to understand BPMN diagrams, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts and anyone who is involved in analyzing and planning Business Processes using standardized, unified modelling notation.

Course Goals:

• Produce high-quality process diagrams
• Model in the BPMN process notation
• Capture as-is process information
• Implement optimized process flows for people-intensive processes
• Simplify complex process definitions and break them into more manageable pieces

There are plenty of tried and tested patterns widely available to everyone. Sometimes it is a matter of changing the names and implementing the pattern in a specific technology. It can save hundreds of hours, which otherwise would be spent on design and testing. Training Goals This course has two goals: first, it allows you to reuse widely-known patterns, second, it allows you to create and reuse patterns specific to your organization. It helps you to estimate how patterns can reduce costs, systematize the design process and generate a code framework based on your patterns. Audience Software designers, business analysts, project managers, programmers and developers as well as operational managers and software division managers. Course Style The course focuses on use cases and their relationship with a specific pattern. Most of the examples are explained in UML and in simple Java examples (the language can change if the course is booked as a closed course). It guides you through the sources of the patterns as well as showing you how to catalogue and describe patterns which can be reused across your organization.

Insurtech (a.k.a Digital Insurance) refers to the convergence of insurance + new technologies. In the field of Insurtech "digital insurers" apply technology innovations to their business and operating models in order to reduce costs, improve the customer experience and enhance the agility of their operations.

In this instructor-led training, participants will gain an understanding of the technologies, methods and mindset needed to bring about a digital transformation within their organizations and in the industry at large. The training is aimed at managers who need to gain a big picture understanding, break down the hype and jargon, and take the first steps in establishing an Insurtech strategy.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Discuss Insurtech and all its component parts intelligently and systematically
• Identify and demystify the role of each key technology within Insurtech.
• Draft a general strategy for implementing Insurtech within their organization

Audience

• Insurers
• Technologists within the insurance industry
• Insurance stakeholders
• Consultants and business analysts

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and case study group activities

In this instructor-led, live training in Poland, participants will gain an understanding of the technologies, methods and mindset needed to implement a Fintech strategy.

This training is aimed at managers who need to gain a "big picture" understanding of Fintech, break down the hype and jargon, and take tangible first steps towards the adoption of new technologies applicable to financial business and services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to

• Present viable Fintech strategies for their organization.
• Understand and explain the role and functionality of key technologies.
• Draft an action plan for introducing new technologies in step-by-step fashion.

IREB plays an important role in standardizing requirements engineering practices, helping professionals in the field improve their skills and raising quality standards in software development processes. IREB certificates are valued in the industry as confirmation of high professional competences in management and requirements engineering.

Model Based Development (MBD) is a software development methodology that enables faster, more cost-effective development of dynamic systems such as control systems, signal processing and communication systems. It relies on graphic modeling rather than the traditional text based programming.

In this instructor-led, live training participants will learn how to apply MBD methodologies to reduce development costs and accelerate the time to market of their embedded software products.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to

• Select and utilize the right tools for implementing MBD.
• Use MBD to carry out rapid development in the early stages of their embedded software project.
• Shorten the release of their embedded software into the market.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Requirements engineering is the process of defining, collecting, documenting, managing and analyzing the needs, expectations and functionalities that should be implemented by a given system, product or IT project. Requirements engineering plays a key role in the success of IT projects because accurate, understandable and consistent requirements constitute the foundation for the system or product being created. Correctly understanding and precisely defining the needs of users and stakeholders is crucial to achieving customer satisfaction and the success of IT projects.

IREB CPRE (International Requirements Engineering Board - Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering) is a certification for professionals in the field of requirements engineering. This certification is intended to confirm knowledge, skills and experience in the area of management and requirements engineering in the software development process. Value of IREB CPRE Certification: Confirmation and recognition of knowledge, skills and experience in the area of requirements engineering. Standing out on the job market as a professional specializing in requirements management. Increased credibility and trust among employers, customers and colleagues.

This instructor-led, live training in Poland (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level business and IT professionals who wish to learn standardized methods for describing requirements.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand various types of requirements.
• Utilize effective methods for describing requirements.
• Apply recognized standards and templates.
• Communicate requirements effectively.

This instructor-led, live training in Poland (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level business and IT professionals who wish to enhance their skills in requirements management.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the key activities and products of requirements management.
• Apply effective techniques for requirements elicitation.
• Document requirements using appropriate methods and notations.
• Implement a requirements architecture and repository.

This instructor-led, live training in Poland (online or onsite) is aimed at persons who wish to understand requirements analysis and conduct requirements analysis efficiently and accurately using analysis techniques for their projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• identify different types of requirements.
• understand the overall concepts of, and activities within, requirements analysis.
• be familiar with the requirements analysis methodology.
• use different requirements analysis techniques to their advantage.
• structure requirements in order to communicate efficiently with architects and developers through an iterative requirement gathering process.

This course demonstrates through hands-on practice the fundamentals and applications of software engineering, requirements engineering and testing.

Purpose of the training
To learn the benefits of using use cases to describe system functionality.
To learn effective methods of obtaining functional requirements.
To acquire the ability to define functional requirements in UML notation (use case diagrams) and in the form of use case specifications.

Advantages 
Training conducted by an expert with several years of experience in the IT industry and extensive knowledge of IT processes.
Emphasis on practice - the necessary theory is supported by project practice, the topics discussed relate to real project situations.
Training conducted using tools used in requirements engineering, which gives the opportunity to learn the basic functionality of such tools. 
Possibility to apply the acquired knowledge already during the training.