In the course of my career I’ve worn different hats: photo retoucher, package designer, web designer, project manager, to name a few. Although that list may not be as varied as “web designer”, “trapeze artist”, I have worked in enough places and positions to extract out the commonalities.
In most cases, you have a business, which provides one or many products or services to other people, or other businesses. Once a pattern of what you do or provide doesn’t need to change, you can keep doing everything exactly as you have done it before.
Except things are always changing. Maybe there is, out there, somewhere, a business where this doesn’t happen. I just can’t imagine what it could be.
The International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) defines business analysis as “The practice of enabling change in an organizational context, by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.“
This course is unbelievably extensive and I really wish I had this knowledge years ago. The information provided is directly applicable to the real world. It presents 68 videos comprising a total of 6 hours of content, not to mention downloadable documentation.
The course is also realistic in that they say often the person doing the business analysis may have a completely different job and business analysis is often just part of other jobs, which is, and has been my case; in many positions I’ve had, I’ve done at least some form of business analysis.
Syllabus:
- Business Analysis
- Stakeholders
- Life Cycles
- Forming Requirements
- Transforming Requirements
- Finalizing Requirements
- Managing Requirements Assets
The above syllabus is just a very high level picture to get the details, here is the course overview.
Even though I have the certificate, I’m definitely going to review it again and cross reference with the other courses I’ve taken such on Agile, Product Managment, Project management, and SEO.