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Business Analysis for Project Managers

Recognise the depth and breadth of a Business Analysis role and how it complements Project Management
Appreciate the similarities and differences between Business Analyst and Project Manager roles
Recognise how the holistic view helps the Business Analyst to facilitate high quality, workable solutions that support the business need
Plan your projects to include requirements analysis and understand requirements engineering
Conduct and support requirements elicitation activities
Categorise and analyse written requirements
Conduct requirements validation that will support the business need
Look beyond the delivery of the project to pre- and post-project activities, including UAT and implementation considerations.

Overview

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This course bridges the gap between project management and business analysis. It will extend the project manager's viewpoint to understand and facilitate excellent analysis and high quality requirements to deliver a fully formed solution, as well as delivering the project.

Many different roles are required within a project team: two of the most important roles are the project manager and the business analyst. A business analyst understands business change needs, assesses the impact of those changes, captures, analyses and documents requirements and then supports the communication and delivery of those requirements with relevant parties. Like project managers, business analysts must be great communicators, tactful diplomats, problem solvers, thinkers and analysers - with the ability to understand and respond to user needs in rapidly changing business environments. Whilst a lot of project managers have been on formal training courses such as PRINCE2®, APM and PMI®, not many have had formal business analysis training which would help them and their organisations deliver more successful projects.