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This fundamentals course guides professionals and teams who need to participate in, manage, or lead requirements and testing efforts on projects or operations using flexible, tailorable methods. The program empowers and educates through multiple learning channels including direct team\based project exercises, best practices discussion, tailoring processes to fit every situation, lecture, graphics, and will equip you to start tailoring templates with best practices. The course addresses one of the biggest challenges leaders face: motivating others to perform processes they are unfamiliar with. This focus fosters higher levels of accountability.
Every attendee brings back real\world, proven best practices and processes to apply immediately on the job. Program instructors are DA&R practicing business analysis, project, program, and operational consultants and senior managers with years of project experience spanning many industries. The program uses The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), The Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®), the CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model® Integration),and other industry standards and fundamentals to bring participant experience to a new level of tailored best practices.
Outline
- Business Analysis lifecycle tailoring
- 4 "Hard Questions" to ask early
- Estimates that stick and make sense
- Building a realistic scope statement
- Negotiating with sponsors and teams
- Reducing project documentation
- Scope and Requirements Management
- Managing change including processes
- Priority setting and consensus
- Create and maintain your "One List"
Agile & Integrated Business Analysis (A&IBA)
- Concepts and how to apply them for maximum results
- Foster a culture of prioritization and choices
- Eliciting Requirements
- Analyzing Requirements
- Writing Requirements & accompanying tests
- Why, how, and when to tailor processes
- What to expect from a Business Analyst
- Technical Writing for Business Analysis
- Proactive issue management
Our Passions and Experience are in Three Areas:
1.) Project (or Program) Management Consulting of any size project or operations area, favorites include critical project start-up, process improvement, and troubled project recovery.
Clients call when they want both project management and a lot of process improvement in their processes in a short time. They also call when they are overloaded and need an experienced professional or a small team to concentrate on a particular project.
2.) Training in PM, Business Analysis, and Leadership around the skills needed to achieve best practices in their processes and operations.
Clients call when they don’t know exactly what they want or how to achieve their goals, but they feel process improvement will help. We help them crystallize their goals and the types of change they are ready for, customize training (or they attend open enrollment), and do their follow-through so they get lasting results. ...
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