Enterprise Analysis and Business Requirements Success
February 26 & 27, 2013
September 11 & 12, 2013
9 am - 4 pm; 12 PDU; $799; Baldwin Wallace, Berea
Instructor: Amanda Dietz
Innovations in information technology have had a dramatically positive impact on American business over the last 15 years. Still, research consistently shows that a large percentage of software projects fail to deliver the intended business results. The "IT-Business" divide is a key factor in these failures. Indeed, more than 50 percent of organizations polled in a recent IT Governance Institute survey lacked any formal structure to align IT investments with business strategy. This two-day program creates the framework for a successful BA-IT partnership in the development of effective business requirements.
Learning Objectives:
- Integrate business requirements management practices into your system development and project management life cycles
- Create a strategy map
- Use the strategy map and process management tools to identify potential project opportunities
- Evaluate alternatives using enterprise architecture frameworks
- Conduct feasibility studies
- Document high level business requirements based on enterprise analysis
Target Audience:
Business analyst, systems analyst, requirements manager, analyst or engineer, project or program manager, team leader, development manager, requirements manager or engineer, management consultant and IT specialist.
Course Outline:
- Importance of Requirements
- Why requirements are missed
- The costs of missed requirements
- The role of the Business Analyst
- Integrating Requirements into Key Life Cycles
- Requirements management Knowledge Areas
- Requirements and the system development life cycles
- Requirements and the project management life cycle
- Understanding Stakeholders and Organizational Politics
- Identifying and classifying stakeholders
- Evaluating and leveraging politics
- Developing and Updating the Business Architecture
- Creating/interpreting the strategic plan
- Frameworks for business architecture evaluation
- Establishing traceability
- Defining the Business Opportunity
- Conducting feasibility studies
- Developing a visioning document
- Analysis of options
- Preparing the business case
- Verification
- Keys to Success