ADVANCED PROJECT ANALYST COURSE

OBJECTIVES

• Provide a detailed knowledge and understanding of the fundamental concepts of

• Project Management
• Agile principles & values
• Underpinning philosophies principles, processes, and techniques, within the business/project analysis approach

• Understand how to execute a Project analysis plan aligned with agile development principles and manifest
• Develop the required skillset and capabilities to support successful business change programmes within your organisation
• Build the confidence and ability to measure, track, enhance efficiency and reliably delivery through Agility in Project Management, in turn demonstrating talent and potential
• Produce and evaluate the content of Project Analyst-produced products during an Agile project
• Understand the roles and responsibilities within a project and the different levels of empowerment concerning requirements and the business case
• Understand the various mechanisms for facilitation, mentoring, and coaching within a Project
• Understand how to estimate and evaluate the benefits realisation of a Project

Content

Project Analysis Fundamentals

• BA’s historical and contemporary contexts
• Project / Business Analysis overview
• Project Analyst roles and responsibilities
• Introduction to Business analysis concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools.
• Fundamental skills and competencies required to effectively perform BA tasks

Planning and Monitoring

• Business Analysis (BA) practices related to planning and monitoring
• Developing budgets and financial analyses
• Effective stakeholder communication
• Useful strategies for resource allocation
• Defining deliverables – how to approach, trace, and prioritize requirements; and adopting metrics for monitoring and assessment.

Project Management

Overview of project management life cycle and organisation including

• Project definition
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Planning
• Scheduling
• Group dynamics
• Controls
• Project completion

 Agile Business Analysis

• Agile – The emergence and Methodolgy
• Agile Fundamentals
• The Key Roles in Agile
  • Product Owner/Manager
  • Scrum Master
  • Agile/Scrum Team Member
• Role of Business Analyst in Agile Project Management
• How to adapt from Waterfall Project Management to Agile Project Management
• Emerging trends and technologies

Requirements Management within the Project Life Cycle Management

• Business, Stakeholder, and Solution requirements – collection and management
• How requirements emerge and ways to effectively manage throughout the lifecycle
• Explore how to respond to unanticipated factors like new information, changing priorities, market fluctuations, and governmental regulations, impact Solution design

Elicitation and Collaboration

• Obtaining information from stakeholders, and managing Stakeholder collaborations
• Elicitation Techniques, and collaboration activities
• Overcoming challenges in real-world business situations
• Elicitation testing and verification methods and techniques

Excellence in Communication

• Communicate convincingly, efficiently, and effectively
• Key organisational communication strategies and styles

Strategy and Enterprise Analysis

• Mobilizing the resources effectively
• Capabilities required of an enterprise to succeed in a desired goals and objectives
• How to spot problems and locate solutions
• Advancing from the current ‘As Is’ state to a future ‘To be’ state

Solution Assessment and Validation

• Assessing and validating the performance and the value of the recommended solution
• Removal of barriers or roadblocks, that prevent the complete realization of a solution’s value
• Measure the performance of a solution, and recommends concrete actions to upscale its value
• Processes of business analysis validation, both generally and about solution evaluation

 Leading Organisational Change

• Personal qualities and skills critical to modelling an effective and efficient leadership
• Authentic Leadership through influence & credibility
• How values and purposes are consistently enacted and embodied within the workplace
• Practices to Develop self-mastery