PMI – Project Business Analyst® – Classroom

This program is for those who work on projects and must work on business analyst roles full time or part of the project managers role. Managers with a minimum of 3 years of Business analysis experience are eligible to apply for the PMI-PBA® examination. This is a globally recognized certification from the Project Management Institute. The course equips you to confidently pass the PMI -PBA® examination. The program is also designed to build Business analysis core competency among participants.

Pass the PMI-PBA® examinations with confidence.
Practice real life case studies using templates and learn from practitioners.
Get recognized as part of an International elite professional body and increase your stature among peers and work groups.
Apply the learning to your work situations and improve efficiency, productivity and quality.

The course covers the entire areas of PMI-PBA® Examination outline.

• Introduction to project business analysis.
• Needs assessment.
• Planning
• Analysis
• Traceability and Monitoring
• Evaluation
• Solution evaluation.
• Knowledge and Skills
• Tools and techniques

35 PDU’s from PMI® REP
More than 10 hours interactive video session
Course designed based on competency framework for PMI-PBA®
Application support to submit your application to PMI®
120+ Examination like Case study based questions
Access to high quality learner management system
Unlimited course access
Practice using real life templates
Interact with our expert trainers
Content designed by a team of CBAP®, PBA® and PMP® with decades of experience.

Introduction

Introducing the PMI PBA® examination

Eligibility and requirements

Filling your project hours

Examination strategy

Introduction to business analysis

What is business analysis?

Who is a business analyst and the changing role of a business analyst?

Why is business analysis critical?

The state of projects worldwide

The requirements management process

Kinds of business analysis roles and how to build your BA competency

Requirements types

Key terms

Questions and recap

Needs analysis (18%)

Defining a business problem, develop solution scope and inputs for a business case, components of a business case document

Collect and analyse the value proposition of the initiative

Collaborate with stakeholders for project goals and objectives and align the product with organizations goals and objectives

Identifying stakeholders for collaboration

Identifying stakeholder values

Case study

Knowledge, skills and techniques

Questions and recap

Planning ( 22%)

Determining the BA activities for the project

Defining strategy for tracing requirements

Preparing a plan on how requirements will be managed

Defining the change management process and how change will be communicated

Defining the requirements document management process and tools

Defining metrics, KPI and evaluation criteria and when solution will be accepted.

Case study

Knowledge, skills and techniques

Best practices in planning

Questions and recap

Analysis ( 35%)

Eliciting and identifying requirements with choice of appropriate techniques

Elaborating, decomposing and analysing the requirements

Capabilities and product options

Requirements baseline, allocation and manging the triple constrains

Obtaining consensus on requirements and signoff

Creating requirements specification using text and models

Validating requirements and checking for requirements quality

Detailed KPI, Matrices and acceptance criteria for solution acceptance

Case study

Knowledge, skills and techniques

Best practices in elicitation and documentation

Introduction to requirements modelling.

Questions and recap

Traceability and monitoring ( 15%)

Tracing requirements

Monitoring requirements life cycle through various stages

Working on requirements, updating and communicating requirements status to stakeholders

Communicating requirements status to stakeholders on issues, conflicts and changes

Communicating risk and managing conflicts

Managing changes, impact, risk within the change control process and on the baseline.

Case study

Knowledge, skills and techniques

Questions and recap

Evaluation ( 10%)

Compare test results with the pre-defined requirements acceptance criteria

Identifying solution gaps and resolving discrepancies.

Obtaining stakeholder sign for moving to deployment

Measure the deployed solution to see how well it meets the KPI, metrics, acceptance criteria, business case and the value proposition

Case study

Knowledge, skills and techniques

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Classroom training methodology

The teaching methodology is based on case studies, role plays, group assignments where participants learn from the instructor and from each other.
Our endeavor is not only help participants pass certification but enable them to build competencies and skills that can be applied at their work place.
The lectures are delivered based on the background, needs and aspirations of the participants to make sure that they meet their needs.
Our classes are highly interactive and based on experiential learning (learning from experience) . Participants can ask questions, request clarification or explanation when it’s needed and interact with a knowledgeable instructor who can help them understand concepts and terminology in terms of their own frames of reference.
The class room sessions are used to explain difficult concepts, for practical learning, role plays, group assignments and team learning, personal interactions, replying to queries, having debates and points of views and all other activities that cannot be adopted in an online session.
Trainers provide feedback on assignments and better ways of doing things and this can be achieved only in an interactive face to face discussion.

2 days weekend ( Saturday and Sunday ) extended classroom session in major cities like New Delhi,Gurgoan,Noida,Kolkatta,Mumbai , Navi Mumbai ,Pune, Bangalore,Mysore,Hyderabad,Chennai,Kochin and Trivandrum.In case you have any questions or query please send an email to info@skillcert.in we will get back to you as soon as possible.

How does the new IIBA enhanced competency based examination affect you?

IIBA has introduced the new enhanced certification which is based on defined competencies. You are tested for a certain competency using a scenario, situation or by means using of a case study. Your earlier cramp courses (where you memorize the terms, the BABOK and the study guide) may no longer work with the new enhanced certification programs. This requires modification in the way Business analyst are trained and how your examination preparation strategy.
This means you need to understand the BABOK in action using real life business examples and context.

SkillCert Competency building programs

SkillCert consultants’ programs is specifically designed with case studies, assignments and templates to make your learning easier. The IIBA competency framework is built on a world class learner management platform that helps tracking your learning progress. Geography or time constrains need not limit your learning. You can work on the real-life case studies and templates and upload them on the LMS. You have a dedicated trainer assigned to your account who will go through the assignments and give his comments and mark your assignments. Our platform provides for group and individual collaboration. You have 90 days to complete the course.
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1. Business Analyst from the software development industry or with client organizations working in senior positions in IT, Operations and strategy areas. IT or Business consultants who interact with clients at strategic, tactical or operational levels.
2. Experienced business users or core team members working in IT departments as client-side business analyst in IT projects, process improvement, transformation and strategic initiatives.
4. Product managers and business process owners and those interacting with IT development teams for development of IT solutions.
5. Project managers
6. QA/Testing professionals
7. Team leads/System Analysts /Developers who have to interact with clients

Corporate sessions, Live virtual class, and retail sessions in major cities.