The Quick Start Guide To Business Analysis
 

What you'll learn
The right questions to ask
Represent the information - using text, diagrams and mock-ups
Manage your requirements
Collaborate successfully with the stakeholders
Requirements
No prior experience with Business Analysis is needed
Description
A quick and easy guide to Business analysis for beginners - understand the tasks a BA does every day. The course contains many examples and tricks. The following topics are covered:The right questions to ask - high level questions to understand the big picture and detailed questions to figure out the processing logicHow to represent the information - using text, diagrams and wireframes. Use workflow diagrams to represent the process. Create wireframes to discuss the UI for the new features. Understand different formats to describe the processing logicHow to manage your requirements - create tasks on Jira and manage them. Understand the requirements quality criteria and break down the tasks properly.Collaborate successfully with the stakeholders - understand who the stakeholders are and various ways to approach them. Organize various types of meetings and use different communication channels depending on the context. The most common situations are represented with examples. Learn how to validate your requirements with the business stakeholdersMore than 1 hour of video content, 5 tutorials, 5 additional examples with downloadable resourcesAre you curious what GIVEN WHEN THEN means, or what the difference between a wireframe and a mock-up is? Can you guess what brainstorming actually means? Then let's get started!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Learning Objectives
Lecture 3 The Importance of Business Analysis
Section 2: Prepare your questions
Lecture 4 Learning objectives
Lecture 5 High level questions
Lecture 6 Tutorial: High level questions - add voucher functionality to the online shop
Lecture 7 Detailed questions
Lecture 8 Tips and tricks
Lecture 9 Tutorial: Detailed questions - add voucher functionality to the online shop
Section 3: Workflow diagrams
Lecture 10 Learning objectives
Lecture 11 A simple workflow diagram
Lecture 12 Tips and tricks
Lecture 13 Tutorial: Simple workflow diagram - purchase and redeem a voucher
Lecture 14 Example: Redeem a voucher
Lecture 15 Workflow diagram with several parties
Lecture 16 Example: Purchase and redeem a voucher
Section 4: Wireframes and usability
Lecture 17 Learning objectives
Lecture 18 Wireframes, mockups, prototypes
Lecture 19 Importance of wireframes
Lecture 20 Usability rules
Lecture 21 Tips and tricks
Lecture 22 Tutorial: Build a wireframe - redeem a voucher
Lecture 23 More examples
Section 5: How to describe requirements
Lecture 24 Learning objectives
Lecture 25 High level requirements
Lecture 26 Confluence tutorial: High level requirements using Product requirements template
Lecture 27 Break down the requirements
Lecture 28 Requirements quality
Lecture 29 Requirement name
Lecture 30 Requirement description (acceptance criteria)
Lecture 31 Example: Free form text - select a voucher
Lecture 32 Example: GIVEN WHEN THEN - select a voucher
Lecture 33 Tips and tricks
Section 6: Jira tutorial
Lecture 34 Learning objectives
Lecture 35 Organize into epics and user stories
Lecture 36 Main properties of epics and user stories
Lecture 37 Tips and tricks
Lecture 38 Requirements lifecycle
Section 7: Work with the stakeholders
Lecture 39 Learning objectives
Lecture 40 Who are the stakeholders
Lecture 41 Organizational chart
Lecture 42 Tips and tricks
Lecture 43 Situation 1: Organize a call
Lecture 44 Situation 2: Notify about a delay
Lecture 45 Situation 3: The client has complained
Lecture 46 Situation 4: The dev team tells you that something cannot be implemented
Lecture 47 Types of communication
Lecture 48 Types of meetings to elicit the requirements
Lecture 49 Separate the elicitation meetings from meetings with the dev team
Lecture 50 Situation 5: The client would like a new section "Recently viewed products"
Lecture 51 Situation 6: The client wants a new order management system to be implemented
Lecture 52 Discuss and validate the requirements
Beginner Business Analysts who would like to understand the basics, to streamline their work
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