BCS Business Analysis Practice - Weekend

BCS Business Analysis Practice is the new name for ISEB Business Analysis Essentials.

Business analysts and others who need to understand businesses and define how they should change. The analysts may be participating in any change management programme. The course is not limited to the analysis of IT system requirements.

This course provides a well-defined approach for the business analyst to follow, supplemented by proven techniques. This approach helps the analyst to understand the context in which the business operates in order to model and analyse its activities. Exploring the creative possibilities, including the stakeholders' perspectives, helps to identify a range of solutions to the business's problems. The business case identifies the most appropriate of those solutions.

This is an intensive 2 day weekend course requiring pre-reading and long days (approx 9 hours).

Successful delegates will be able to:

• Describe how a business strategy is developed and use strategic analysis techniques
• Identify the external and internal influences which affect a business
• Analyse and model business systems
• Take account of the perspectives of different stakeholders
• Identify potential business improvements
• Evaluate improvements by means of a business case
• Identify costs, benefits, impacts and risks for an option in a business case
• Derive IT system requirements from the business model

• Rationale for Business Analysis
• Strategic analysis in context
• Project discipline for business analysis studies
• Understanding the situation/issues
• Business perspectives
• Analysing and modelling business activities
• Identifying potential solutions
• Making the business case
• Accepting the business case