BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis

Foundation Cert

Module 1: What is Business Analysis?

  • Describe the Business Change Lifecycle
  • List the Key Principles of Business Analysis
  • Variants of the Business Analyst Role

Module 2: The Competencies of a Business Analyst

  • Concept of the T-shaped Professional
  • Identify the Three Areas of Business Analysis Competency

Module 3: The Strategic Context for Business Analysis

  • Business Analysis and the Strategic Context
  • PESTLE Analysis (External Environment)
  • VMOST Technique (Internal Environment)
  • Performance Measurement
  • Structure of a SWOT Analysis
  • Techniques Used in Strategy Execution

Module 4: The Business Analysis Service Framework

  • Identify the Activities in the Business Analysis Service Framework (BASF)

Module 5: Investigating the Business Situation

  • Define Workshops & Scenarios
  • Interviews and Interview Lifecycle
  • Define Observation & Prototyping
  • Define User Role Analysis
  • Define Quantitative Approaches
  • Diagrammatic Techniques to Record Business Situations

Module 6: Analysing and Managing Stakeholders

  • Identify Stakeholder Categories (Stakeholder Wheel)
  • Power/Interest Grid Technique
  • Stakeholder Responsibilities (RACI Chart)

Module 7: Improving Business Services and Processes

  • Business Process Hierarchy
  • Modeling Enterprise-Level Processes
  • Event-Response & Actor-Task Levels
  • As-Is Process Model Aspects
  • Generic Approaches to Improving Processes
  • Purpose of Customer Journey Maps

Module 8: Defining the Solution

  • Describe the Gap Analysis Process
  • Use of POPIT™ in Gap Analysis
  • Process for Developing Options
  • Purpose of Design Thinking

Module 9: Making the Business Case

  • Business Case Lifecycle & Structure
  • Feasibility Assessment Areas
  • Business Case in an Agile Environment
  • Elements of a CARDI Log
  • Purpose of Investment Appraisal Techniques

Module 10: Establishing the Requirements

  • Requirements Engineering (RE) Framework
  • Actors in Requirements Engineering
  • Types & Hierarchy of Requirements
  • Requirements Elicitation Techniques
  • Elements of Requirements Analysis

Module 11: Documenting and Modelling Requirements

  • Documentation Styles & Requirements Catalogue
  • Format of User Stories
  • Use Case Diagrams (Functional Requirements)
  • Class Models (Data Modelling)
  • Product Backlog in Agile
  • Structure of the Business Requirements Document (BRD)

Module 12: Validating and Managing Requirements

  • Types of Requirements Validation
  • Aspects of Requirements Management

Module 13: Delivering the Requirements

  • Types of Delivery Lifecycle
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Lifecycles

Module 14: Delivering the Business Solution

  • BA Role in Business Change Lifecycle
  • BA Role During Design, Development, and Test
  • Approaches Used in Implementation
  • Benefits Plan in the Realisation Stage

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