The Center for Professional Education at UT Austin offers courses, certificate programs and workforce training designed to build individual careers and support productive and efficient work teams.
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This course provides essential information for business analysts to be successful on Agile projects. Attendees will participate in hands-on activities to learn how to define the project’s vision, model user roles, write user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritize the user stories, refine the stories in preparation for developing them and utilize user stories to plan releases and iterations.
This course covers requirements analysis and modeling techniques, as well as ways to document requirements to communicate them effectively to your stakeholders. Using hands-on exercises and a case study with example solutions, this course introduces methods and techniques so you can effectively model and document requirements for different audiences or stakeholders.
The seven-course Business Analysis Certificate Program gives you the tools to investigate needs and propose solutions to problems within your organization, both crucial skills for successful project delivery and organizational change.
You will be introduced to the techniques, methodologies, and concepts of business analysis using the International Institute of Business AnalysisTM (IIBA®) A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) Version 3.0. Topics Include: why requirements are important, types of requirements, underlying competencies for business analysts, the Strategy Analysis Knowledge Area, the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Knowledge Area, the Elicitation and Collaboration Knowledge Area, the Requirements Life Cycle Management Knowledge Area, the Requirements Analysis and Design Definition Knowledge Area, and the Solution Evaluation Knowledge Area.
Cover how to plan and manage your business analysis tasks, including planning for elicitation, analysis, documentation, traceability, and requirements. You will learn the essential project management concepts and skills to effectively create business analysis planning deliverables and manage the requirements process. Hands-on exercises based on a case study will bring concepts to life with practical activities.
This course will teach you how to understand, analyze and improve the processes that exist in organizations. You will learn and use process modeling techniques to document existing processes, analyze the efficiency of a process using various techniques, and identify and recommend process improvement opportunities.
This course covers techniques used to effectively involve and engage stakeholders for the purpose of eliciting requirements, including when and how to use each technique. Through hands-on learning activities, you will learn how to prepare questions, conduct interviews, facilitate group-brainstorming sessions, organize the results, create storyboards and prototypes and present results.
Learn how to determine if a new business initiative is worth pursuing in this one-day course. Discover how to analyze the business need using techniques like systems thinking and root cause analysis. Study how to analyze capability gaps and define the scope. You will leave class ready to prepare a strong business case that aligns with your business strategy.
