Business Analysis Foundation

The BCS Business Analysis Foundation is an instructor-led, hands-on certification training course. This course will provide participants with information on the basics of business analysis to get an insight into the roles and responsibilities of a business analyst. The course will cover the basics of business analysis tools and techniques, and how these business analysis skills are used to gather requirements and identify solutions that deliver better business outcomes. Learn the key concepts, vocabulary, and stakeholders that business analysts need to be comfortable working with.

Foundations of Business Analysis is the cornerstone of the BCS Business Analysis curriculum. It is an internationally recognised qualification useful for anyone who needs to understand business analysis, including business analysts, business managers, and their staff, business change managers, project managers, and systems developers. This course covers the BCS syllabus and prepares participants for the Foundations of Business Analysis exam.

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There are no formal prerequisites for taking this course

Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).

BCS Business Analysis Foundation

The certification exam can be registered and attempted within 3 months of course/module completion at our training centre on weekdays during normal business hours (excludes public holidays)

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Instructor-led Classroom Training at our premises
Live Virtual Online Training attend in real-time from anywhere
In-House Training at your premises (4+ participants)

Learn the basics of business analysis tools and techniques.
Understand the role and responsibilities of a business analyst
Knowledge of how to start a project
Best practices for starting requirements gathering
Become familiar with the key concepts, vocabulary, and stakeholders that underpin the work of a business analyst.
Strategies for monitoring results and testing

Why go for BCS Business Analysis Foundation Course

This certificate is a helpful for such jobs:

Business Analysts
Business managers
Business Change Managers
Project managers and other IT service management related professions

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Describe the business change lifecycle
List the following principles of business analysis
Describe the variants of the business analyst role
Explain the concept of the T-shaped Professional
Identify the three areas of business analysis competency
Describe business analysis and the strategic context
Define the factors assessed using PESTLE to analyse an external environment
Identify the elements of the VMOST technique used to analyse an internal environment
Describe the following elements of performance measurement
Describe the structure of a SWOT analysis
Describe the POPIT and Business Model Canvas techniques used in strategy execution
Situation investigation and problem analysis
Feasibility assessment and business case development
Business process improvement
Requirement’s definition
Business acceptance testing
Business change deployment
Stakeholder engagement
Understand the purpose of workshops
Understand the purpose of observation
Understand the purpose of interviews
Understand the purpose of scenarios
Understand the purpose of prototyping
Define user role analysis
Define quantitative approaches including: Surveys or questionnaires, Activity sampling, Document analysis
Describe the Rich pictures Mind maps, two diagrammatic techniques used to record a business situation
Identify stakeholder categories using the stakeholder wheel
Describe the Power/Interest grid technique to analyse stakeholders
Describe stakeholder responsibilities using RASCI (RACI) technique
Explain the business process hierarchy
Describe aspects of the event response level (UML activity diagrams, or process swimlane diagrams)
Describe aspect of the actor-task level (Tasks writing the UML activity diagram)
Analysis considerations at actor-task level (Steps or ‘work instructions’ supporting each Task level)
Understand the concepts of the as-is and to-be process models
Identify generic approaches to improving business processes
Define the purpose of customer journey maps
Describe the gap analysis process
Explain the use of POPIT in gap analysis
Describe the process for developing options
Describe the purpose of design thinking
Describe the lifecycle for a business case in business case development
Identify the areas of feasibility assessment
Define the structure and contents of a business case
Understand categories of costs and benefits
Understand the importance of an early impact assessment
Understand a business risk assessment in relation to the options presented
Explain the purpose of the following investment appraisal techniques; payback, discounted cash flow (net present value) and internal rate of return
List the key features relevant to the production of a business case within an Agile contex
Explain the requirements engineering framework
Understand the role of different actors in requirements engineering
Understand the categories of requirements, business, technical, functional and non-functional
Describe the hierarchy of requirements
Describe requirements elicitation techniques
Understand requirements analysis, including; requirements filters, INVEST, MoSCoW and Business rules
Understand requirements documentation styles including; text-based documentation styles and Diagrammatic documentation styles
Define the structure of the business requirements document
Understand the importance of the requirements catalogue
Describe the format of user stories
Describe the elements of the use case diagram used to model functional requirements
Describe the elements of a class model used to model data
Describe the product backlog in modelling and documentation in an Agile environment
Formal requirements validation
The activities in the Agile requirements validation process
Describe traceability and change control in relation to requirements management
Describe the following types of delivery lifecycle; waterfall lifecycle, the “V” model, the incremental lifecycle and the iterative lifecycle (Agile)
Explain the role of the business analyst in the business change lifecycle
Describe the role of the business analyst during the design, development and test stages
Describe the SARAH (a person focused organisational change management tool) and a business readiness assessment technique
Describe how the benefits plan is used in the realisation stage