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ESIs refined Business Analysis Professional Development Programme

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Introducing ESIs Refined Business Analysis Professional Development Programme

ESIA Thought Leader in Business AnalysisSince the emergence of business analysis, ESI has been there as a thought leader in the discipline. Our expert programme offers your employees the best practices defined by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) and applies our more than 25 years of experience working with organisations around the world.

ESIs Business Analysis Professional Development Programme is designed to meet the needs of the many professionals who perform business analysis functionswhether they call themselves business analysts, process analysts, project managers, systems engineers, systems designers or solutions architects.

Introducing ESIs Refined Business Analysis CoursesAs part of our commitment to standardising best practices and to the continued development in the field, ESI has refined our Business Analysis Professional Development Programme.

The evolved programme features three all-new courses and four courses that have been thoroughly updated. This is all part of our continuing effort to help ensure that your business analysts have the knowledge, skills and practices to ensure the success of your organisations projects.

IIBA, the IIBA logo, BABoK and Business Analysis Body of Knowledge are registered trademarks owned by Interna-tional Institute of Business Analysis.

Defining Business AnalysisBusiness analysis is essential to successful project delivery. This increasingly vital function calls upon business analysts to elicit justifiable, verifiable and traceable requirements from stakeholders and then communicate those requirements to project managers and IT personnel.

Accurate requirements are an essential tool for navigating the all-important triple constraint and delivering successful projects. While correctly defined requirements lead to project completion and success, they also have the power to help organisations effectively prioritise their projects and allocate resources accordingly.

If applied properly, best practices in business analysis will help your organisation

Accomplish strategic objectives

Improve productivity and efficiency in requirements analysis

Make better decisions at all levels of your organisation

Increase stakeholder involvement and satisfaction

Improve communication organisation wide

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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN BUSINESS ANALYSIS

= available online via ESIs e-training

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Introducing ESIs Refined Business Analysis Professional Development Programme

You may choose to start by taking . . .

How to Gather and Document User Requirements

Logical Data Modelling

Process Modelling Management

Use Case Modelling

Testing Techniques for Tracing and Validating Requirements

Facilitation Techniques for Requirements Development

Elective CourseYou may take one elective at any time. Choose from:Managing Projects Managing IT Projects Project Leadership, Management

and Communications Negotiation Skills for

Project Managers Core Business Skills courses

Foundations of Business Analysis

Then take additional courses for a total of five to earn your certificate . . .

Upon successfully completing the required five courses, you will receive a Professional Certificate in Business Analysis awarded by ESI and The George Washington University. You will also receive the Certified Business

Analyst credential awarded by ESI.

Foundations of Business Analysis

Our Introduction to Business Analysis course has been overhauled to become Foundations of Business Analysis. Our updated course now represents the role of the modern business analyst and aligns to the IIBA BABOK.

How to Gather and Document User Requirements

This course has been updated to reflect ESIs new standard for our business analysis courses, along with continued alignment to industry practices. This how-to course introduces the roles of the business analyst as they relate to the elicitation, analysis and documentation of requirements.

Logical Data Modelling and Process Modelling Management

Our popular course Logical Data and Process Modelling has been expanded into two separate courses:

Logical Data Modelling This updated course focuses on the most current competencies for logical data modelling.

Process Modelling Management This all-new course offers participants the formal training to plan, model and execute requirements analysis in a process improvement project.

Use Case Modelling

Our Use Case Modelling for Business Analysis course has been overhauled to become Use Case Modelling. The updated course focuses on the most current competencies for creating use cases and use case diagrams and incorporates key content from our former course Business Object Oriented Modelling.

Testing Techniques for Tracing and Validating Requirements

Our Introduction to Testing for Business Analysts course has been overhauled to become Testing Techniques for Tracing and Validating Requirements. The course now has more emphasis on traceability and user and acceptance testing from the business analysts perspective.

Facilitation Techniques for Requirements Development

This all-new course offers participants the formal training needed to successfully conduct facilitation sessions to elicit and analyse requirements.

Strategic Enterprise Analysis

This new advanced course provides participants with the knowledge needed to begin working as part of a strategic enterprise analysis team. It covers the major activities of strategic enterprise analysis that must be conducted to study the enterprise architecture.

Strategic Enterprise Analysis New!

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ESIs Business Analysis Success Model

Facilitation, Communication, Relationship Building, Inuencing,

Team-working, Stakeholder Management, Detail-Oriented, Problem

Solving, Leadership, Conict Management, Stakeholder Analysis and Management

Elicitation/Investigation/Verication Technique,

Requirements Validation/Solution Assessment, Business Process

Modelling and Management, Use Case Analysis, Object Oriented Analysis, Enterprise

Analysis, Change Management, Project Management, Business Case Development

Organisational Structure and Design, Organisational Strategy, Principles of IT, Domain Knowledge,

Audit Ability (SOX, CMMi, Six Sigma), Software Acquisition, Outsourcing

Management (RFP, RFI, RFQ)

BASuccess

Interpersonal Skill

Organisational Knowledge

Technical Skill

To succeed as business analysts, your employees must be able to produce high-quality requirements. To do so, they must exhibit technical and interpersonal skills while drawing on their organisational knowledge to successfully integrate stakeholder needs and meet organisational goals.

Weve designed our Business Analysis Success Model to demonstrate the best practices and standards that business analysts must possess to work effectively. Many of these best practices fall outside of the specific knowledge area of business analysis. The model points to Interpersonal Skills, Technical Skills and Organisational Knowledge as proficiency components that are keys to successful requirements gathering.

Each of these proficiencies is represented in our suite of expert training programmes. For example, through our Business Analysis Professional Development Programme and Business Skills Training Programme, your employees will gain both technical and interpersonal skills. And, through our Project Management Professional Development Programme, business analysts will gain additional competencies in requirements planning, scheduling, risk management and communication planning.

ESIs Business Analysis Process ModelEach course in ESIs Business Analysis Professional Development Programme maps to our newly developed Business Analysis Process Model. The principles behind this essential model are applicable to every phase of the project life cycle.

The model is designed to ensure consistency in the execution of requirements development. It essentially provides business analysts with a road map for thorough requirements gathering. If they properly use the model, business analysts will be able to respond to and anticipate risk, identify appropriate communication needs, and ensure that the gathered requirements will ultimately meet the stakeholders needs and lead to project success.

The phases of the model correspond directly with the knowledge areas of the BABOK.

For more information on ESIs newly refined Business Analysis Professional Development Programme, visit www.esi-intl.com/Asia today.

February 2009