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Well-defined requirements and sound agreement on what is specified, built and delivered are keys to a successful project. At the outset of a project, Business Analysts work closely with Stakeholders, the Project Manager and the Development Team to help define the vision and the scope of the project. As the project progresses, the Analyst continues to play a significant role by keeping the communication flowing between stakeholders, project management and the development team.

Analysts typically come from development and/or from business functional areas. Their project management knowledge and experience is usually limited. This workshop is designed to provide the Analyst with practical knowledge of the project management life cycle, so they can fulfill their role and especially work more effectively with project managers.

In the initiation stage of the project, the Analyst plays one of the key roles in scope definition. Scope creep is one of the most common project risks, and the Analyst is in a good position to identify, negotiate and help manage scope changes. In addition, many other project management risks are directly related to inadequate requirements processes. In this workshop the Analysts will learn what are the analysis related risks and what are their solutions.

• Understand the fundamentals of Project Management
• Describe the phases of the Software Development Lifecycle with major roles, activities and deliverables
• Be able to explain the Triple Constraints of project management
• Be able to identify and resolve project management risks related to requirements
• Understand the project planning and control processes

Who Should Attend
Business & System Analysts, Project Managers, Architects, Developers, Testers, Business Subject-matter Experts

Instructional Methods
The workshop combines lecture, exercises, cases studies, and group discussion. The lecture will present the fundamental concepts and examples, while the exercises and moderated discussion will help attendees to understand how the concepts apply to their projects.

Prerequisites
There are no particular prerequisites for this workshop.

Projects and Project Management

• What is project management
• Why projects fail
• The PM activities
• Nine project management areas
• The role of the Business Analyst
• Collaboration between Project Manager and the Business Analyst

Project Lifecycle

• Lifecycle phases
• Lifecycle models – waterfall vs. incremental and iterative development
• Agile development
• Roles, artifacts and activities
• Interaction between the Analysts. Stakeholders, Architects, Testers and the Project Manager

Project Initiation

• Project selection process
• Defining the Project Charter
• Putting together the Scope Statement
• Business Analyst input to Project Initiation

Project Planning

• What is a Project Plan?
• From requirements to project plans
• The planning process
• Requirements and estimation
• Requirements prioritization based on value, cost and risk
• Requirements and scheduling

Risk Management

• Planning for Risk Management
• Risks related to Requirements Elicitation
• Risks Related to Requirements Analysis & Specification
• Risks related to Requirements Validation
• Risks related to Requirements Management
• Risk discovery process
• Responding the risk

Project Control

• What is project control
• Project control and the different software development lifecycle models
• Project Management techniques for controlling the project plan execution

Project Closeout

• Requirements for Project Closeout
• The Post Project Review

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