This foundation course explores the roles, responsibilities and techniques of high-performing business analysts today.

Build your confidence in facilitating group sessions to elicit requirements and while managing group dynamics and difficult stakeholders.

Learn as a team to collaborate, define and validate requirements.

Explore the key elements of a business process including governance, metrics, alignment, activities and sequences.

Explore the evolution of use cases throughout the project life cycle and learn how to plan and lead a use case workshop.

Examine business analysis techniques for traceability and scope control for requirements verification and validation.

Learn to effectively plan, manage and close requirements for a software development project using Agile practices.

Gain the core knowledge and skills required to understand the framework, life cycle and knowledge areas of project management.

Learn to develop and implement communication plans to lead a high-performing team and to engage stakeholders.

Learn to develop a time-phased project schedule and use earned value to monitor project performance.

Learn to adopt risk management strategies and activities to achieve consistent outcomes on projects.

Learn to develop a quality management plan and design requirements to meet stakeholder and organizational expectations.

Discover how to align project procurement processes and identify elements in a contract document to allow for contract risk management.

Learn to complete a project management plan, obtain approvals, manage project change and close out project phases.

This course will prepare you for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam and help you avoid making costly mistakes.

Learn the fundamentals of Agile project management, including the key processes involved.