Where to start when selecting Business Analyst Courses?
Lots of people have asked me, which Business Analyst courses are good business analyst courses to get them started with business analysis?
This seems to be a common question among new business analysts or experienced business analysts who haven’t done a lot of formal training before. It is a very good question because it is not obvious. There are many Business Analyst courses out in the market but only few courses covers the overall foundation concepts of business analysis. If you are looking for a good solid foundations course in business analysis, I would suggest you look at the course content before signing up.
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Foundation Business Analyst Courses
The course content of a good Business Analysis foundation course should include the following types of topics:
- Problem Analysis – the Soft Systems Methodology is a foundation methodology for being able to recognize a business need or problem, it guides you to break it into ‘root cause’ statements and builds a structured problem to take to your next stage of your analysis.
- Stakeholder Analysis – The course content must also cover stakeholder analysis techniques. Ideally it will cover how to identify and manage your stakeholders.
- Business essentials such as learning how to formulate a mission statement, goals and key performance indicators. This is key to any business analyst to understand because this sets context for any future analysis work you will do. Other business tools you will learn about includes SWOT Analysis.
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) – This often forms the backbone of a foundation business analysis course and is the framework for explaining not only the SDLC itself but how business analysis fits into this life cycle.
So you may notice that a good foundation course in Business Analysis doesn’t necessarily include much about requirements or modeling techniques yet! It may well include some of that (such as data modeling or basic process diagrams) but it should not be the focus of a good foundation Business Analysis course. It is great start to develop your Business Analysis Skills.
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IT Business Analyst Courses Australia
If you are wanting to get started as a Business Analyst in IT or if you’re already working in this field and want to gain professional recognition, you will benefit greatly from possessing IIBA credentials aimed at your industry.
To meet the specialist needs of the IT industry, the IIBA developed a special category of certification known as the IIBA-CBDA (Certification in Business Data Analytics). It is especially tailored for data analysis relevant to IT tasks. There are many different roles where it can be applied, but the stand out is in online marketing scenarios, where analytics are the driving force behind almost everything.
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This is one of the easiest IIBA qualifications to obtain. Even though it is easier to earn than most of the other IIBA qualifications, it still is a valuable certification due to its rarity and the fact that it stamps you unquestionably as an expert in your field. As an internationally recognized qualification, it can open up a world of opportunity for you.
Our company is called Business Analysis Excellence Pty Ltd and we live up to the meaning behind our name. Our online courses are designed to give you the best possible preparation for your exam, and they are available at an affordable cost.
Why Our IT Business Analyst Course Is Better
The one industry where the worn out phrase “you get what you pay for” is extremely questionable is the education industry. The pricing of most courses of education is quite frankly ridiculous in terms of the ROI you can expect to see. We’re proud to be an exception to that rule, providing quality education opportunities at genuine value prices.
Since free tertiary education was abolished in Australia, many universities and colleges have gone absolutely crazy with their pricing. A single unit of postgraduate study in some university courses can cost over $3000, and the price goes up every year without fail. This happens because prices are typically set according to the reputation of the institution conferring the qualification and not according to what the qualification is actually worth.
We don’t operate that way. Our pricing is intended to make it possible for anyone wanting to upgrade their skills in Business Analysis to have the opportunity to do so. We also are providing better value because:
- All of our instructors are experts with genuine industry experience as Business Analysts (the instructors for our IT courses have experience in Data Analytics relevant to the IT industry). Many academic courses are populated entirely by academics with little field experience, if they have any at all.
- We use innovative content delivery mechanisms to provide the best learning experience for our students.
- We provide personal 1:1 coaching via Skype, telephone, or email.
- We give our students a full 12 months of access to our entire library of online learning resources.
- Our courses are approved by the IIBA and we are an IIBA Endorsed Education Provider.
These advantages are rare for training providers in this country, but put together as a whole they make us unique. Nobody is providing better value for this kind of training anywhere in Australia. Find out more by getting in touch today.
Business Analysis Excellence provides various online training courses for business analysts including Babok Courses, Short BA Courses, Agile BA Courses & CBAP Courses . Also, there are few IIBA ertifications available around the world including CCBA Certification, CBAP Certification, BABOK Certification, ECBA Certification & IIBA Certification to progress their career as a Business Analyst. To find out more, get in touch and ask us anything. We are happy to answer your questions & to provide more information you need about our courses.
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The Requirements Engineering Course
Other good Business Analyst courses to start with includes Requirements Engineering courses. These courses will teach you about requirements gathering techniques such asworkshop facilitation, requirement interviews and observation. It will teach you about writing good requirements, managing all your requirements, requirements traceability and managing change to requirements. It is a great type of course to attend after you’ve done the foundation business analysis course.
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- Your own dedicated CBAP ® tutor for support.
- Earn 16 PD hours.
- Fully IIBA® Endorsed Training.
- Unlimited email support throughout!
- Study when and from where ever you want to in the world.
Modelling Courses – When do they become useful?
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
A good place to start these days for a modelling based Business Analyst courses are at the Unified Modeling Language or more widely known as UML focused courses. It is important that this is not a methodology but a unified language! The great thing about UML is that you can choose what you learn about first. There are some very good business focussed models to start with when you learn UML such as Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams. In all my experience as a Business Analyst those are probably the two most important UML diagrams for a business analysis perspective to learn about when dealing with your non-technical audience. The fantastic thing is that your more technically minded architects and developers all understand UML really well and can translate your diagrams into their technical models seamlessly. Other good UML modeling to understand is the object or Class Model and the Sequence Diagram.
Business Process Modeling Courses
BPMN based Business Analyst courses are good to do if you are planning to work on large business process transformation programs or if you would like to specialize and become a Business Process Analyst. This is the industry standard and an accepted business process methodology to follow. Lots of companies uses this standard and therefore it is great course to put on your resume.
Specialised Courses
Agile Business Analyst Courses, the absolute hot topic!
You may be shouting – but what about Agile? Yes, Agile. That is a great specialization to consider when you develop your skills as a Business Analyst. Agile Business Analyst courses are in high demand and lots of people are very interested to develop their skills in this. That is absolutely fantastic and should be pursued. Something to keep in mind though is that at the moment (and this might change in future) there are two camps of projects: Those who are Agile (or aspiring to be) and those who are more traditionally waterfall based. If you like to work at a highly interactive and shorter bursts of activity on a project or program, go with Agile! It essentially uses the SDLC but manages the cycles in a highly controlled but really short and sharply fashion which allows very good response times with business requirement change. People who go onto true Agile projects, will not easily return to other more traditional ones. There are however still a huge market for more traditional project which has lots of other highly rewarding attributes.
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- Your own dedicated CBAP ® tutor for support.
- Earn 16 PD hours.
- Fully IIBA® Endorsed Training.
- Unlimited email support throughout!
- Study when and from where ever you want to in the world.
Last but by no means least…
Soft skills courses for business analysts
As business analysts we really must remember to include soft skill courses into our development plans. We depend heavily on our relationship building skills to perform our jobs and the better we can get our interpersonal communication skills, the more rewarding our outcome will be. Consider doing a Presentation Skills course, a rapport building course and Conflict Management course as part of your suite of Business Analyst Courses you are planning for your professional development.
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