View Greta's LinkedIn Newsletter Business analysis may seem like a broad term, but it fulfills a very specific demand within a company’s operations. A business analyst identifies business needs, and recommends relevant solutions and the requirements needed to deliver those solutions. However, some companies may not have dedicated business analysts, and it often falls to project managers to perform business analysis duties. In this course, Greta Blash shows project managers how to incorporate business analysis into their workflow. Greta illustrates the concepts by looking at a topic familiar to project managers—projects—through the lens of business analysis, starting with the pre-project phase where needs are identified, to identifying stakeholders, developing a project roadmap, analyzing requirements, all the way to closure and deployment. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to employ business analysis concepts to avoid inefficiencies, mistakes, and reworking, and deliver your projects on budget and on time.
Topics include:
- Define terminology used in project management and business analysis.
- Explain the need to have all relevant stakeholders identified before a project is started.
- Differentiate between the roles of a project manager and a business analyst.
- Explore ways to determine stakeholder requirements for a project.
- Describe the various types of stakeholder requirement documentation.
- Relate stakeholder expectations to solutions that a project provides.