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(BA102) Strategic Enterprise Analysis for the BA (Click for PDF version) Duration: 2 days [Also available in abbreviated from as a 1-day overview] Why Attend this Course? Senior BAs need to be able to think strategically, beyond the gathering of requirements for a given problem, towards a focus on the strategic goals of the enterprise. Without this perspective, software solutions and company resources cannot be effectively targeted towards higher-level business goals, objectives and requirements. Audience
• BAs at any level who satisfy the prerequisites • Senior BAs and their managers Prerequisites This course may be taken alone as a standalone course, where trainees have acquired some prior experience as BAs. Trainees taking this course in the context of the complete program are advised to take it at the end, as a capstone course that ties together all of the techniques learned throughout the program. Class Format Trainees work in teams, developing a case study over the course of a project. The instructor introduces each step by reviewing techniques required at the time. Working individually and in groups (as appropriate for the step), trainees perform BA activities and create deliverables, with the instructor acting as mentor. After each step is completed, the instructor takes up common issues that arose during the workshop. An option is also provided for practical testing of trainees upon completion of the course through the development of a case study. (A comprehensive case study and sample solution are available for this purpose.) Objectives IIntroduction to strategic analysis Introduction to strategic thinking and cognitive analysis: An introduction to concepts related to thought and analysis • Definition of strategic thinking • Relationship of strategic thinking to business analysis • Cognitive analysis and its application with enterprise change Analysis at the Strategic Level: The application of Business Analysis techniques to change at the Enterprise level • Strategic thinking and the BABOK • Cognitive Analysis and the BA Business goals and strategic analysis Goals Elicitation and Analysis: The value of Goals in Strategic Enterprise Analysis, and how to discover them • Goals and Strategic Enterprise Analysis • Effective Goals Elicitation • Applying SWOT to Goals Goals and organizational structure: How to deconstruct and represent/model goals; tying goals to organizational structure and location • Goal deconstruction • Organizational Structure and physical locations/capabilities • Goals and the Organizational Structure Aligning BA deliverables to strategic analysis The Functional View: Understanding how a business will present itself to various interested parties within its environment, and tying this presentation back to goals • What is a Business Functionality and Business Façade View? • Why is Business Functionality important to Strategic Analysis? • How to represent the Functional View of a business The Process View: Understanding how a business needs to operate internally in order to support the functionality it exposes, including Six Sigma and other process modeling techniques • What is a Business Process View? • Why is Process important to Strategic Analysis? • How to represent the Process View The Business Entity View: Understanding the information that a business collects and manipulates and how it is used strategically to support business functionality and processes • What is a Business Entity View? • Why is an understanding of Business Entities important to Strategic Analysis? • How to represent the Business Entity View The Other Views: Understanding what other BA content may be useful in comprehending a business • What other views might be useful? • Why might these other views be important to Strategic Analysis? • How to represent these other views Applying strategic analysis The future of the business: What future states imply for change; the different ways Strategic Analysis can be used to define types of business change • Business Evolution and Revolution • Business Operating Model Transformation • Business Acquisition Enterprise Strategic Analysis and Architecture Enterprise Analysis and Zachman: Understanding the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture; tying architecture to strategic analysis with the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture • The intent of the Zachman Framework • Tying Zachman to Strategic Enterprise Analysis work Enterprise Analysis and TOGAF: Understanding TOGAF for Enterprise Architecture; tying Architecture to strategic analysis with the TOGAF • The intent of the TOGAF • Tying TOGAF to Strategic Enterprise Analysis work Envisioned Future States and Architecture: How architecture is used to lay out the future state of a business • Business Architecture as a component of Enterprise Architecture • Strategic Analysis as a means of informing architecture Aligning Business and Technology: How business and technology should collaborate for success • Business need driving coordinated change to the business and the underlying technology • Why business should drive technology, not the other way around • Strategic Analysis facilitating the alignment of business and technology Planning and Business Cases The Planning and Business Case Work: Planning implementation of the change and obtaining approval for the change • Strategic Analysis as input to Planning • Risk and Prioritization • Roadmaps and Milestones • The Business Case Workshops • Workshop 1: Business Case development using TOGAF • Workshop 2: Business Case development using the Zachman Framework |
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