Business Analysis: Defining Change Strategies
By Milena Pajic
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Description
This course explains thoroughly the strategy analysis knowledge area and its main purpose, defining the most effective way to employ the capabilities of an organization in order to achieve a set of goals and objectives. In this course, Business Analysis: Defining Change Strategies, you will gain the ability to analyze current state, define future state, perform risk assessment, and define change strategy. First, you will learn that strategies can exist for an entire organization, for a division, department or region, and for a product, project, or just an iteration. Next, you will discover what it takes for defining change strategies to begin, how the inputs translate to outputs for each of the tasks, and when the strategy is considered established. Finally, you will explore how to understand the business analysis work that is conducted in close collaboration with stakeholders because they need to make a decision whether to address the need for change or not. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of defining change strategies needed to round your business analysis know-how.
About the author
Milena Pajic has more than a decade-long career in IT industry, leading distributed teams and managing projects on the international level. Software developer by education, she dug deep into the code, earned significant hands-on experience and learned the rules of the game
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Course Overview
Hi. My name is Milena Pajic, and thank you for joining me on my course, Business Analysis: Defining Change Strategies. I am a Master of Computer Science, PMP, and CBAP, professional Scrum Master, and a true kanban evangelist. This course aims to help you comprehend the strategy analysis knowledge area, prepare for the IIBA certification, and master the skills of business analysis, plus you can earn Professional Development Units, PDUs, and Continuing Development Units, CDUs, by completing this course. The main topics that we will cover in the course include the tasks of the knowledge area, analyze current state, define future state, assess risks, and define change strategy. Who can benefit from taking this course? Business professionals with an array of competencies, knowledge, and experience ranging from an understanding of system engineering concepts, business case development, modeling techniques and methods, leadership, or to project management. Also, the course is aimed at people who work with business analysts to better understand the required set of skills in their scope of work. With appealing memorization techniques presented, the team from an imaginary software product development company, and an abundance of real-life scenarios, you will be able to get a complete deep dive into the process of defining change strategy. Join me and embrace the opportunity to expand your skillset.