Planning for Business Analysis
By Casey Ayers
Course info
Course info
Description
Business analysis is increasingly vital to today's business environment. By identifying problems and opportunities, discovering and recommending solutions, and fostering a comprehensive understanding of stakeholder requirements, business analysts can help organizations choose and structure projects and initiatives more effectively. This course focuses on planning for effective business analysis, including information on identifying and analyzing stakeholders, understanding the relationship between business analysis and project management, creating and adding details to business analysis plans, and earning approval for plans so that the important work of business analysis can begin.
About the author
Casey has experience leading projects in many fields, including healthcare, digital media, mobile app development, consumer product design, education, and event management. He's constantly in pursuit of new challenges and loves to share what he learns along the way with others.
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Transcript
Hi everyone, my name is Casey Ayers and welcome to my course Planning for Business Analysis.
I am a project manager and strategic consultant with experience in mobile development, healthcare, consumer product development and more. I earned my MBA with a concentration in entrepreneurship and marketing at the Crummer School of Business at Rollins College and am a PMP-certified project manager. I’m the author of Pluralsight’s series of PMP prep courses and it’s my pleasure to now explore the world of business analysis with you.
Business analysis is increasingly vital to today’s business environment. By identifying problems and opportunities, discovering and recommending solutions, and fostering a comprehensive understanding of stakeholder requirements, business analysts can help organizations choose and structure projects and initiatives more effectively.
This course is the second in a five course series on business analysis.
Some of the major topics that we will cover in this course include:
- Identifying and analyzing stakeholders
- The relationship between project management and business analysis
- Creating a comprehensive business analysis plan that sets your team up for success and
- Earning approval to move ahead with the important work of business analysis
Before beginning the course you should have an interest in business analysis and at least a bit of exposure to project management or business analysis within your organization.
This course – and others in the series – can help you not only learn more about business analysis, but also prepare for business analysis certifications like the CBAP or PMI-PBA, or earn continuing education credit toward certifications like the PMP.
I hope you’ll join me on this journey to learn more about business analysis with the Planning for Business Analysis course, at Pluralsight.