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Business Analysis for Project Teams (PMI-PBA)®
While project teams are responsible for accomplishing important organizational goals, business analysts help define what these goals should be and justify taking action by demonstrating the value of change. This series covers the fundamentals of business analysis most essential for those working as project leaders or as members of project teams. You’ll learn how to identify problems and opportunities, elicit information from stakeholders, generate and analyze data, discover and recommend solutions, and develop consensus for action. With these new skills, you’ll be better equipped to understand how project work aligns with organizational needs and strategic drivers, and be prepared to ensure the work of project teams generates the most timely benefit for stakeholders.
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Business Analysis for Project Teams
While project teams are responsible for accomplishing important organizational goals, business analysts help define what these goals should be and justify taking action by demonstrating the value of change. This series covers the fundamentals of business analysis most essential for those working as project leaders or as members of project teams. You’ll learn how to identify problems and opportunities, elicit information from stakeholders, generate and analyze data, discover and recommend solutions, and develop consensus for action. With these new skills, you’ll be better equipped to understand how project work aligns with organizational needs and strategic drivers, and be prepared to ensure the work of project teams generates the most timely benefit for stakeholders.
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What You'll Learn
- • Identify problems and opportunities by assessing needs, goals, and objectives
- • Effectively compare paths of action using qualitative and quantitative means
- • Analyze stakeholder characteristics and needs
- • Create a successful plan for business analysis
- • Coordinate efforts with project management
- • Elicit information from stakeholders, using a variety of direct and experiential methods
- • Establish baselines and measurement criteria to gauge success
- • Manage changes and conduct impact analysis effectively
- • Evaluate and facilitate deployment of solutions
- • Understand the analytical, technical and interpersonal skills needed by business analysts
- • Understand how to analyze organizational structures and apply this information to business analysis
- • Trace requirements and manage project scope
- • Review data and use simulation techniques to better understand business needs
- • Harness methods for modeling scope, processes, rules, data and interfaces effectively
- No experience with business analysis is necessary. This series is targeted at learners who have experience leading projects or working with project teams who are interested in learning more about how to set useful objectives and create value through their work.
- This series is aligned with the principles described in the Project Management Institute’s Standard for Business Analysis, and can be used to fulfill a portion of the training requirement for the PMI-PBA® (Professional in Business Analysis) certification.
- In order to earn a PMI-PBA® certification, you must complete one of the following sets of requirements:
- • Hold a secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree, or global equivalent), have 60 months of business analysis experience and complete 35 contact hours of education in business analysis.
- • Hold a bachelor’s degree (or global equivalent), have 36 months of business analysis experience and complete 35 contact hours of education in business analysis.
- Pluralsight is an Authorized Training Provider of the Project Management Institute.
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