BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis

Learning to Analyse Businesses

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The organisations are offering their latest products as well as services to the potential customers every year. This in itself is a quite cumbersome job. These companies aim to satisfy customers with these products and services. How to do so? The acquiring of a business analyst in an organisation helps to achieve objectives. Business Analysts recognize the needs of the customer based groups such as demography, interests, culture etc. Earlier on the job was being performed by the senior level management but as of now, it is the Business Analysts working as a separate identity who perform this job. Once the Business Analysts has given his report then the only production can start. We at MSP Training make sure that the delegates get the skills to do so from those who are already certified and experienced as regards the concepts of Business Analysis.

  • Understanding the Duties of A Business Analyst

  • Learn to Develop Business Strategies

  • Evaluate and Model Business Systems using various techniques.

  • High Salaries Post Certification

WHAT'S INCLUDED ?

Find out what's included in the training programme.

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Tutor Support

A dedicated tutor will be at your disposal throughout the training to guide you through any issues.

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Certificate

Delegates will get certification of completion at the end of the course.

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Courseware

Courseware will also be provided to the delegates so that they can revise the course after the training.

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Key Learning Points

Clear and concise objectives to guide delegates through the course.

PREREQUISITES

The BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis course being a foundation course comes with no prerequisite. However, BCS recommends the candidate to have a little knowledge about analysis. That would serve as an added advantage for the delegate.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience for this course are:

  • Project Managers
  • System Analysts

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

  • Business Analyst - The Role And Competencies
  • Strategy Analysis
  • Business System And Business Process Modelling
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Investigation And Modelling Techniques
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Business Case Development

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis is the stepping stone for courses such as Business Analysis, IS Consultancy and Business Change.  It lays the foundation for professional courses which culminate in the Professional or Expert module. These courses are mainly targeted towards Project Managers and System Developers. It is one of the courses from which a delegate can choose to complete the Knowledgebase module as a part of the  BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.

Exams

To clear the exam for the BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis, the delegate is required to obtain 65% marks from the 40 questions that have to be attempted. The candidates must get a minimum of 26 out of a maximum of 40 marks. The duration of the exam is one hour. No calculators are allowed by BCS during the exam.


PROGRAM CONTENT

  • Business Analysis – An Understanding
    • The roots of business analysis
    • The development of business analysis
      • The impact of outsourcing
      • Competitive advantage of using IT
      • Successful business change
      • The importance of the business analyst
      • Business analysts as internal consultants
    • Bussiness Analysis and Its Scope
      • The scope of analysis activities
      • Defining Strategic analysis
      • Analysing IT systems
    • Business analysis - an UnderstandingUsing a complete methodology
    • Roles and Responsibilities of a Business Analyst
      • Business analyst and his role
      • Business analyst role and its additional features
  • Skills of a Business Analyst
    • Personal Traits
    • Knowledge of the Business
    • Professional methods
    • Developing Analyst Skills
  • Strategy Analysis
    • The background for the approach
    • Strategy – It’s Definition
    • The developing of a Policy
    • Outward Analysis of the Environment
      • Using the PESTLE method to perform analysis
      • Five Forces Model of Porter
    • Inner Analysis of the Environment
      • MOST analysis – Defining and Using
    • Auditing Resources
    • Boston Box
  • SWOT (Strength , Weaknesses, Oppurtunities and Takeover) assessment
  • Implementing policy
    • The McKinsey 7-S Framework
    • Using The Balanced Business Scorecard to track activities
    • KPI’s and the Critical Success Factors
  • The Business Analysis Process Prototype
    • Solving Problems
    • Business analysis process model – Its Stages
    • The process model stage
    • Objectives
    • Procedures
    • Techniques
  • Techniques for Investigation
    • Interviews
      • Pros and Cons
      • Preparing
      • Conducting
      • Following up
    • Reflection
      • Pros and Cons
      • Formal Reflections
      • Protocol study
      • Surveillance
      • Ethnographic readings
    • Seminars
      • Pros and Cons
      • Preparing
      • Facilitation
      • Procedures
      • Follow Up the Seminar
    • Situations
      • Benefits and shortcomings
      • Ways to for develop scenarios
      • Documenting
    • Modelling
      • Rewards and hindrances
    • Quantifiable Methodologies  
      • Surveys or Questionnaires
      • Special Purpose Records
      • Activity Sampling
      • Document Analysis
    • Documenting the current situation
      • Rich Pictures
      • Mind Maps
  • Stakeholder Analysis and Management
    • Stakeholder categories and identification
    • Stakeholders Analysis
      • The Power/Interest Grid
    • Stakeholder management strategies
    • Managing stakeholders
      • Stakeholder plan/assessment
    • The Stakeholder Perspectives – An Understanding
      • Soft Systems Methodology
      • Analysing the perspectives
      • CATWOE
    • Business activity models
      • An Overview Of business activity model
      • Learn About Activity Types
      • Forming a consensus model
  • Modelling Business Processes
    • Organisational context
      • Functional view of an organisation
    • An alternative view of an organisation
    • The corporate view of business processes
    • Value propositions
    • Process models
      • Business events
      • Developing the business process model
    • Analysing the as-is process model
    • Improving business processes (to-be business process)
  • Defining the solution
    • Gap analysis
      • Pointing Out Focus Areas
      • The Gap Analysis Framework
      • Formulating options
    • Introduction to Business Architecture
    • Definition of Business Architecture
    • Business Architecture techniques
      • Definition of a capability model
      • Definition of a value stream
  • Making a Business and Financial Case
    • The business case in the project lifecycle
    • Identifying options
    • Assessing project feasibility
    • Structure of a business case
    • Investment Assesment
      • Payback – An Overview
      • Discounted cash flow and Internal Return Rate
  • Establishing the Requirements
    • A framework for requirements engineering
    • Actors in requirements engineering
      • The business representatives
      • The project team
    • Requirements elicitation
      • Tacit and explicit knowledge
      • Requirements elicitation techniques
    • Requirements analysis
      • Requirements filters
      • SMART requirements
    • Requirements validation
  • Documenting and Managing Requirements
    • The requirements document
      • Structure
      • Content of the requirements document
    • The requirements catalogue
      • Types of requirements
        • functional and non-functional
        • general
        • technical
      • Hierarchy of requirements
      • Recording requirements
    • Manage requirements
      • Elements of requirements management
  • Modelling Requirements
    • Modelling system functions
      • Use case diagrams
    • Modelling system data
      • Entity Relationship Diagrams
        • Entities, attributes and relationships
        • Types of relationships
      • Class Models
        • Objects and classes
        • Attributes
        • Associations
  • Delivering the Requirements
    • Providing the solution
    • Context
    • Lifecycles
      • The waterfall lifecycle
      • The ‘V’ design lifecycle
      • Incremental lifecycle
      • Iterative systems development lifecycle
  • Delivering the Business Solution
    • BA role in the organisation change lifecycle
    • Design stage
    • Implementation stage
    • Realisation stage

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ABOUT Eastleigh

Eastleigh is located in Hampshire, UK. It is one of the main cities in the area of Eastleigh. The town is the part of South Hampshire and lies between Winchester and Southampton. The foremost considerable development was a railway town. The city located on River Itchen is one of the Uk’s premier chalk streams.

 

History:

Eastleigh is situated on the ancient Roman road that was constructed in 79 A.D. between Bitterne and Winchester. During the Roman era, the Eastleigh area was dominated by Roman people as it was confirmed after the excavation of coffins, their remains and others weapons. A record shows the existence of village named Saxon village since 932 A.D.

One more additional evidence of the presence of the Romans was declared in a survey conducted by TIME. King Ethelstan granted some portion of land in North Stoneham during military aid. There is one museum called Eastleigh Museum in the town. It is located in the High Street, and it holds the information regarding the city and the nearby villages.

 

Education:

There are two colleges for further education in Eastleigh including Eastleigh College and Barton Peveril Sixth Form College. Norwood Primary School, the Crescent Primary School, Cherbourg Primary School are famous primary schools that are giving services to the northern city. Crestwood College is the only secondary school in the town.

 

Religion

In the early 1930s, the church was founded called Emmanuel Baptist Church. It is located in the former Desborough Mission Hall.

 

Sport:

Eastleigh F.C.

It is the only senior football team that is playing from 2014-2015 in the Conference Premier.

 

Solent Kestrels

The game of basketball is very prominent in the region, and Solent kestrels are the most followed basketball club here. The region's club represented in the second highest level sports event, i.e. the English basketball league division. It was promoted from 2nd division to first when it became champions in a 2015-2016 season. The team usually play under the supervision of coach Matt Guymon and mostly play its game at Fleming Park Leisure centre.

 

Eastleigh Ladies Hockey Club

Situated in South Hampshire, Eastleigh Ladies Hockey Club fields two teams in Hampshire Women’s League along with playing floodlit and indoor league games.

 

Eastleigh Rugby Football Club

“The Hub” is the source through which the Eastleigh Rugby Football Club plays. Presently, there are four senior sides, colts and young player improvement.

 

Eastleigh Running Club

Eastleigh has a broadly based running club for those who are interested in running.

 

Politics

MP Mims Davies represents the House of Commands in Eastleigh. In general election of 2015, she was designated for the constituency with a majority vote of 9,147. She won against the Mike Thornton of Liberal Democrats who was elected at the elections of 2013 with the majority of 1,771 votes. Prior to 2005, the Eastleigh constituency MP was David Chidgey and later on, this seat was won by Huhne.

 

Transport:

Rail

Eastleigh has a famous railway station named as Eastleigh railway station. It is the foremost railway station that is located on the South Western Main Line. It provides fast and regular services to Winchester to Southampton, Poole and Bournemouth. It is connecting station for other two routes namely Eastleigh-Romsey Line and Eastleigh-Fareham.

 

Air

Eastleigh has 20th largest airport in England namely Southampton Airport. It is served by a dedicated machine railway station that is nest station stop from Eastleigh railway station.

 

Bus

The bus services are provided by Bluestar, Briijan Tours, Stagecoach, First Group Hampshire, Xelabus and Wilts and Dorset.

 

Road

The M3 and M27 motorway are also giving access to travellers owing to its location near to the junction point of Eastleigh town.