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 ?

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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 Sunderland

Sunderland is a coastal city lies at the mouth of the Wear River, around 80 meters above sea level. It is located in the centre of the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, local government district in England with a population of around 174,286 according to 2011 census. It is situated about 10 miles southeast of Newcastle and 240 miles north of London. The River Wear flows through the centre of the town and divides in a deeply incised valley. The town’s name is originated from sundered land meaning land kept aside for a special purpose or land sundered. The evidence of three settlements found historically in a county in North East England or County Durham on the site of present-day Sunderland.

The area of Sunderland Monkwearmouth is located on the north bank of the Wear River and settled in 674 during the foundation of Jarrow Abbey by the Benedict Biscop. Another settlement Bishopwearmouth founded in 930, lies at the southern side of the river. The town developed as a port over a period and became famous for trading salt and coal. The construction of ships started on the river in the 14th century. With the passage of time, the port of the town absorbed Monkwearmouth and Bishopwearmouth by the 19th century. The town became the major centre for the automotive industry and the service sector. It has been suggested that the person who is born or lives in the town, sometimes known as Mackem. The concept came into existence in the late 20th century and not used until 1980.

History

The early inhabitants of the town were the hunter-gatherers during Stone Age. The remains of the period were found during the excavations of St Peter’s Church in Monkwearmouth including the artefacts and microliths. The area of Hastings Hill became a primary place of burial and central point of activity in the Neolithic period, the final phase of the Stone Age. In the pre and post-Roman period, the area was occupied by the Brigantes around the Wear River. During the Anglo-Saxon era, the town became an important centre of knowledge and learning and library with approximately 300 volumes was also located in the town.  

The long trench, a tactic of warfare was found as one artefact of the English civil war. In the 17th century, the three original settlements (Monkwearmouth, Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth) were integrated and known as Sunderland-near-the-Sea. The factors behind the incorporation included the construction of ships on the banks of the river, salt panning and success of the port of Sunderland. The construction of Sunderland barracks was completed in 1794. These barracks included the 80-bed hospital, soldier’s quarters and housing for 1528 infantry troops. The second iron bridge of the world was built in the town in 1796.

The town was severally affected by the major Indian epidemic Cholera, broke out in the town in 1831. The disease spread in other parts of the country resulted in the death of more than 32000 people. The town again suffered from the worst disaster of the Victoria Hall in 1883 leading to the death of 183 children due to lack of enough way to pass during a variety show. This led to the invention of the concept of push bar emergency doors. The economy of the town shifted to chemical and motor manufacturing after the fall of heavy industries in the early 19th century. The electric tram system arrived in the town in 1900, later on, these were replaced by the buses in 1940.

The town saw remarkable expansion in the shipbuilding business during the First World War and became the prime target of a Zeppelin raid in 1916. Approx. 2500 citizens of the town served in the armed forces during the war period. The town also attacked by the German bombers during the Second World War leading to the destruction of 4000 homes and death of 267 people in the town. The coal mining and shipbuilding industry declined and ended by the late 20th century resulted in the unemployment of the local workforce.