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Strategic Enterprise Analysis for the BA

Overview

  • Course Code: BA102
  • Duration: 2 days
  • Price: $1195

    • This course addresses the Senior BA’s role in supporting strategic goals and objectives by leveraging the Business Architecture. Based on concepts from the IIBA® Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area (KA), the course covers typical deliverables for Strategic Analysis, why strategic analysis work is done, and how it ties to project work. You will learn how to apply Business Analysis skills to Strategic Enterprise Analysis activities, understand the basic views of Business Architecture, apply Strategic Analysis to the planning of roadmaps and create a business case to fund the roadmap of work.

    AudienceTop Of Page

    • BAs at any level who satisfy the prerequisites
    • Senior BAs and their managers

    ObjectivesTop Of Page

    Introduction to strategic analysis

    Introduction to strategic thinking and cognitive analysis:

    An introduction to concepts related to thought and analysis.
    • Definition of strategic thinking
    • Relationship of strategic thinking to business analysis
    • Cognitive analysis and its application with enterprise change

    Analysis at the Strategic Level:

    The application of Business Analysis techniques to change at the Enterprise level

    • Strategic thinking and the BABOK
    • Cognitive Analysis and the BA

    Business goals and strategic analysis

    Goals Elicitation and Analysis:

    The value of Goals in Strategic Enterprise Analysis, and how to discover them

    • Goals and Strategic Enterprise Analysis
    • Effective Goals Elicitation
    • Applying SWOT to Goals

    Goals and organizational structure:

    How to deconstruct and represent/model goals; tying goals to organizational structure and location

    • Goal deconstruction
    • Organizational Structure and physical locations/capabilities
    • Goals and the Organizational Structure

    Aligning BA deliverables to strategic analysis

    The Functional View:

    Understanding how a business will present itself to various interested parties within its environment, and tying this presentation back to goals.

    • What is a Business Functionality and Business Façade View?
    • Why is Business Functionality important to Strategic Analysis?
    • How to represent the Functional View of a business

    The Process View:

    Understanding how a business needs to operate internally in order to support the functionality it exposes, including Six Sigma and other process modeling techniques

    • What is a Business Process View?
    • Why is Process important to Strategic Analysis?
    • How to represent the Process View

    The Business Entity View:

    Understanding the information that a business collects and manipulates and how it is used strategically to support business functionality and processes.

    • What is a Business Entity View?
    • Why is an understanding of Business Entities important to Strategic Analysis?
    • How to represent the Business Entity View

    The Other Views:

    Understanding what other BA content may be useful in comprehending a business.

    • What other views might be useful?
    • Why might these other views be important to Strategic Analysis?
    • How to represent these other views

    Applying strategic analysis

    The future of the business:

    What future states imply for change; the different ways Strategic Analysis can be used to define types of business change.

    • Business Evolution and Revolution
    • Business Operating Model Transformation
    • Business Acquisition

    Enterprise Strategic Analysis and Architecture

    Enterprise Analysis and Zachman:

    Understanding the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture; tying architecture to strategic analysis with the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture.

    • The intent of the Zachman Framework
    • Tying Zachman to Strategic Enterprise Analysis work

    Enterprise Analysis and TOGAF:

    Understanding TOGAF for Enterprise Architecture; tying Architecture to strategic analysis with the TOGAF

    • The intent of the TOGAF
    • Tying TOGAF to Strategic Enterprise Analysis work

    Envisioned Future States and Architecture:

    How architecture is used to lay out the future state of a business

    PrerequisitesTop Of Page

    This course may be taken alone as a standalone course, where trainees have acquired some prior experience as BAs. Trainees taking this course in the context of the complete program are advised to take it at the end, as a capstone course that ties together all of the techniques learned throughout the program.

    OtherTop Of Page

    Why Attend this Course? Senior BAs need to be able to think strategically, beyond the gathering of requirements for a given problem, towards a focus on the strategic goals of the enterprise. Without this perspective, software solutions and company resources cannot be effectively targeted towards higher-level business goals, objectives and requirements.

    Class Format

    Trainees work in teams, developing a case study over the course of a project. The instructor introduces each step by reviewing techniques required at the time. Working individually and in groups (as appropriate for the step), trainees perform BA activities and create deliverables, with the instructor acting as mentor. After each step is completed, the instructor takes up common issues that arose during the workshop. An option is also provided for practical testing of trainees upon completion of the course through the development of a case study. (A comprehensive case study and sample solution are available for this purpose.)