Meeting the

EverChanging
Needs of
Todays
Business
Analyst

ESIs Refined
Business Analysis
Professional
Development
Programme
building talent, driving results

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Introducing ESIs Refined Business

Professional Development Program
Defining Business
Analysis

ESIA Thought Leader

in Business Analysis

Business analysis is essential to

successful project delivery. This
increasingly vital function calls
upon business analysts to elicit
justifiable, verifiable and traceable
requirements from stakeholders
and then communicate those
requirements to project managers
and IT personnel.

Since the emergence of business

analysis, ESI has been there as a
thought leader in the discipline.
Our expert programme offers
your employees the best practices
defined by the International
Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
(BABOK) and applies our more
than 25 years of experience
working with organisations around
the world.

Accurate requirements are an

essential tool for navigating the
all-important triple constraint
and delivering successful
projects. While correctly defined
requirements lead to project
completion and success, they
also have the power to help
organisations effectively prioritise
their projects and allocate
resources accordingly.
If applied properly, best practices
in business analysis will help your
organisation

Accomplish strategic objectives

Make better decisions at all

levels of your organisation

Increase stakeholder
involvement and satisfaction

Improve communication
organisation wide

Improve productivity and

efficiency in requirements
analysis

IIBA, the IIBA logo, BABOK and Business Analysis Body of

Knowledge are registered trademarks owned by International Institute of Business Analysis.

ESIs Business Analysis Professional

Development Programme is
designed to meet the needs of the
many professionals who perform
business analysis functions
whether they call themselves
business analysts, process analysts,
project managers, systems
engineers, systems designers or
solutions architects.

Introducing ESIs
Refined Business
Analysis Courses
As part of our commitment to
standardising best practices and to
the continued development in the
field, ESI has refined our Business
Analysis Professional Development
Programme.
The evolved programme features
three all-new courses and four
courses that have been thoroughly
updated. This is all part of our
continuing effort to help ensure
that your business analysts have
the knowledge, skills and practices
to ensure the success of your
organisations projects.

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mme

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Use Case Modelling

Our Introduction to Business Analysis

course has been overhauled to
become Foundations of Business
Analysis. Our updated course now
represents the role of the modern
business analyst and aligns to the
IIBA BABOK.

Our Use Case Modelling for

Business Analysis course has been
overhauled to become Use Case
Modelling. The updated course
focuses on the most current
competencies for creating use
cases and use case diagrams and
incorporates key content from
our former course Business Object
Oriented Modelling.

How to Gather and Document

User Requirements
This course has been updated to
reflect ESIs new standard for our
business analysis courses, along
with continued alignment to
industry practices. This how-to
course introduces the roles of the
business analyst as they relate
to the elicitation, analysis and
documentation of requirements.

Our popular course Logical Data

and Process Modelling has been
expanded into two separate
courses:
Logical Data Modelling
This updated course focuses on
the most current competencies
for logical data modelling.

Process Modelling Management

This all-new course offers
participants the formal training
to plan, model and execute
requirements analysis in a
process improvement project.

Facilitation Techniques for

Requirements Development
This all-new course offers
participants the formal training
needed to successfully conduct
facilitation sessions to elicit and
analyse requirements.
Strategic Enterprise Analysis
This new advanced course
provides participants with the
knowledge needed to begin
working as part of a strategic
enterprise analysis team. It
covers the major activities of
strategic enterprise analysis that
must be conducted to study the
enterprise architecture.

Then take additional courses for a total

of five to earn your certificate...
How to Gather and
Document User
Requirements
Process Modelling Management
Use Case Modelling
Logical Data Modelling
Testing Techniques for Tracing
and Validating
Requirements
Facilitation Techniques for
Requirements Development
Strategic Enterprise Analysis

New!

Elective Course
You may take one elective at any
time. Choose from:
Managing Projects
Managing IT Projects
Project Leadership, Management
and Communications
Negotiation Skills for
Project Managers
Core Business Skills courses

Our Introduction to Testing for

Business Analysts course has
been overhauled to become
Testing Techniques for Tracing
and Validating Requirements. The
course now has more emphasis
on traceability and user and
acceptance testing from the
business analysts perspective.

Foundations of
Business Analysis

Logical Data Modelling and

Process Modelling Management

Testing Techniques for Tracing

and Validating Requirements

You may choose to start by taking...

Foundations of Business Analysis

Upon successfully completing therequired

five courses, you will receive a Professional
Certificate inBusiness Analysis awarded by
ESIand The George Washington University.
You will also receive the Certified Business
Analyst credential awarded by ESI.

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= available online via ESIs Virtual Classroom

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ESIs Business Analysis

Success Model
To succeed as business analysts, your employees
must be able to produce high-quality requirements.
To do so, they must exhibit technical and
interpersonal skills while drawing on their
organisational knowledge to successfully
integrate stakeholder needs and meet
organisational goals.

BA
Success
Organisational Knowledge

Organisational Structure and Design, Organisational

Strategy, Principles of IT, Domain Knowledge,
Audit Ability (SOX, CMMi, Six Sigma),
Elicitation/Investigation/
Software Acquisition, Outsourcing
Verification Technique,
Facilitation, Communication,
Management (RFP, RFI, RFQ)
Requirements Validation/Solution
Relationship Building, Influencing,
Assessment, Business Process
Team-working, Stakeholder
Modelling and Management, Use Case
Management, Detail-Oriented, Problem
Analysis, Object Oriented Analysis, Enterprise
Solving, Leadership, Conflict Management,
Analysis, Change Management, Project
Stakeholder Analysis and Management
Management, Business Case Development

Weve designed our Business Analysis

Success Model to demonstrate the
best practices and standards that
business analysts must possess
to work effectively. Many of
these best practices fall
Interpersonal Skill
Technical Skill
outside of the specific
knowledge area of
business analysis. The
model points to Interpersonal Skills, Technical
Skills and Organisational Knowledge as proficiency
ESIs Business Analysis Process Model
components that are keys to successful requirements
gathering.
Each course in ESIs Business Analysis Professional
Each of these proficiencies is represented in our
suite of expert training programmes. For example,
through our Business Analysis Professional
Development Programme and Business Skills Training
Programme, your employees will gain both technical
and interpersonal skills. And, through our Project
Management Professional Development Programme,
business analysts will gain additional competencies in
requirements planning, scheduling, risk management
and communication planning.

Development Programme maps to our newly

developed Business Analysis Process Model. The
principles behind this essential model are applicable
to every phase of the project life cycle.
The model is designed to ensure consistency in the
execution of requirements development. It essentially
provides business analysts with a road map for
thorough requirements gathering. If they properly
use the model, business analysts will be able to
respond to and anticipate risk, identify appropriate
communication needs, and ensure that the gathered
requirements will ultimately meet the stakeholders
needs and lead to project success.
The phases of the model correspond directly with the
knowledge areas of the BABOK.

For more information on ESIs newly refined

Business Analysis Professional Development
Programme, visit www.esi-intl.com/Asia today.
February 2009

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