What Project Managers Need to Know about BusiNess Analysis

Imagine you’re assigned project management responsibilities for a multi-million-dollar project, but discover there are no business analyst resources being funded, leaving the requirements-related work your responsibility. Or perhaps, you have business analysts on your project, but your training and experience has you feeling ill-informed on what the analysts should be doing, making the management of their work extremely difficult. How will you know if important requirements related tasks are being overlooked or over-performed?

In this course, take a deep dive into the most important requirements-related activities all projects should be incorporating into their plans and backlogs. Join instructor Laura Paton to gain a clear understanding of what great business analysis looks like on successful projects, along with the knowledge you need to better plan and manage requirements-related work-whether you have assigned business analysts or are responsible for this work yourself.

Learning objectives

• Compare and contrast the disciplines of project management and business analysis.
• Identify the key responsibilities of project managers and business analysts.
• Describe the techniques used for eliciting and analyzing requirements.
• Explain the process of stakeholder identification and analysis.
• Recognize the steps involved in integrating business analysis outputs into project management plans.

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