Duration : 3 days
Course Reference : HJB-BA112
Price : € 995,– excl. VAT per participant

Course Description :

Business analysts are increasingly involved in pre-project activities to ensure that solutions to business problems reflect the organization’s business strategy. This programme on Strategic Enterprise Analysis provides a practical framework to understand business strategy in order identify business needs, problems and opportunities. The application of the framework results in the identification and definition of initiatives to meet business needs and the justification of the investment necessary to deliver possible solutions. The activities include analyzing core competencies, performing customer value analysis, performing process management, examining the IT architecture, and evaluating the project portfolio. The course also examines the impact of service oriented architecture (SOA) on the enterprise architecture.

Course Objectives : This workshop will provide the participants with the skills to:

• Define initiatives for meeting the business goals
• Model the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architecture
• Identify core competencies for the organization
• Perform customer value analysis
• Plan for process management
• Identify the TO-BE IT architecture
• Recognize the importance of service-oriented architecture
• Manage the project portfolio
• Recognize the importance of impact analyses, risk analyses and feasibility studies
• Identify the components of an potential initiative package

Course Setup : A balanced mix of lecture, group discussions, and individual and team exercises are used to develop the skills necessary to elicitate, document and validate requirements.

Target Audience : Strategic Business Analysts, Strategic Advisors, Business Experts, Business Managers, Enterprise Architects and Project Managers

Professional Development Units :  21 PDU’s, 2.1 CEU’s, 21 IIBA CDU’s

BABOK Knowledge areas : This workshop will address the following knowledge areas:

• Business analysis planning & monitoring
• Elicitation
• Requirements management & communication
• Enterprise analysis
• Requirements analysis
• Solution analysis & validation

Course Outline: The following topics will be addressed in this workshop :

• Session 1 : Introduction to Strategic Enterprise Analysis
  • Developing a business strategy
  • Identifying components of the enterprise architecture
  • Planning for business rules, data management and change management
  • Creating initiative packages
  • Identifying core competencies
  • Leverage using core competenties
• Session 2 : Enterprise Architecture
  • Modeling the AS-IS and TO-BE enterprise architectures
  • Identifying the need for an impact analysis and feasibility study
  • Examining the initiative packages for the TO-BE enterprise architecture
• Session 3 : Customer Value Analysis
  • Performing customer value analysis
  • Using customer value analysis to improve the enterprise architecture
  • Create intiative packages
• Session 4 : Process Management
  • Recognizing components of a process improvement project plan
  • Examining the initiative package for new processes
• Session 5 : Building a Business Case
  • Identifying and analysing three types of feasibility:
    • technical feasibility
    • economic feasibility
    • organisational feasibility
  • Preparing a cost-benefit analysis
  • Presenting the business case
  • Obtaining agreement on the business case
  • Making the investment decision
• Session 6 : IT Architecture
  • Recognize the components of the IT architecture project plan
  • Ensuring the IT architecture supports the enterprise architecture
  • Examining the decision package for the TO-BE IT architecture
• Session 7 : Portfolio Management
  • Selecting projects to implement the TO-BE enterprise architecture.
  • Ensuring projects support the business strategy.
  • Prioritizing initiatives/projects