Improve Your Business Analysis Skills

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Free Online Course: Improve Your Business Analysis Skills provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Improve Your Business Analysis Skills is taught by Greta Blash, PgMP, PMP, PBA, BAPO, ACP, DASSM, CDAI, Angela Wick, Haydn Thomas, Natasha Kasimtseva, MS, PMP, CSM, Alexia Vernon, Brenda Bailey-Hughes and John H. Johnson.

Overview
  • Today, most professionals use business analysis to make key decisions to meet business objectives. Learn the necessary tasks and activities so you can help your organization achieve its goals by leveraging business analysis.

    • Learn the skills needed to excel at business analysis (BA).
    • Perform key BA activities to find solutions.
    • Discover how to perform BA, regardless of your role.

Syllabus
  • Courses under this program:
    Course 1: Business Analysis Foundations
    -Learn the foundations of business analysis. Explore the role of the business analyst and the BA process, from conducting a needs assessment to release planning.

    Course 2: Business Analysis Foundations: Competencies
    -Get up to speed with the diverse set of competencies that business analysts need in order to be successful in their role.

    Course 3: Business Analysis Foundations: Business Process Modeling
    -Explore the benefits of using business process modeling to make sense of your company's business activities, including commonly used process modeling diagrams and how to use them.

    Course 4: Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
    -Explore how to leverage elicitation and analysis techniques to define great requirements. Learn why these techniques are important and how to tailor them to your project.

    Course 5: Managing Project Stakeholders
    -Stakeholder management is key to project success. Learn how to identify stakeholder needs and expectations, both explicit and implicit, and build and sustain engagement.

    Course 6: Communicating to Drive People to Take Action
    -Want to get others excited about an important initiative, a great cause, or a new idea? Learn how to communicate and inspire people to take action.

    Course 7: Effective Listening
    -Communications experts Tatiana Kolovou and Brenda Bailey-Hughes help you assess your listening skills and develop more-effective listening behaviors.

    Course 8: Data Analytics for Business Professionals
    -Learn how to use data analytics to make better decisions and gain competitive advantage as a business professional.