Business Analysis Anywhere Anytime

Stay current with the many changes in business analysis. Business analysis principles and concepts remain the same over time. The ways to use business analysis, its principles and concepts, and the ways to combine business analysis with the many methods and types of initiative practiced today differs widely and frequently.

Business analysis purpose is to always address the need and always contribute to delivering value. This can be for a model, or a major initiative.

Business analysis does it job by collaborating and communicating with stakeholders to conduct analysis, problem solving, and participate in many the ways for making decisions. A business analysis practitioner will understand the various types of analysis that an enterprise may need.

A foundational understanding of business analysis ensures making the above possible. This understanding contributes to better goals defined and outcomes delivered.

SITUATION | Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe)

The IIBA Toronto Business Analysis Foundation Course (click here for a description of the 9 modules) looks at 11 methods and how business analysis interacts with them. Let’s take a quick glance at Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe).

SAFe ?(scaledagileframework.com) has released ten versions of its evolving and emerging model in the past ten years. Today it offers five configurations (actually 4+1), and that is before everyone takes what they need, while leaving the rest?behind. It is currently being adapted by various large enterprises. SAFe offers something for everyone. SAFe offers a full description of business analysis; it has its own model of business analysis, but that fact alone is not necessarily helpful or sufficient.

It takes the principles and concepts of business analysis, such as what is codified in IIBA’s (iiba.org) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) v3 Guide, to successfully navigate through SAFe 6 and identify the opportunities for practitioner and practice alike. Know the power of what a full business analysis understanding contributes. This understanding and competency is the strength that a full business analysis understanding brings to all methods now and into the future. ?

The IIBA Toronto Business Analysis Foundation Course discusses SAFe 6, ten other methods, and whatever you are dealing with now. We can help you.

If you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it a lot, and learn a lot, and practice doing it a lot. And the way the world is constructed in this field, you have to keep learning, because the world keeps changing, and your competitors keep learning. So you have to get up each morning and try to go to bed that night a little wiser than you were when got up. ~Charlie Munger

Learn

There are multiple trainers, learning organizations, and coaches who deliver a quality understanding of business analysis in 2024. Some have built an understanding of business analysis that focuses on product or project. Others have built business analysis models that reflect current corporate practices and needs. Learn how business analysis performs in the marketplace in 2024! Compare them and decide to work with one or two that can meaningfully contribute to building your career.

SITUATION | ?Problem Analysis, It’s Alternatives, Your Decision

When should you use agile discovery, product discovery, design thinking (problem solving), or problem analysis? When are they the same? What is their differences and when will it matter? When is it best to use just one process? When is it best to combine something from each? Learn about these techniques and processes and expand your career. We can help you.

SITUATION | ?Process Mapping, It’s Alternatives, Your Decision

When should you consider using user story mapping, customer journey maps, group whiteboard brainstorm mapping, or process mapping? When is one approach superior and when should you combine something from these four and more processes? Which way may be best for a team? Which promotes collaboration and communication in the ways you need? When can you do it on your own? Learn about these techniques and processes and they work better with an understanding of the business analysis principles and concepts that help the whole team. We can help.

Business Analysis | IIBA Toronto & You

IIBA Toronto offers its Business Analysis Foundation Course again for winter spring 2024. It has been rebuilt from the ground up to reflect and include what it takes to participate with business analysis in 2024 and beyond.

The Power Of Having A Business Analysis Competency

The need for a dedicated understanding of business analysis is more real today than it ever has been. Quality identified trainers, coaches, learning entities, and the IIBA Toronto Business Analysis Foundation Course, all mentioned above, each recognizes that a competent business analysis practitioner or practice is an essential ingredient in all manners of product, project, agile, or lean.

• The IIBA Toronto Business Analysis Foundation Course provides answers and offers guidance for the business analyst in 2024.
• This course includes a special module on communication and collaboration which is essential in all methods today.
• This course also includes a special module on business relationship management, a growing must for business analysis practitioners in many initiatives

• Some delivery models such as Scrum and SAFe assume communication and collaboration as their expansion of their understanding of the business analysis role. Please note we are not using the title business analyst here.
• We will discuss the above further in other articles and postings.

Click here to look at the 9 modules that make up the IIBA Toronto Business Analysis Foundation Course.