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.