Course Outline
Pre-Requisites
Business Analysis Essentials (BA10)
Lessons
Acquire the facilitation skills necessary to effectively manage requirements meetings and workshops. Business analysts have the responsibility to gather, analyze, and validate business and technical requirements for their projects, thus they need facilitation skills to manage requirements meetings and workshops.In this highly interactive two-day course, you'll gain the skills to be an effective facilitator - one who can help stakeholders define their needs and form quantifiable requirements. You'll learn tested techniques for meeting planning and preparation, brainstorming, analysis, and decision-making. You will have the opportunity to practice these techniques in a safe environment with a trained facilitator who will give you relevant, timely feedback. Advanced topics will also be covered, including virtual facilitation, conflict cause analysis. You will leave class with the confidence to facilitate a meeting from the planning stages, motivating group participation, building consensus, maintaining session focus, and evaluating results for lessons learned.
Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.
What You'll Learn
- Â The role of facilitation in business analysis
- Â Plan a facilitated meeting
- Â Create an agenda and risk analysis
- Â Use the appropriate facilitation techniques in a meeting
- Â Plan for and facilitate in a virtual meeting environment
- Â Use advanced brainstorming, analysis, and decision-making techniques
- Â Manage conflict in a facilitated meeting
- Systems Analysts
- Business Analysts
- Requirements Analysts
- Developers
- Software Engineers
- IT Project Managers
- Project Managers
- Project Analysts
- Project Leaders
- Senior Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Program Managers
- Testers
- QA specialists
1. Facilitation Basics
- Â What Facilitation Is
- Â The Role of the Facilitator
- Â To Facilitate or Not to Facilitate?
- Â Benefits of Facilitation
- Â Facilitation in Business Analysis
- Â Why Planning is Critical
- Â Defining the Purpose
- Â The Facilitated Meeting Planning Worksheet
- Â Key Characteristics of Participants
- Â Meeting Risks and Responses
- Â Building an Agenda
- Â Techniques for Facilitated Meetings
- Brainstorming
- Gap Analysis
- T-Charts (or Force Field Analysis)
- Model Types
- Impact/Effort Grid
- Multi-Voting
- Â Facilitation Actions
- Â Facilitation Behaviors
- Â Challenge of Teleconferences and Web-Conferences
- Â Meeting with Dispersed Participants
- Â Best Practices for Virtual Meetings
- Â Brainwriting (Anonymous Brainstorming)
- Â Root Cause Analysis
- Â Criteria-Based Grid
- Â How Various Models Can be Used with Groups
- Â Understanding Conflict
- Â Good vs. Bad Conflict
- Â Resolving Conflict between Participants
- Â Resolving Conflict between Participant and Facilitator
- Â Complete a Facilitation Meeting Plan
- Â Create Meeting Agenda
- Â Practice Facilitating Multiple Meetings
- Â Practice Root Cause Analysis
- Â Complete a Criteria-Based Grid
Cancellation Policy
We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted. Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.
Training Location
Online Classroom
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your city,
your province
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I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from the capturing of what was presented as it was 5-6 hours of watching a screen before getting to the actual labs. There has to be a better way to lay out this particular course. In my previous course, the lectures were broken up by labs which worked out fantastic and kept you engaged in the course. There were days when in order to actually complete the labs, would go over the 9PM day end time frame. Was able to get the primary labs done, but if you want to get all the content completed, you cannot complete it in the window of this course, you will need to come back on your own time.