Course description
Estimating for Business Analysts: In-House Training
A business analyst does not have authority to estimate the project and will not be held responsible for the project staying within the proposed budget; however, the business analyst does participate in various planning exercises with the project team. Many times the business analyst is on his or her own, required to provide estimates of how long it will take to perform their tasks. This course acquaints you with the basics of estimating from the point of view of the business analyst, emphasizing time estimates for the work. It also covers some of the product cost estimates that a business analyst may have to provide when the business is performing a cost/benefit analysis for the project.
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What you will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
- Translate business needs and requirements into estimates
- Estimate durations using a variety of techniques
- Negotiate differences in estimates
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- Introductions
- Course structure
- Course goals and objectives
Foundation Concepts
- The importance of estimating to a business analyst
- The good and bad of estimating
- The project context
- The meaning of good estimating
- Focuses of estimating
- Characteristics of a good estimate
Estimating the Time Requirements
- Applicable BABOK® Knowledge Areas
- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Elicitation and Collaboration
- Estimating the elicitation
- Information Gathering Plan
- Relative times for elicitation activities
- Planning and estimating the business analysis approach and activities
- Planning the business analysis activities
- Impact of process
Estimating the Product
- Estimating the value of the product
- Business analyst’s role
- Defining and determining value
- Function and use case points
- Agile estimating
- Planning Poker
- Other agile estimating techniques
Negotiating estimates
- Negotiation techniques
- Negotiation approaches
Summary
- What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environment?
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