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Business Analysis Certificate
Courses at-a-glance
Fall 2020 Courses
Respond to the growing demand in your company or business with the knowledge, competencies
and skills to become a Business Analyst. Enhance your ability to create solutions to business
problems.
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Classes to complete: 7 core
Number of hours: 7 classes X 14 hours = 98 hours
Achievement: Business Analysis Certificate
Course Fee: Each course is $625+GST
Each certificate course is being offered in a blended format using Zoom and
URCourses. You will be required to commit to a total of 14 hours of learning
including: pre-work, after class work with your group, and on your own.
Understand and apply a new level of knowledge for Business Analysis in your roles and
responsibilities as well as explore all of the steps in the Business Analysis Process using the
framework of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) Business Analysis Body of
Knowledge(BABOK®).
The Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Regina is an Endorsed Education
ProviderTM with the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®).
Each individual Seminar is worth 14 CDUs with IIBA®.
Grant Funding
Our non-credit certificate programs may qualify for Canada-Saskatchewan Job Grant
Funding and Re-Open Saskatchewan Training Subsidy (RSTS).
Courses
Register online using the link in the Date field.
Type
Name
Prerequisite Fundamentals of Business Analysis
Required Business Analysis: Planning and Monitoring
Required Strategy Analysis
Required Elicitation and Collaboration
Required
Required
Required
Requirements Life Cycle Management
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: Solution
Evaluation
Business Analysis Practicum (taken last)
Upcoming
Sep 2-4
Sep 23-25
Oct 6-8
Oct 21-23
Nov 9-10;
12
Nov 25-27
Dec 14-16
Course Descriptions
Fundamentals of Business Analysis
Prerequisite
In this introductory session you will learn what Business Analysis involves, what a Business
Analysis does, and what their role is in relation to other members of a project team. You will be
introduced to key Business Analysis concepts, knowledge areas, tasks, techniques and
competencies that will be expanded upon in later sessions. You will be given a high level
overview of the latest Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (Version 3) and how it compares
with the previous version. All of this and more will be facilitated through an effective
combination of lecture, discussion and group exercises.
Business Analysis: Planning and Monitoring
Required
Discover how to plan and monitor effective traditional and contemporary methodologies for
business needs and opportunities. Planning activities include developing a communication
strategy and planning to manage changes to requirements. Identify, analyze and build your
internal and external stakeholder relationships.
Strategy Analysis
Required
Strategic Analysis is all about exploring the dynamics of an organization and the challenges
Analysts will face in order to meet the demands of the business units while aligning with an
organization's overall goals and objectives. This course will delve into the understanding the
business wants and needs, transforming those requests into solutions, evaluation methods to
establish viability within the organization and steps to gain the required approvals to move the
solution forward.
Elicitation and Collaboration
Required
All business analysts require the ability to gather relevant information from stakeholders and
communicate that to operational or project teams. This course reviews leading practices in
managing stakeholders through elicitation, documentation and validation of requirements.
Emphasis is placed on the methods, techniques and best practices to managing collaboration
amongst diverse stakeholder groups.
Requirements Life Cycle Management
Required
Aligning, coordinating and implementing requirements are complex tasks that all business
analysts must master. This is the essence of requirements life cycle management. Students will
learn theory and practical techniques to ensure that business, stakeholder, and solution
requirements and designs are synchronized and that they are contained within the delivered
solution. This class will also contain practical exercises to develop student skills to promote
building organizational capacity to store, retrieve and leverage business analysis information on
future projects.
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition; Solution
Evaluation
Required
In this session you will review two final areas from the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
(Version 3) First, specifying and modeling requirements, defining requirement architecture,
designing options, and analyzing potential value and recommending solutions. Second,
measuring solution performance, analyzing performance measures, assessing solution and
enterprise limitations as well as recommending actions to increase solution value. All of this
and more will be facilitated through an effective combination of lecture, discussion and group
exercises.
Business Analyst Practicum (taken last)
Required
This final course takes students through the entire lifecycle of a business analyst case requiring
them to employ the knowledge gained from previous courses. Students will go through the
exercise of best practices, strategies, needs and opportunities, system requirements and the
implementation and communication of a business solution.
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