The planning phase is critical to a project. In defining and validating business and functional requirements, the business analyst limits the number of changes to a project and shortens its life cycle, resulting in a faster completion. He also ensures tighter management of the costs in controlling the change requests.

Benefits to the Organization:

• Improve the cost, timeliness and quality of deliverables through more accurately articulated requirements
• Ensure the right people participate in a structured process of modelling the business requirements to provide a common, focused set of expectations for all project stakeholders
• Help provide opportunities for structured testing of strategies, plans, cases and alternatives to improve overall project deliverables
  

Benefits to the Individual:

• Increased overall professionalism as a business analyst and a direct contribution to the organization's success
• Acquire and demonstrate advanced business analysis and leadership skills, and open up career opportunities
• Showcase your proven skills and commitment to project and business success, and earn meaningful business credentials
  
  

Who Needs BA Training:

• Business analysts who need to formalize their implicit understanding of their role, accountabilities and activities
• Project managers who incorporate the business analysis role within their functional activities
• Business managers who work within a project environment and who interface with business analysts and project managers
• IT business analysts/IS business analysts and professionals who wish to gain an understanding of the business side of IT/IS projects