Scoping is the process of defining the boundaries of a product, program, project, or iteration. Depending on your viewpoint and your involvement in the project, the components within the scope you’re analyzing may be slightly different; i.e. budget, time, resource, quality or features and functions; or stakeholders, interfaces, data flows, and processes. For purposes of this class, the viewpoint considered is from the business analysis perspective to identify the stakeholders (external agents or actors), interfaces, data flows, and high-level processes of concern in order to effectively determine the area for which analysis needs to be performed.
This course covers scoping techniques and best practices to ensure that you are eliciting and analyzing the right requirements based on the problem statement and that you have a framework for staying within the boundaries of the project. It also provides a technique to facilitate enough analysis so that requirements aren’t missed, but aren’t overdone either. The scope diagram provides a baseline and a primary reference for measuring all future project changes and project performance.
Participants also learn where AI may assist business analysis work, such as helping organize information, generate draft content, or review a work product. The emphasis is on using AI thoughtfully while building the judgment needed to evaluate and improve the results.
Interactive workshops allow students to practice the techniques as they learn. This course is taken as part of our 4-day Essential Skills for Business Analysis course and supports the standards outlined in both the IIBA’s BABOK® and PMI’s PBA.
This course is designed for individuals of any discipline who are performing scoping activities; business analysts, project managers, business systems analysts, product managers, product owners, system architect, process engineers, requirements engineers, or any other project team member.
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