This is a 1 day, hands-on workshop that teaches planning and estimating techniques to business analysts.
Participants first discover how to properly identify project deliverables, and then determine the key
activities needed to produce those deliverables. After reviewing a number of estimating concepts and
techniques, students derive the level of effort and duration for each activity. The aim is for students to be
able to answer two key questions: What will it take to produce the deliverables? How long will it take?
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Audience:
BAs who need to be able to estimate the level of effort and duration of their project
deliverables; BAs who participate in the project planning and scheduling process
Prerequisites
Fast Start in Business Analysis.
Course duration:
1 day
Course outline:
1. Introduction and Fundamentals
- Programs and Projects
- PMI Basic Concepts
- The BA role in project planning
- Overview of Planning
2. Estimating Techniques
- The estimating road map
- Typical BA deliverables
- Identifying the activities to produce the
- deliverables
- Effort versus duration
- The estimating challenge
- Estimating techniques
3. Determining Level of Duration.
- Estimating duration from effort
- The Gantt Chart
4. Risk Management
- What is risk?
- What is risk Management?
- Assessing risks and incorporating them
- into the plan
