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Then, develop a plan that includes determining and estimating the requirements activities a BA typically performs and how to control and manage changes to the deliverables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will also learn how to develop a high level test plan to verify and validate user requirements and achieve quality performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"earn-pdus\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Earn PDU\u2019s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Attendees of this program are entitled to 14 Continuing Development Units from the International Institute of Business Analysis upon completion.<\/li><li>Attendees of this program are entitled to 14 Professional Development Units from the Project Management Institute upon completion.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"program-content\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enterprise Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Evaluate proposed business initiatives for viability and organizational advantage<\/li><li>Tips for a successful business case<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Overview of Concepts and Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What is a project?<\/li><li>Examples of projects\/BA involvement in project selection<\/li><li>Why projects fail<\/li><li>The project triple constraint and the BA<\/li><li>Project relationships between the project manager and the business analyst<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Planning and the BA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Understand the importance of the planning and managing aspect in the role of the BA<\/li><li>Understand team roles<\/li><li>Identify and analyze stakeholders<\/li><li>Determine product scope<\/li><li>Determine appropriate methodology<\/li><li>Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that is requirements driven, focusing on planning, testing and managing responsibilities<\/li><li>Select and estimate requirements activities in all phases of the project<\/li><li>Understand how project progress is monitored and controlled<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Risk and the BA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Risk management planning<\/li><li>Risk Identification<\/li><li>Qualitative risk analysis<\/li><li>Quantitative risk analysis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Validating and the BA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Examine the importance of testing and testing strategies<\/li><li>Develop a high level test plan<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Managing Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Identify, analyze, and manage requirements change<\/li><li>Identify the means to perform requirements traceability throughout the project<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_description_type":[],"class_list":["post-3340","cu_description","type-cu_description","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Planning, Validating and Managing User Requirements: Program Content - Executive Education<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/exec-ed\/description\/planning-validating-and-managing-user-requirements\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Planning, Validating and Managing User Requirements: Program Content - Executive Education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn how to evaluate projects based on project selection models. 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