This online training introduces the first two modules of the Business Analyst Boot Camp described below. The full curriculum is under development.

For the full curriculum, UI ITSC offers an instructor-led version of this training, Business Analyst Boot Camp for UI Subject Matter Experts (Instructor-Lead Training).

This online training is designed to support states in planning UI IT Modernization projects by giving UI Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) hands-on experience with business analysis techniques for improving UI business processes; developing and documenting requirements; and working with development vendors. The training assists participants in understanding what a business requirement is and the challenges faced in defining requirements correctly. It includes practical approaches based on UI-specific successful practices of states for eliciting and managing requirements. Participants will be able to apply these methods to UI IT Modernization efforts within their state UI agencies.

After completing the Boot Camp curriculum, participants will:

• Understand the business analysis process as it is applied throughout a UI IT modernization project.
• Learn, in their role as a business analyst, how to participate in the project development life cycle—supporting the established solution, vision, and scope of the new system while gathering, eliciting, analyzing and documenting requirements.
• Practice implementing use-case modelling and requirements management techniques to define and document requirements that meet their state’s needs.

The Audience: The Boot Camp is intended to serve several audiences with a variety of mandates. Primarily, it will provide business analysis basics and successful practices to UI SMEs. Those individuals, who perform business analysis in UI organizations, have titles that include business analyst, systems analyst, project manager, and various other IT support designations.  Those who supervise and/or work with business analysts, including administrators, directors, and managers will also benefit from participating in the Boot Camp or in a Boot Camp overview session, so they may understand the process their UI staff must step through in designing UI software applications.