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Brainstorming Tools

Using the right tool in the right manner can dramatically improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your brainstorming sessions. In this course, Jamie Champagne introduces you to some of the most effective tools to facilitate brainstorming. Jamie presents some key goals and approaches for using digital brainstorming tools in-person, virtually, or in a hybrid environment. She goes over popular collaboration tools that are available in Microsoft Office; whiteboarding tools such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom; feedback tools such as Slido and Kahoots; and sticky note tools such as Lucidchart, Google Jamboards, Mural, and Miro. Plus, Jamie shows you how to utilize provided checklists to facilitate your brainstorming sessions using the tools that she covers in the course.

Business Analysis: Essential Facilitation and Workshop Skills

To effectively analyze business needs and deliver quality solutions that address these business needs, key facilitation skills are needed in various workshop settings—in virtual and in-person, as well in agile settings—to identify, verify and validate this important information. This course from business analyst Jamie Champagne covers how to facilitate sessions from one-on-one meetings to large workshops with common examples of activities business analysts or anyone doing business analysis work often perform.

Business Analysis: Essential Tools and Techniques!

If you do business analysis work and want to see not only what the key deliverables are but also how to deliver them, then this course is for you. This technology-agnostic course employs different technologies to show you how to set up and deliver key business analysis artifacts. Instructor Jamie Champagne highlights traceability as she through the setup and usage of a requirements traceability matrix. Jamie demonstrates how to model processes by showing you the natural evolution of the degree of detail that happens with business analysis work. Plus, she explains the power of context diagrams with both basic and detailed data flow diagrams to define and capture the requirements done in business analysis work.

Data-Driven Decision-Making for Business Professionals

Business professionals need to know how to use and understand data today to be successful tomorrow. Instructor Jamie Champagne covers the information, skills, and practices that you need to make smart, fast, and informed business decisions. Jamie explains why data skills are required today, how successful leadership choices depend on drawing insights from data, and how to distinguish the driving factors that require analysis skills. She shows how to identify the business problem or opportunity, break down the business problem into data requirements, and drive to prescriptive questions. Jamie also discusses how to identify current data, use data to draw conclusions, and use visuals and storytelling to share data. Plus, Jamie steps through how to present data in response to business requests, identify data gaps, and leverage data to drive business decisions.

Data-Driven Decision-Making for the Real World

It doesn’t matter where you work—decision-making is a difficult but unavoidable fact of life. But what if it were easier? What if you could find a way to make smarter, faster, and more successful decisions? In this course, instructor Jamie Champagne shows you how to use data to drive better decision-making, inform long-term strategic planning, and deliver successful and sustainable outcomes in all areas of business.

How to Perform Business Analysis in a Virtual Environment

Come learn and see how to do analysis work in virtual environments! Jamie shows you how to do process modeling and brainstorming and prioritization in virtual environments! Get comfortable facilitating teams using your business analysis skills and techniques in virtual environments!

Lucidchart for Business Analysis

Lucidchart is a popular and accessible tool to those doing analysis work, but it has many useful capabilities beyond its most commonly-used functions. In this course, Jamie Champagne provides context and examples that can help analysts get the most value for their investment in this incredible tool. She first walks through process modeling and demonstrates operation support models. Next, data models are covered through contextual diagrams, defining data flows, and then building out data structures that support technical development. Jamie then highlights project management activities that help teams organize and track work using Lucidchart. Finally, learn how to facilitate strategic planning with a simple but structured framework using Lucidchart.

Mural for Business Analysis

Mural is a popular and easy-to-use tool that’s most often applied to online collaboration and analysis work, but it’s capable of much more. In this course, Jamie Champagne helps you understand your stakeholders through visual analysis using Mural. Jamie walks you through crafting personas and describing user journeys to help focus on customers. She shows you how to use Mural’s visual toolsets to perform common analysis activities, such as prioritization, risk analysis, and creating process models. Jamie puts the focus on delivering valued products by using Mural for product roadmaps, build releases, and story maps with visual clarity. Plus, she dives into how to use Mural to speed up and simplify your project work, including running great meetings, tracking tasks, prioritizing backlogs, and facilitating retrospectives. Finish this course with more tools in your tool box for successful analysis work using Mural!

Project Management in Zoho Projects

If you’re responsible for managing the activities of a project—any project—Zoho Projects was designed just for you. It gives you the power to define, customize, track, and manage project activities with its easy-to-use, built-in core features. Learn how to leverage Zoho Projects like a pro and create more effective and successful outcomes as a project manager.

Find out how to perform resource allocation, leverage resource utilization reporting, track and respond to risk and issue management problems, and use task management, automation, and project-specific templates to apply lessons learned for future project success.

Studying for the Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®)

Taking the Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®) exam is a big step, and a great move for your career. CBAP® certification proves that you have the knowledge and the experience to lead projects to success. Jamie Champagne has helped hundreds of professionals train for this exam, and she's prepared this online course to share her proven study tips and techniques with you. Review the certification requirements, including the 7,500 hours of hands-on experience required to sit for the exam. Then study the key objectives: the Business Analyst Core Concept Model™, the six knowledge areas, and essential business analysis techniques, as well as the vocabulary needed to work in the field. Jane also provides tips and practice worksheets to test your knowledge and prepare for exam day.

What Not to Do on Change Work

All too often, change work is unsuccessful, but that’s not because of a lack of effort or vision. Rather, what’s most important is how you understand the effects of certain changes so you can address them as you go. In this course, join instructor Jamie Champagne and take a deep dive into change work, its benefits, key challenges, and how to avoid making business-critical mistakes that can derail your teams, stakeholders, and projects.

Business Analysis: Planning & Ensuring Success

This course shows you how to approach planning and improving your business analysis activities by walking you through the tasks in the business analysis planning and monitoring knowledge area.

Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Certification Overview and Study Plan

This course will teach you the requirements and value of obtaining the IIBA®-CCA. Certifications are valuable career tools to help acknowledge your skills and capabilities as you continue to grow and develop in your career, especially in a world driven by technology and open to cybersecurity considerations at every turn. In this course, Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Certification Overview and Study Plan, you’ll learn all about the valuable CCA certification.

Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Cybersecurity Analysis Techniques

Analysis skills are critical to ensuring cybersecurity requirements are built as part of the solution and not an afterthought in both today and tomorrow’s technology solutions. In this course, Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®- CCA): Cybersecurity Analysis Techniques, you’ll learn key techniques to utilize when working with technology and needing to address cybersecurity requirements.

Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Cybersecurity Operational Components

Technology today faces ever-increasing cybersecurity risk and exposure that must be constantly monitored and maintained throughout its lifecycle. In this course, Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Cybersecurity Operational Components, you’ll learn what cybersecurity risks emerge in the daily operations in the context of the business.

Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Cybersecurity Risks and Controls

This course will teach you essential cybersecurity risks and control concepts required to build technological solutions that address cybersecurity needs. Fundamental cybersecurity knowledge requires analytical thinking to assess potential risks and take a critical eye to where your solutions may have vulnerability concerns. In this course, Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA ®-CCA) Cybersecurity Risks and Controls, you’ll learn essential cybersecurity risks and control concepts critical to performing effective cybersecurity analysis work.  success.

Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Data Security Concepts

Cybersecurity is one of the primary focuses of building successful technology solutions that every company needs to build into solutions and not let security be an afterthought. In this course Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA ®-CCA) Data Security Concepts, you’ll learn essential concepts critical to performing effective cybersecurity analysis work. 

Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA): Getting Started

Cybersecurity is one of the primary focuses of building successful technology solutions. Every employee needs to have an understanding of how to build it into solutions and not let it be an afterthought. In this course, Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®- CCA): Getting Started, you’ll learn what cybersecurity is and its value to business efforts.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of cybersecurity analysis topics needed to begin planning cybersecurity requirements in your technology projects and solutions.

Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®-CBDA): Applying to the Organization

Successful business data analytic work emerges when it is fully integrated throughout an organization. In this course, Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®-CBDA): Applying to the Organization, you’ll learn how to apply business data analytics principles at an organizational level. First, you’ll explore how to create business data analytics organizational, talent, and data strategies. Next, you’ll discover how to select techniques for guiding organizational-level business data analytics strategies. Finally, you’ll learn how to identify underlying competencies to build a business data analytics team. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to develop an organizational business data analytics strategy.

Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®-CBDA): The Domain Areas

To help you drive successful business decision-making in your organization, you need to be able to identify all the key tasks within the major elements of business data analytics work. This course walks you through the five business data analytics domains and the key tasks and techniques in each to drive successful business decision-making.

Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®-CBDA): Essential Data Analytics Concepts

Knowledge of data analytics techniques and approaches is key to being successful working with data. In this course, Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®-CBDA): Essential Data Analytics Concepts, you’ll learn the key vocabulary for data analytics work. First, you’ll explore key data concepts. Next, you’ll discover data analytics techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to analyze data for successful business data analytics engagements. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of data analytics concepts needed to be successful in your business data analytics work.

Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®-CBDA): Getting Started

Successful business decision-making requires that you understand the value of business data analytics and be able to define this key skill set. In this course, Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®- CBDA): Getting Started, you’ll learn what business data analytics is.

Intro to the Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA)

The Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®) is a valuable recognition of your business analysis skills. This course introduces you to the certification, its requirements, and how to best prepare to earn this valuable certification.

Intro to the Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®) Certification

The Certified Business Analysis Professional® (CBAP®) certification is today’s top certification in business analysis. This course will introduce you to the certification, its requirements, and how to best prepare to earn this valuable certification.

Introduction to the BABOK Guide and Business Analysis Key Terms

This course will show you how to use the BABOK® guide by introducing you to the key vocabulary needed for successful business analysis work and your business analysis certification exams.

Introduction to the Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA™) Certification

The Entry Certificate in Business Analysis™ (ECBA™) is one of the fastest growing certifications in business analysis to help advance your career. This course will introduce you to the certification, its requirements, and how to study for the exam.

Managing Changing Requirements

This course, Managing Changing Requirements, will increase your requirements analysis skills by learning how to prioritize, approve, analyze and present changes and maintain your requirements.

Modeling Requirements

The power of visually modeling requirements to get consensus, buy-in, and to help validate and verify requirements is a key skill any analyst should know to deliver quality requirements for successful solutions. In this course, Modeling Requirements, you will learn how to model and visually represent your requirements to help you with any change effort.

The Value of Capturing Requirements

This course will help you identify the value of requirements and what to consider in a requirements package by understanding the change approach, formality and audiences for your change effort.

Tracing and Leveraging Requirements

This course, Tracing and Leveraging Requirements, improves your requirements analysis capabilities by helping you identify traceability and acceptance criteria for validating your requirements through to successful solutions.

Certified Agile Professional – Business Analyst (CAPe™-BA)

Earners of this certification have demonstrated a deep understanding of the Agile analysis mindset and most common Agile analysis techniques. The examination for this certification is based upon the Agile Extensions to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) Guide, industry best practices, and the CAPe-BA training materials. As a certificate holder, current and prospective employers will recognize that earners have made a commitment to continuous learning and have dedicated time and energy to developing their craft as a business analyst or analysis professional.