Automation Business Analysis - Concepts and Principles

Change is inevitable and so are the digital disruptions in every industry. What’s important from a business perspective is to align and adapt to such digital disruptions. In today’s competitive business market, the key to success is wise data-driven decisions, made based on reliable information. As part of your work responsibilities, you would have discovered, synthesized, and analyzed information collected from various sources at some point in time. This is Business Analysis. It is the set of tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and determine solutions to enterprise business problems. Like we said earlier, a plethora of digital disruptions are taking place in every industry. We are witnessing the growth of a digital-ready culture with automation at its helm. Automation generates productivity boosts at the process, workflow, and workforce levels, thereby shaping organizational growth and longevity. With organizations moving towards automation, it’s of paramount importance for a Business Analyst to be skilled with the science of automation to facilitate communication and collaboration with relevant stakeholders. As a strong proponent of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), UiPath brings in the Automation Business Analyst role, who will be responsible for analyzing business requirements, identifying possible automatable processes as well as potential pitfalls, along with assessing the impact of automation implementation. Through this course, you will learn techniques for ensuring project success at every step-from understanding the enterprise problems or goals, to designing solutions, devising strategies, and thereby, driving change. Along with the foundational business analysis skills, you will also learn how to incorporate business analysis deliverables and models into an RPA specific Process Definition Document (PDD), which is the representation of ‘as-is’ business processes that are chosen for automation. Throughout this course the terms ‘Robotic Process Automation’ (RPA) and ‘Automation’ have been used interchangeably. Aligned with IIBA's BABOK, this course will help you take the first step in your Business Analyst journey and will aid you with preparation for ECBA (Entry Certificate in Business Analysis).To complete this course, you will need IIBA’s BABOK Guide, which can be accessed at no additional cost.

• Course Overview
• Business analysis is a professional discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems. Through this course, you can acquire business analysis skills which span across six key knowledge areas, namely- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Lifecycle Management, Strategy Analysis, Requirements Analysis and Design Definition, and Solution Evaluation. All this through the perspective of Automation! This is an industry relevant course which will help you transition to practical and an authentic application of theory, techniques and tools, and also develop in-demand business analysis skills to support the development of RPA/Automation solutions.
• Introduction to Business Analysis
• This module aims to provide anyone entering the field of business analysis with a comprehensive foundation of the purpose, the need, and the value of the Business Analysis domain.  It will also introduce learners to requirements – the BAs primary output.
• Approaching Analysis, Elicitation, and Stakeholder Engagement
• This module provides learners with an understanding of the Business Analyst’s role in the context of the suggested approach to defining requirements and specifications to support a UiPath RPA initiative.
• Requirements Strategy & Scope Analysis
• The purpose of this module is to provide learners with practical, hands-on activities and case study materials to proceed through two key phases of Business Analysis work: Strategy Analysis, and Requirements Scope Definition.  Learners will create models to define Domain, Process, and Scope.
• Requirements Specifications
• This module provides learners with more hands-on, practical learning through case study-based activities and assignments, with the focus on defining the details of requirements specifications once a solution approach has been confirmed.
• Requirements Delivery and the Process Definition Document​
• This module demonstrates how learners will summarize their work, and package all information with the appropriate Requirements Templates and Tools.  It will also summarize best practice for managing requirements, traceability, and signing off with key stakeholders.  Finally, it will demonstrate how contents from Requirements Templates will be used to populate the PDD. After the completion of this course, you will earn the course certificate and have started your preparation to achieve IIBA’s Entry Certificate in Business Analysis™ (ECBA™).