Spring Study Group Session 3 - Chapter 7 Solution Assessment & Validation

By request from members, IIBA Houston will present a Study Group on BABOK 2.0. If you are serious about pursuing your CBAP� and want to stay accountable, or if you are curious to find out what its all about, come check out the BABOK� Fast Track Study Group.

Sessions are free for paid members of IIBA Houston. They are $10 each session for non-members or $75 for all 8 Sessions.

The topic for this session is Chapter 7: Solution Assessment & Validation

The Solution Assessment and Validation Knowledge Area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate their successful implementation. These activities may be performed to assess and validate business processes, organizational structures, outsourcing agreements, software applications, and any other component of the solution. Business analysis plays a vital role in ensuring that the process of reviewing, selecting, and designing the solution is done in a way that maximizes value delivered to stakeholders. The business analyst knows the business environment and can assess how each proposed solution would affect that environment. The business analyst is responsible for ensuring that stakeholders fully understand the solution requirements and that implementation decisions are aligned with the relevant requirements.

We'll meet every Wednesday for 8 weeks and cover the ENTIRE BABOK (version 2).

Mar 16 - Chapter 1 Introduction & Chapter 5 Enterprise Analysis

Mar 23 - Chapter 6 Requirements Analysis

Mar 30 - Chapter 7 Solution Assessment & Validation

Apr 6 - Chapter 2 Planning & Monitoring

Apr 13 - Chapter 4 Requirements Management & Communication

Apr 20 - Chapter 8 Underlying Competencies & Chapter 9 Techniques - part 1

Apr 27 - Chapter 9 Techniques - part 2

May 4 - Chapter 3 Elicitation and Exam tools

During these sessions, a facilitator will lead a discussion of each knowledge area, helping you understand the goal of specific business analysis activities, key tasks involved, relationships of various artifacts and deliverables. It's a great way to learn more about BA tasks, but it's especially geared to those studying for the CBAP exam. However, you will need to read the chapters before each week's session. The sessions are a great place to ask questions and dig deeper, but it works best when everyone is familiar with the material. We know it's a lot to cover in 8 weeks, but this Fast Track format has been most successful for us - and we've held sessions for about 3 years and a lot of Houston Chapter members have recieved thier CBAPcertification after taking this course.

We'll also cover tips for the application process and lots of tools and techniques to employ during the test. We have several CBAPs that will join our sessions to answer questions about the test and the certification process.

We'll send out more information to registrants the week before sessions start. If you would like to attend, but the location doesn't work - let us know. We are open to alternate locations, based on where the majority of attendees are coming from. Contact us at Education@houston.iiba.org for more information.