Project Management

Advanced techniques create Superior Results!

This twelve-week course builds on the critical concepts that were learned in the Essentials course. You’ll strengthen skills previously developed and expand your knowledge of the techniques necessary to become an effective business analyst. You’ll explore advanced topics in quality management, testing, verification and validation. And you’ll use your new skills immediately, on the job!

Now supporting the latest version of BABOK® 2.0! Includes hundreds of newly added test prep questions to prepare you for the CBAP® certification.

Who Should Register?

What You’ll Study

• Quality Basics
• Verification and Validation Definitions
• How Quality Fits Into Requirements and Analysis
• Use Cases and Test Cases
• Verification and Validation Fundamentals
• Quality Risk Analysis

• Lifecycles and Estimation
• Develop Project Plans and Schedules for Requirements
• Scheduling Mistakes to Avoid
• Integrating (or not) the User Interface (UI) Design Into Requirements
• Dealing With Requirements Changes Throughout the Project
• Timeboxing as a Technique
  to Limit Scope and Increase Quality

• Basics of Black Box (Requirements-Based) Tests
• Test Oracles
• Equivalence Partitioning
• Boundary value Analysis
• Decision Tables

• Test Planning
• Reporting Test Results

• Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma
• What is Lean and Six Sigma?
• Lean Tools and the War on Waste
• Key Lean Foundation Concepts
• The Principles of 5S
• Error Proofing
• Changeover Reduction
• value Stream Mapping
• The DMAIC Model and Tollgate Reviews
• Six Sigma Tools and the War on Defects
• QFD, FMEA and SIPOC
• Flow Chart, Pareto Chart and Fishbone Diagram
• Concept of variation and Histograms
• New Quality Management Tools

• Quality Basics and Risk Analysis
• Verification and Validation Definitions
• How Quality Fits into Requirements and Analysis
• Use Cases and Test Cases
• Verification and Validation Fundamentals
• Develop Project Plans and Schedules for Requirements & Estimation
• Scheduling Mistakes to Avoid
• Integrating (or not) the User Interface (UI) Design into Requirements

Credit & Tuition