Business Analysis for RPA v4.0

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Explain the business analyst’s role within the business process redesign and systems development lifecycles.
• Apply best practices, competencies, and approaches for conducting business analysis activities.
• Determine appropriate techniques to utilize across the strategy analysis, scope analysis, and requirements analysis & design definition phases.
• Use appropriate requirements models to support business analysis and deliverables.
• Plan business analysis activities for strategy analysis, scope analysis, and requirements analysis & design definition phases.
• Incorporate Business Analysis deliverables and models into a Process Definition Document (PDD)

This course is intended for industry professionals and students who want to be Business Analysts in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or develop BA-RPA skills to complement their work.
 

To understand and complete the course successfully, the student should have:
• an understanding of either
  • a business domain in which a Robotics Process Automation solution will be deployed (e.g. accounting, finance, healthcare, etc.)
OR
• Robotics Process Automation Platform capabilities and functionality
• It is not necessary to have prior work experience, although that would be beneficial

The 42-hour course is divided into 5 Modules: Course Outline

• Module 1: Foundations of Business Analysis

1. Why, What, When and Who of Business Analysis? 2. IIBA and BABOK 3.0 3. What is a Requirement? 4. Types of Requirements

• Module 2: Approaches to Elicitation and Stakeholder Engagement

1. Approaching Analysis, When and How 2. What is Elicitation? 3. Elicitation Processes and Techniques 4. Stakeholder Collaboration and Engagement

• Module 3: Strategy and Scope

1. Discovery Analysis 2. Business Requirements? 2.1. Business Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes 2.2. Problem & Opportunity Statement 2.2.1 Root Cause Analysis 3. Business Process Analysis (Current State) 4. Scope Modelling 4.1 Why & How to Model Scope? 5. Process Selection for Automation

• Module 4: RPA Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

1. Activities in Requirements Analysis and Design Definition 1.1 Techniques for Modelling Requirements and Design 2. Business process analysis in requirements (To-Be) 3. Solutions Requirements: Perspectives & Techniques

• Module 5: Requirements Delivery and the PDD

1. Populating the Process Definition Document 2. Managing Requirements Throughout this course, students are supplemented with a student workbook, Business Analysis Templates, and with a practical, experiential case study to support learning. Throughout the 42 hours of study, students will complete reflective activities, review exemplars, and apply the techniques learned throughout the theory section of the course. At the end of the course, the student will be provided with the opportunity to complete a Capstone Case Study project. The student will conduct Business Analysis activities and produce deliverables in alignment with the approaches and techniques delivered throughout the course. This Capstone Project will require that students progress through stages of Discovery, Strategy Analysis, Scope Analysis, and Requirements Analysis & Design Definition, with the goal of completing a comprehensive requirements package, along with a completed UiPath Process Definition Document Template.