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Beginner's Guide to Business Analysis

by Casey Ayers

Explore the role of business analysts in project environments, learn what effective business analysis can accomplish, and discover how to effectively identify and assess needs to solve problems and take advantage of opportunities.

What you'll learn

Business analysis is for everyone. Whether you’re identifying new opportunities, investigating troublesome problems, or want to help your team continuously improve, business analysis techniques and concepts can be immensely helpful. In this course, Beginner's Guide to Business Analysis, you will learn how to think like a business analyst. First, you will see how to identify problems and opportunities, tailor solutions, and harness the combined wisdom of those around you to achieve exciting results. Then, you will explore how to enhance business analysis capabilities throughout your organization. Finally, you will learn how to promote the mindset and practices dynamic teams need to meet today’s challenges. By the end of this course, you’ll know what effective business analysis looks like, how to adopt useful principles for your work, and how adopting a business analysis mindset can greatly enhance the value you can create.

About the author

Casey is an entrepreneurial leader with experience managing projects, analyzing challenges, and designing solutions in healthcare, mobile, digital media, online learning, and more. His Pluralsight courses have helped nearly 1,000,000 professionals gain the skills they need to tackle new challenges and earn globally-recognized certifications, including PMP, CBAP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, CompTIA Project+, ICAgile, and more.

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