The Technical Business Analyst
by Michael Krasowski
The technical business analyst role is positioned at the exciting juncture of business and technology. This course will teach you the skills, tools, and techniques to advance your capabilities to bridge the gap between the business and technology.
What you'll learn
Today's business and technology worlds rely heavily on the expertise of the technical business analyst. In this course, The Technical Business Analyst, you will gain the skills, approaches, and techniques to advance your essential technical business analysis capabilities. First, you will learn the definition of the technical business analyst and compare the role with other business analyst roles to ensure you know what makes the technical BA unique and distinctive; and what skills, technical and soft skills are expected of you in performing this role. Also, you will learn how to leverage the technical BA in how to work with IT and the business to help bridge organizational gaps and improve business efficiency.
Next, you will explore tools of the trade, or what I am calling the magnificent 7 skills areas, you should seek to master. These key skill areas will not only improve the way you work but will improve the way you think.
Finally, you will discover how the technical BA role is squarely and boldly positioned to support and participate in the agile and scrum world.
When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a foundational knowledge of how to improve, execute, and deliver on the expectations of a technical business analyst that will help you as you move forward to expanding your career opportunities.
About the author
Michael is a consultant and Pluralsight author. He recently traded the corporate world of Accenture back into his passion: IT professional development and authoring for Pluralsight. Previous to Accenture, Michael was General Manager of Fairway Technologies Inc. at the Orange County offices located in Irvine, California.
In 2017, Fairway Technologies acquired PDSA Inc., where Michael was Vice President/COO at PDSA, Inc. His responsibilities were to manage all projects and personnel while ensurin... moreg quality services are delivered on time and on budget to our valued clients. He has been instrumental in defining and executing a solid internal business and engineering process to ensure quality services, including using Agile and Scrum techniques, and excellent customer service.
Before joining PDSA Inc., Michael was the Director of Information Technology at the Long Beach division of Boeing. He was responsible for all aspects of computing – strategic planning, architecture, application lifecycle, asset management, and outsource management.
Michael also was an instructor at UCLA and University of California, Irvine's extension program. He has been a speaker at industry conferences, such as DevIntersection, Advisor’s Conference, DevConnections, Code Camp and Informant Conferences specializing in best practices of management, project management, leadership, communication, requirements gathering, estimation, sprint planning and Kanban.
Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s degree in Computer Science from UCLA, and has published several articles on computer technology.
Since 2013, Michael has been a Pluralsight instructor having developed and published 10 courses on project management, project requirements, project estimating, team management, leadership and communication, Demand and Work Management: A Practical Approach, Developing Effective Agile Sprint Plans, The Technical Business Analyst, and two courses on Kanban.