Adaptive ACE BA program

Adaptive ACE Business Analyst ProgramMakes your BAs Champion BAs.

As a commitment to your success, 10% of our fees are payable after the initiative achieves it’s goals in a quantifiable manner.

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1 Why ACE BA program?

Our approach

Program structure

Our USPs

About Adaptive Processes

2006-2016 © Adaptive Processes Requirements excellence!

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If your organization does not suffer from following few problem, then you need not

read further.


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Frequent requirements changes


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Missed requirements


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Unhappy stakeholders


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Failed systems and projects


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If you have problem with any of the aspects, Adaptive can help you to improve your

business analysis capabilities.


Why improve BA and consulting competency? Projects successes are strongly dependent

on BA and RA capabilities.

Competent and Certified BAs help in winning new projects.

Better billing rate for the organization.

Clients expect beyond project delivery.

Career progression for employees.

2006-2016 © Adaptive Processes Requirements excellence! 10

Critical success factors

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Quantifiable objectives

World-class facilitator

Proven method

Focus on BA process, tools and behavior

High quality courseware

Periodic assessments

Continual improvementBA


3 essential competencies for BAs

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BA process skillsNeeds analysis, Elicitation, Documentation, Requirements analysis, Validation

BA tools skillsProcess modeling, Use case modeling, Class modeling, State modeling

BA behavioral skillsCommunication, Stakeholder management, Negotiation, Presentation, Facilitation


Steps in BA and consulting competency

Requirements analyst2 to 5 years experience

Enterprise analyst5 to 8 years experience

Business consultant8 to 15 yearsCertified Professional

in Requirements Engineering(CPRE®) from IREB, Germany

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) from IIBA, Canada

Certified Business Consultant (CBC) from Adaptive, India

Suggested approachGOAL

Initiate and PlanWk 1 & 2

PrepareWk 3 and 4

ExecuteWk 5 onwards

MeasureWk 8

ImproveWk 8 onwards


3 pronged approach

Reviews

Practice sessions and assessments

Knowledge inputs

12 hours of stakeholder reviews

16 hours of elearning

72 hours instructor support for practice of conceptsCompetency assessment system

Module 24 Hours ILT

• Elicitation• Documentation

in natural language

• Documentation using models

• Requirements analysis

Program curricula – Requirements analyst

Module 34 Hours ILT


Module 14 Hours ILT

• Introductions• RA process• RA

competencies• System context

• Unified modeling language

Module 44 Hours ILT

Module 64 Hours ILT

• CPRE practice test

• Program closure

Program curricula – Requirements analyst


Module 54 Hours ILT

• Requirements validation

• Requirements management

Module 84 Hours ILT

• Elicitation• Practice session

• Enterprise analysis

Program curricula – Enterprise analyst

Module 94 Hours ILT


Module 74 Hours ILT

• Program intro• CBAP exam

inputs• Planning and

monitoring

• Practice session

Module 104 Hours ILT


• Solution assessment


Program curricula – Enterprise analyst



• Requirements management



• Understanding strategy

• Understanding business problems and opportunities

• Techniques for consulting

Program curricula – Business consulting




• Participant and trainer intro

• Roles and responsibilities for a consulting

• Essential behavioral skills

• Stakeholder management

• Process improvement tools and techniques

• Intro to Lean and six sigma


• Initiating a project

• Exercise on initiation

• Planning• Exercise on

planning

Program curricula – Business consulting



• Execution and monitoring

• Exercise on executing and monitoring

• Closure• Exercise on

closure


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Why Adaptive?• 200+ years of

consulting experience.

• Structured skill enhancement for employees.

• Case study and exercise driven

• Best in industry coursewares.

• Highly experienced faculty with real international consulting experiences .

• Structured skill assessment system.

• Best value for money.


eLearning – Requirements analyst


eLearning – Business analyst


Competency assessment system


Hands on BA tools used during workshop• Star UML• BIZAGI Process modeler (BPM

Tool)• RED (Requirements

Management tool)• Data Loader (Functional

testing tool)


Video learning during the program• Creative thinking• Communication• Problem with software

specifications• Understanding use cases• Non-functional requirements• Stakeholder analysis• Software requirements


Templates covered in detail• Business requirements template• Business analysis plan • Business case template • Software requirements specifications

template• Product backlog• Requirements management plan• Matrix model


UML models covered in detail

• Use case diagram• Use case specifications• Activity diagram• Class diagram• State chart diagrams


Participant outputs• Participants develop following

outputs in the workshop– Business case– Business analysis plan– Requirements specifications– Process model– Prototype– Matrix model


Sample participant feedback• I would definitely recommend this training to

others in Accenture!! • Thanks for conducting the wonderful session

and sharing your excellent knowledge with us. • It is highly appreciated and acknowledged that

the training was very useful and purposeful. • Excellent workshop and a faculty with deep

knowledge.


Individualized participant feedback• Individualized feedback on each

participant on their areas of improvement– Body Language and energy– Confidence – Knowledge on process– Knowledge on domain – Communication – Elicitation skills – Modeling techniques


Experience in BA Adaptive Next best supplier

Outcome based payments YesExperience in BA Cumulative: 200+ years

Calendar years : 20+

Experience in banking domain Lloyds Bank, Society Generale, ING Vysya Bank

Partner organizations IIBA, Canada, IREB, Germany, VMEdu, USA, Open-RE, USA

Proposed trainers have hands-on business analysis experience

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Periodic BA workshops YesProvides guaranteed certification scheme for business analysts?

Adaptive provides guarantee scheme on CPRE. Terms and

conditions apply.

Adaptive vs. Competition


Experience in BA Adaptive Next best supplier

No. of organizations benefited 100+No. of BAs benefited 2000+

No. of CBAPs produced 50+Has eLearnings and Quiz Banks CBAP, CPRECan support on associated areas such as Agile and Scrum

Yes

Provides guaranteed certification scheme for business analysts?

Yes

Support in BA staffing Yes

BA COE setup expertise Yes

Adaptive vs. Competition


Intervention methodologyConceptual theoretical inputs

Focus on all 3 competency aspects

Case study based approach

In class and post class exercises

Role plays

Pre-class, In-class and Post course tests


Profile of program leader• 22+ years of professional experience in agile software development,

requirements analysis, business analysis, and GRC.• Consulted 50+ clients including AkzoNobel, PDO, Nordstrom, Toshiba,

Ness, iGate, Infosys etc.• Delivered more than 10 systems• Authored 8 books• Trained more than 3000 professionals on CBAP and Business Analysis

concepts• Consulted clients in 10 countries including USA, Germany, Spain, UK,

Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Thailand, Philippines and India.

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LN MishraPartner @ Adaptive• CBAP from IIBA• CPRE from IREB• Alumnus of IIM

Ahmedabad, • Certified Scrum Master• Scrum Product Owner

Certified (SPOC)


Books published by Adaptive

World’s 1st integrated BA and RE solutions organization.

200+ person-years consulting. 200+ Clients across the globe. More than 10 Fortune 500 clients. 200+ RE workshops completed in

India, US, Thailand, Philippines. 10+ International partners.

Recognitions

PartnersAbout us


Government of Bhutan

Partial list of our clients


Name : Adaptive Processes

Phone : 1-800-3070-2040

Email : [email protected]

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