Business Analysis is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations.

It provides structure, governance and repeatability to help ensure that changes are understood, well-managed and add the greatest value to the organization. This can be accomplished by working with the people in an organization to understand the structure of that organization, and to identify the processes (the way work gets done) and the knowledge (information and data) used by those processes. Once these things are understood, a business analyst can identify opportunities for improving performance (such as increasing revenue or reducing cost), resolving issues that impede performance, developing new capabilities to support growth, or even planning an exit strategy (such as selling or closing a business).

Business Analysis is the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions. As business analysts, we play a key role in the successful delivery of change initiatives. We do this by understanding and defining the needs of our stakeholders, capturing and analyzing requirements, and supporting the communication and delivery of those requirements with relevant stakeholders. Business analysis is a critical practice for delivering value to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, non-profits, or governments.

Business Analysts may work across all levels of an organization. They may help define strategy and set objectives for an entire enterprise at the leadership level. They may also lead projects or initiatives to achieve strategic goals. They may assess current state business processes and make recommendations on how to improve them through technology or process improvement initiatives.

This course will teach you all about business analysis, as well as the fundamentals of data science.

The goal of this course is to provide you with a very solid understanding of business analysis, regardless of your prior knowledge level, so that you can improve businesses and be an asset to any team. You will learn about business analysis from scratch, including the foundation and different types. You will also learn about project management and statistics for business analysis and data science.

After taking this course, you'll know how to plan and monitor requirements, elicit requirements, analyze requirements, manage projects, use regression analysis, use hypothesis testing, understand how measures of central tendency work in statistical calculations, use sample data in statistical calculations, and much more!