The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) is the highest level of certification offered by the IIBA® for experienced business analysts. The CBAP® training program by Multimatics is tailored for senior professionals who wish to gain mastery in advanced business analysis techniques, strategic planning, and complex problem-solving. Participants will engage in in-depth exercises covering topics like business architecture, risk management, and change management, ensuring they are prepared to lead impactful projects and drive business success. Become a CBAP® certified expert to stand out as a leader in business analysis!
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®)
Target Audience
This program is suitable for:
- Senior business analysts with extensive experience in the field.
- Professionals working in business analysis, project management, or consulting roles who lead strategic initiatives.
- Individuals seeking leadership roles in business analysis.
Duration
The program is a 5-day intensive training class.
Method of Delivery
The program provided by Multimatics will be delivered through interactive presentation by professional instructor(s), group debriefs, individual and team exercises, behavior modelling and roleplays, one-to-one and group discussion, case studies, and projects.
Examination
Program Objectives
Program Modules
- Plan Business Analysis Approach
- Creates rules for selecting the business analysis approach
- Guides practice in determining the level of business analysis formality
- Creates rules for identifying business analysis activities
- Expert: Advanced knowledge of timing of business analysis work
- Advanced knowledge of assessing complexity, size, and risk factors
- Guides practice in gaining stakeholder understanding and agreement
- Plan Stakeholder Engagement
- Guides practice in performing stakeholder analysis
- Advanced knowledge of defining the required level of stakeholder collaboration
- Advanced knowledge in identifying appropriate stakeholder communication needs
- Plan Business Analysis Governance
- Advanced knowledge in identifying an effective decision-making process
- Guides practice in developing an effective change control processes
- Guides practice in planning an effective prioritization process
- Advanced knowledge of planning an effective approval process
- Plan Business Analysis Information Management
- Guides practice in determining how to organize business analysis information
- Guides practice in determining the appropriate level of abstraction
- Creates rules on planning the traceability approach
- Creates rules on planning for requirements reuse
- Guides practice in determining how to store and access business analysis information
- Creates rules for identifying attributes for requirements and design management
- Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
- Advanced knowledge of reporting on business analysis performance
- Advanced knowledge of identifying business analysis performance measures
- Guides practice in assessing business analysis performance measures
- Guides practice in recommending business analysis performance improvements
- Prepare for Elicitation
- Modifies rules for the elicitation scope
- Modifies rules for selecting appropriate elicitation techniques
- Modifies rules for setting up logistics for elicitation activities
- Modifies rules for preparing supporting elicitation materials
- Recommends action on stakeholder preparation for elicitation activities
- Conduct Elicitation
- Creates rules for guiding the elicitation activity
- Creates rules for capturing the outcomes of the elicitation activity
- Confirm Elicitation Results
- Advanced knowledge in comparing elicitation results against source information
- Advanced knowledge comparing elicitation results against other elicitation results
- Communicate Business Analysis Information
- Advanced knowledge in determining objectives and format of communication
- Guides practice in communicating the appropriate level of detail
- Manage Stakeholder Collaboration
- Advanced knowledge of gaining agreement for required stakeholder commitments
- Advanced knowledge of monitoring stakeholder engagement
- Advanced knowledge of collaborative stakeholder relationships
- Trace Requirements
- Creates rules for considering value and relationships while tracing requirements
- Creates rules for identifying the relationships to track to effectively manage traceability
- Creates rules for determining an appropriate traceability repository to be used
- Maintain Requirements
- Guides practice in maintaining requirement and design information
- Guides practice in managing attributes
- Guides practice in managing requirements for long-term reuse
- Prioritize Requirements
- Guides practice in determining the appropriate basis for prioritizing requirements
- Guides practice in guiding stakeholders through prioritization changes
- Advanced knowledge of prioritizing new information
- Assess Requirements Changes
- Advanced knowledge of assessing the formality of the assessment process
- Advanced knowledge of completing impact analysis activities
- Advanced knowledge of guiding impact resolution activities
- Approve Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of stakeholder roles and authority levels
- Guides practice in managing conflicts and resolving issues
- Advanced knowledge of using appropriate methods to gain consensus about key business analysis information
- Guides practice in tracking and communicating approval decisions
- Analyze Current State
- Guides practice in defining business needs
- Guides practice in understanding the organizational structure and culture
- Guides practice in understanding the organizational capabilities and processes
- Guides practice in understanding the technology and infrastructure utilized by the organization
- Guides practice in understanding organizational policies and business rules
- Guides practice in understanding the organization's business architecture
- Guides practice in understanding the organization's internal assets
- Guides practice in understanding external influencers
- Define Future State
- Guides practice in articulating business goals and objectives
- Guides practice in determining the solution scope
- Guides practice in identifying constraints
- Advanced knowledge in identifying potential changes to organizational structure and culture
- Advanced knowledge in identifying new capabilities and business processes
- Advanced knowledge in identifying new technology and infrastructure
- Guides practice in identifying new organizational policies and business rules
- Guides practice in ensuring business architecture is respected
- Advanced knowledge of assessing resource alignment for future state and transition to future state
- Guides practice in identifying assumptions related to the future state
- Guides practice in evaluating the potential value for the future state
- Assess Risks
- Advanced knowledge in identifying unknowns
- Advanced knowledge in identifying and managing constraints, assumptions and dependencies
- Advanced knowledge of quantifying the impact of risk factors
- Advanced knowledge of assessing stakeholder and organizational risk tolerances
- Advanced knowledge of recommending an effective course of action
- Define Change Strategy
- Advanced knowledge in identifying the appropriate solution scope
- Guides practice in performing gap analysis
- Guides practice in completing the enterprise readiness assessment
- Guides practice in developing an effective change strategy
- Guides practice in developing appropriate transition states and completing release plans
- Specify and Model Requirements
- Creates rules for modeling requirements and designs
- Creates rules for analyzing requirements and designs
- Creates rules for identifying information for requirements and designs
- Creates rules for developing the appropriate level of abstraction to meet various needs
- Verify Requirements
- Creates rules for applying the characteristics of requirements and designs quality
- Creates rules for performing verification activities throughout the work
- Creates rules for using appropriate checklists for quality control
- Validate Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of identifying assumptions in order to manage risks
- Creates rules for defining measurable evaluation criteria to assess the success of the change
- Guides practice in evaluating alignment with solution scope to support value delivery
- Define Requirements Architecture
- Advanced knowledge of using requirements viewpoints and views effectively
- Creates rules for leveraging templates to develop the solution architecture
- Guides practice in ensuring the set of requirements is complete
- Guides practice in ensuring requirements relate to each other by identifying requirements relationships
- Creates rules for defining the business analysis information architecture
- Define Design Options
Guides practice in identifying appropriate solution approaches
- Guides practice in identifying improvement opportunities
- Guides practice in allocating requirements to solution components and releases to best achieve change objectives
- Guides practice in developing design options aligned with the desired future state
- Analyze Potential Value and Recommend Solution
- Guides practice in identifying the expected benefits of a potential solution
- Guides practice in identifying the costs associated with a potential solution
- Guides practice in determining the value of a solution to key stakeholders
- Guides practice in assessing design options and recommending the appropriate solution
- Measure Solution Performance
- Creates rules for identifying appropriate measures for assessing solution performance
- Guides practice in validating selected performance measures with key stakeholders
- Guides practice in collecting appropriate performance measures to assess solution performance
- Analyze Performance Measures
- Guides practice in examining collected performance measures to assess solution performance
- Guides practice in highlighting identified risks
- Guides practice in identifying relevant trends
- Guides practice in testing and analyzing performance measures to ensure accuracy
- Guides practice in identifying the root cause of performance variances and recommending actions
- Assess Solution Limitations
- Guides practice in identifying internal solution component dependencies
- Guides practice in performing problem analysis to identify the source of solution limitations
- Guides practice in performing impact assessment activities to quantify factors that affect solution performance
- Assess Enterprise Limitations
- Guides practice in assessing enterprise culture
- Guides practice in completing stakeholder impact analysis
- Guides practice in assessing how a solution impacts the organizational structure
- Guides practice in performing operational assessment
- Recommend Actions to Increase Solution Value
- Guides practice in ensuring appropriate solution performance measures are being used
- Guides practice in providing substantiated recommendations
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