To ensure change initiatives generate value for organizations, it’s critical that business analysts be able to evaluate both present and potential solutions. In this course, Business Analysis Techniques: Evaluating Solutions, you’ll focus on the techniques related to fulfilling this important responsibility. First, you’ll learn how benchmarking and metrics set the stage of evaluation efforts. Then, you’ll examine how quantitative and qualitative measures can be harnessed to understand solution performance. After that, you’ll find out how traceability and accountability relate to solution development, and how sign-off from key stakeholders can be obtained. Finally, you’ll discover how a variety of other business analysis techniques might also be effectively leveraged in solution evaluation. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll be better equipped to judge whether a change initiative is successful, and be more ready to make the changes and revisions necessary to ensure your analysis work results in organizational success.
Author Name: Casey Ayers
Author Description:
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.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Creating the Context for Solution Evaluation
  37mins
• Assessing Financial and Qualitative Performance
  29mins
• Maintaining Traceability and Accountability in Solution Development
  18mins
• Gaining Sign-off on Initiative Success
  29mins
• Leveraging Additional Analysis Techniques to Evaluate Solutions
  64mins