(WINTER 2010)

A required course in the Business Analyst Certificate Program. Course formerly titled: Requirements Gathering, Analysis, and Documentation.
This course focuses on the analysis and documentation of requirements and the role of the business analyst. Topics include: capturing requirements in a business requirements document; project vision and scope; identifying users; types of requirements; elicitation techniques (context diagram, concept of operations etc); structuring end user requirements; and documenting user requirements. See enrollment confirmation for login information.

Kim Fields, Ed.D., PMP, M.S., MBA, is an experienced Project Manager with over 20 years of IT experience in several industries, including 8 years experience as a Business Systems Analyst. She has recently been a Sr. Project Manager at Toyota Financial Services, where she worked on several multi-million dollar packaged application implementation projects. Dr. Fields has presented at conferences on requirements gathering and testing validation, and has taught for over 15 years. She is a member of PMI-OC.