Business Analyst/Information Technology Consultant
General
- Graduate
- 75 learners; teams of 5
- 240 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 10/14 project matches
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Any
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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June 11, 2020Experience start
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August 15, 2020Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Summary:
Information Systems Business Analysis Program
The rapid growth in the deployment of and enhancements to information technology solutions in business settings over the past 10 years has thrust the Business Analyst/Information Technology (IT) Consultant into an increasingly prominent role throughout many sectors, including government, finance, healthcare and telecommunications. A crucial role in the software/system development life cycle, the Business Analyst gathers business requirements from various areas in the organization, and translates them into functional system design specifications that can be successfully executed by IT development teams. The role of the Business Analyst or Information Technology Consultant is often critical to increasing project success rates.
- Learner skills
- Data visualization, Consulting, Software/system development, Business analytics, Data analysis
- Deliverables
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To be Determined with the industry partner
Project Examples
Many organization face the challenges of developing information into knowledge, and then converting that intelligence into actionable decisions. Organizations demand the interdisciplinary skills of professionals that can find insights through data, and are capable of telling stories about data that can assist decision makers across various business divisions.
Business and Systems Analysis students focus on transforming business needs into functional logic so that software or digital products can be developed, configured, and implemented. More and more, we see students applying these skills to support domains/technologies such as Digital Product Management, Analytics, Robotics Process Automation, etc.
Your company can be part of a project by accepting to assign a task to a multidisciplinary team of students for a term of 14 weeks.
Students will employ the following tools, resources and skills as part of the completion of their industry project:
- Apply the best practices, tools, and techniques for conducting business analysis activities.
- Determine the appropriate techniques to utilize for the type of requirements being elicited and business analysis activities being performed.
- Explain concepts of the lifecycles for business process redesign and systems development and the business analyst’s role within the lifecycle.
- Plan business analysis activities to determine the appropriate deliverables for a development project.
- Use requirements models to prepare business analysis deliverables.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Provide a 1 page proposal brief that outlines the project background and proposed scope. The brief should include how sponsors would like to see student engagement, what processes or approaches they use to create new artifacts, functions, or modules, and how students can optimally support their vision.
Providing any internal data sources or access to data sources at the commencement of the project.
Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.