Overview

This unit is an advanced unit which further develops the underlying knowledge, skills and other competencies that are critical to the effective business analyst. It contextualises business analysis, building complexity, uncertainty and interconnectedness into the modelling domain. The assignments will involve students interacting with real businesses to apply their knowledge and skills to resolve a real-world business problems.

Requisites

Concurrent prerequisites
INF80028 Business Process Management
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Apply an advanced and integrated knowledge of the principles, analytical methods and approaches of business analysis to resolve business problems in a contemporary organisational context
  • Critically evaluate proposed solutions to business problems to determine the best fit with business requirements using decision-making tools to meet the original stakeholder needs
  • Critically analyse implementation plans, and associated organisational impacts and report on post-implementation reviews to specialist and non-specialist audiences
  • Demonstrate critical thinking, problem solving, and ability to communicate effectively as a professional and function as an effective leader or member of a team

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Assignment 1Individual 30 - 40% 1,2 
Assignment 2Individual 20 - 40% 3 
ProjectGroup 30 - 40% 3,4 

Content

  • business requirements, stakeholder requirements, solution requirements (functional  & non-functional requirements), transition requirements
  • requirements management, prioritisation and communication
  • enterprise analysis, establishing business needs
  • development of business cases
  • advanced elicitation techniques
  • solution assessment and validation
  • evaluation of deployed solutions
  • on-going benefits planning and realisation
  • managing technology-driven change
  • analysing requirements in an agile development environment
  • implementation planning

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.