Business Requirements Specialist - Technical Diploma
Business analysis is defined as “the practice of enabling change in an organizational context by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.” The Business Requirements Specialist (BRS) helps a business meet its goals and objectives, understands how work is being conducted, and through analysis, determines solutions to the issues. The BRS will work with stakeholders to conduct a feasibility study, focusing on requirements gathering and preparing a business case to justify change. At the beginning of the BRS career, they receive guidance from a Business Analyst ensuring complete and accurate work.
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Program Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition: $6,041, Books: $899, Supplies: $0
This program is fully eligible for financial aid.
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Requirements for Program Entry
- Apply at www.nwtc.edu/apply
- Submit high school, GED, or HSED transcripts and college transcripts (if applicable) to transcripts@nwtc.edu
- Tip! Our admission advisors will assist you through every step. Have questions? Connect with 冈本视频 Admissions at start@nwtc.edu or 920-498-5444.
Program Outcomes
- Demonstrate professional communication in a business environment.
- Organize and coordinate business analysis efforts throughout the organization.
- Conduct elicitation activities and confirm results.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business needs of strategical or tactical importance.
- Describe the requirements life cycle by establishing relationships between related requirements and designs, assessing, analyzing and gaining consensus on proposed changes.
- Specify and model requirements and designs; validate and verify information; and identify solutions meeting business needs.
- Assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution during strategy analysis.
- Apply appropriate technology skills.
Curriculum
Students following the study plan below will complete the Business Requirements Specialist Technical Diploma in the number of semesters shown.
First Semester
8 Week 1
8 Week 2
Second Semester
8 Week 1
8 Week 2
Third Semester
8 Week 1
8 Week 2
- Curriculum Note: The credit for 10-890-101, College 101 is an Institutional Requirement for graduation. Consequently, it is not part of the program requirements, but must be passed with a C or higher.
Course Descriptions
Students gain skills that lead to success in college, employment, and life. Students should take this course in their first semester. (Pre-requisite: None.)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringThis course provides an overview of the interconnectedness among careers within Information Technology. Learn how various fields within the broader industry each play an integral role and how a personal brand fits into preparing you for your career choice. (Corequisite: 10-890-101, College 101)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringCreating worksheets; enter data, make modifications, work with formulas and functions, create and enhance charts, manage data, transform data, conditional formatting, importing/exporting data, introduction to PivotTables and PivotCharts.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringA foundational understanding of business analysis, the key concepts within the skills needed, and the underlying competencies of a business analyst.
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringAll college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. This course may be used as the first of a two part sequence that ends with Quantitative Reasoning as the capstone general education math requirement. (Prerequisite: Next Gen Arith score greater/equal to 250 AND Rdg score greater/equal to 250; OR ACT Math score greater/equal to 15 AND ACT Reading score greater/equal to 16; OR prep courses-contact an academic advisor 920-498-5444).
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringInstruction in the multiple approaches used for performing business analysis, planning activities and ongoing communication, defining scopes, process improvements, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies, and the management process.
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringCovers working with data tools, advanced formatting techniques, advanced functions, evaluating formulas, collaboration tools, data validation, form controls, macros, working with templates, and collaborating with multiple Excel users. (Pre-req: 10-103-131, MS Excel Intro)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringDatabase uses, database terminology, analyzing information requirements, data models, database design phases, entity relationships, normalization processes, database management systems, database objects, development environments, creating tables, writing queries using SQL, testing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringStudents will learn to use BA software tools- Visio, SharePoint, OneNote, and advanced Excel involving scenarios and case studies. (Corequisite: 10-103-132, MS Excel Part 2)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringDefine stakeholders and use the stakeholder analysis to conduct elicitation activities accurately capturing information needs, documenting, and confirming results. Facilitates meetings and communication plan to support ongoing collaboration. (Prerequisite: 10-102-124, Planning and Monitoring)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringPrioritize and trace requirements, organize large amounts of data, understand and model requirements using various analysis techniques; verify, validate, and communicate the requirements. (Prerequisite: 10-102-126, Elicitation Techniques)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringWrite queries in a relational database: creating tables, setting primary/foreign keys, populating tables, manipulating data and reporting. Explore join types, stored procedures, functions, and database administration SQL statements. (Prerequisite: 10-152-125, Database Design)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringThe role of project management, developing a project proposal, demonstration of relevant software, working with project teams, sequencing tasks, charting progress, dealing with variations, budgets and resources, implementation, and assessment.
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringUnderstand the principles of solution requirements, traceability, measuring, and tracing quality of BA work, utilizing metrics, complying with organizational standards, and managing and supporting organizational change. (Prerequisite: 10-102-128, Requirements Life Cycle Management)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringIdentify and define business needs; understand business structure, strategy, and impact of work efforts; define the importance of vision, strategy, goals, and objectives; and define solution scope. Effectively facilitate change management. (Prerequisite: 10-102-130, Requirements Analysis & Design)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringIn this course, students will learn to organize, manage, and analyze very large data sets from various sources. Students will use software tools to present complex data in visually meaningful representations that can be communicated to business stakeholders. Upon completion, students will learn how to transform raw data into meaningful information that will be utilized for data-driven decision making. (Corequisite needed for Data Analytics program: 10-103-175, Power BI)
Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring