BUSINESS ANALYST – COURSE CONTENT

Overview of Business Analysis

·         What do you know about business analysis?

·         Who can be business analysts?

·         Roles & Responsibilities of a Business Analyst

·         Why you should be a business analyst?

·         Software Hall of shame

·         Prospects for a business analyst

·         What can be achieved?

·         Limitations of a business analyst

·         Constant Learning

·         Review the topics that will be covered

Overview of a company/corporate

·         What is a company

·         Different departments

·         Different roles / job types in these depts.

·         Tasks of these depts.

·         IT Dept & its relation with other depts.

·         Positioning of BA

Overview of a project

·         History & Definition of Project

·         Types of Projects

·         Dependencies of projects on other projects

Basic Project management principles review

·         Roles & responsibilities of PM

·         Triple Constraint

·         PMP Certification

What is Business Analysis

·         Define Business & Analysis

·         Role of a BA

·         Tasks BA may also do

·         Tasks BA may not do

General Phases of IT Project

·         Requirements

·         Design

·         Development

·         Testing

Types of Requirements

·         High Level Requirements

·         Low Level Requirements

·         Functional Requirements

·         Non-Functional Requirements / Supplementary Requirements

·         GUI Requirements

·         Data Requirements

Assignment/Case Study

·         Students will be provided with an Assignment / Case Study

SDLC Methodologies

·         Waterfall Methodology

·         Spiral Methodology

·         Agile Methodology

·         Extreme Programming

·         SCRUM

·         RUP

Documentation

·         BRD, FSD, FRD, SRS, Use Cases, Vision, BSAR, Process Flows, TRD, TSR, & Impact Assessment

Tools

·         Rational RequisitPro

·         MS-Visio

Use Cases & Unified Modeling Language

·         Structure Diagrams

·         Class, Component, Composite Structure, Deployment, Object & Package Diagrams

·         Behavior Diagrams

·         Activity, State Machine, & Use Case Diagrams

·         Interaction Diagrams

·         Communication, Interaction Overview, Sequence, & Timing Diagram

Facilitative Leadership

·         Meeting Facilitation

·         JAD, RAD, Review Meetings

·         Communication

·         Other skills

·         Preparing Status Reports & Meeting Minutes

·         Making a conference call, Using Outlook, Net Meeting

BA Related Concepts

·         Requirements Traceability Matrix

·         Change Request Management

·         Configuration Management

·         Gap Analysis

·         Process Re-engineering / Process Re-modeling

·         Cost benefit analysis

·         Version Controlling

BA Supporting Concepts

·         Statement of Work

·         Request for Proposal

·         Service Level Agreement

·         Client Server Architecture

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