Course Content of Business Analyst Online Training

 

COURSE CONTENT

• Business Analyst Role
• Object Oriented Analysis &Design (OOAD)
• SDLC & UML
• Unified Process
• Business model
• Use case model
• Storyboarding/Mock-ups
• Elicitation Techniques
• Requirements documentation (BRD, SRS etc...)
• Requirements verification
• Systems thinking
• Negotiation skills
• Translation of requirements to design
• Data Modelling and Data Analysis

BA CONCEPTS

• Tools Training –Overview (MS Visio)
• Upon completion of the course, you will be able to (Learning Objective)
• Describe the responsibilities of the business analyst and the major deliverables for each major step in the business solutions life cycle
• Distinguish between the role of the business analyst and the project manager
• Distinguish between the role of the business analyst and the systems analyst
• List the critical skills needed to be a successful BA
• Define business problems and find their true cause
• Develop tactics for diffusing resistance to change
• Prepare a stakeholder analysis to identify and classify those who will influence and be affected by the solution
• Create and execute a Requirements Development plan
• Use modelling tools and techniques to elicit, document and validate a project’s scope and requirements highlights
• Use business analysis & project management tools
• Assist decision-makers in analyzing and prioritizing business needs
• Create a business case Communicate the results of a business case to stakeholder

INTRODUCTION & OVER VIEW ON BUSINESS ANALYST

• What is Business Analyst?
• A look at different viewpoints
• What is being analysed?
• What’s the goal?
• Current trends in business analysis
• Key concepts
• Definition
• Reconciled to common understanding within the organization
• Review topics to be covered
• Real time BA work Scenario’s

THE ROLE OF THE BUSINESS ANALYST

• The relationship of business analysis to project management
• Differentiating between business analysis and other “analyst” roles
• Customer Needs & IT Needs
• The Skill Set Of A BA
• The BA’s Core Knowledge Set

THE PRACTICE OF BUSINESS ANALYST

• BA Responsibilities
• Requirements Gathering

OVER VIEW OF SOFTWARE PROJECT & IT COMPANY

• What is software project
• What is software product
• Difference between Project & product
• Different project teams from IT company description
• Clients side project team member description
• How the project are coming to IT companies
• Introduction –Pre sales-post sales
• What is RFI, RFP and RFQ

OVER VIEW OF KICK OFF MEETING

• What is kick of meeting
• Minutes of meeting
• Role of BA in Kick of meeting
• Real document presentation of Kick of meeting, business proposal & project document

INTRODUCTION TO IIBA & BABOK

• What is the BABOK?
• What is Business Analysis?
• Key Concepts
• Knowledge Areas
• Domains knowledge Areas
• Techniques
• Underlying Competencies
• Other Sources of Business Analysis Information

OVER VIEW OF ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROJECT

• Customer, stake holder
• End user’s
• SME’S & TSME’S
• Project sponsor’s, Vendor’s
• It project team like Project manager, developer, test engineer, solution architect

SDLC METHODS

• SDLC phases
• Project plan Phase
• Analysis Phase
• Design Phase
• Coding-development Phase
• Testing Phase
• Deployment Phase

DIAGNOSING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT (ENTERPRISE ANALYST)

• Business problem solving
• Understanding the business environment
• Capturing business initiatives across the enterprise
• Diagnosing a business problem or opportunity (i.e.; business initiative)
• Definition of a problem
• Finding and verifying true causes
• Techniques to identify business problems and causes Workflow modelling
• Gap Analysis

REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION AND DOCUMENTATION

• Assessing stakeholder roles and responsibilities
• Identifying internal and external stakeholders
• Conducting stakeholder analysis
• Selecting requirements development templates
• Stake Holder Request Template

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS MODELS

• SDLC
• Water Fall Model
• Spiral Methodology
• Agile (more evolved, RAD session: reverse-engineer session)
• Incremental Model

SDLC

• What is requirement
• Requirement classification

1. Business case requirements
2. Stake holder requirements
3. Solution requirements

i. Functional requirements
ii.Non functional requirements

4. Transition requirements

• Moscow techniques
• Zach man frame work
• 3D frame work for requirement gathering
• 3D Model for requirement gathering

DOCUMENTATION PREPARATION

• BRD, FRD, SRS, DRD, AS-IS & TO BE, Use case , User stories
• Real time documentation preparation scenario’s
• Real time documentation assignment’s
• Difference BRD/FRD/SRS/DRD

ANALYST OF REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION

• Fact gathering methods
• Interviewing
• Observation
• JAD session
• Prototypes, wire frames, storey board ,Mock up, Blue prints
• Questionnaires
• GAP analysis
• As-is & to be document
• Research
• Organizing the facts
• Determining requirements
• Managing requirements
• Building a model of the solution
• Intro to Process modelling using DFDs
• Intro to data modelling –Information modelling

REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT WITH USE CASES

• Key Concepts, Use case Model
• Essentials elements of Use Cases:
• The writing process . . . (Dos and Don'ts)
• Analysing Use Case text to uncover specific system requirements
• Converting Use Case description sentences into well-formed requirement
• A style guide with suggested formats for different levels of Use Case
• List of time-saving Use Case writing tips
• A proven methodology for taking advantage of Use Cases
• Business modelling i.e. techniques of identifying business concepts and tasks, and introducing relevant parts of UML along the way/during Analysis phase.
• Activity Diagram

STRUCTURAL ANALYST

• What is structural analysis
• Data flow diagrams
• System flow charts
• HIPO charts
• Work flow’s

MODELING USING UML & OOAD (OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN)

• UML
• UML Defined
• UML History
• UML diagrams
• UML modelling mechanisms
• Reviews
• Object oriented analysis and design-UML diagrams
• Structural diagrams

1. Class, object, package, component, composite and deployment diagrams.

• Behavioural diagrams

1. Use case diagrams
2. Activity diagrams
3. State machine diagrams

• Interaction diagrams

1. Sequence diagrams
2. Communication diagrams
3. Timing diagrams
4. Over all interaction diagrams

• Concepts of OOPS(object oriented programming system)

USE CASE ANALYST OVERVIEW

• Use Case Analysis Overview
• Supplement Use case Description
• Find Classes from Use Case behaviour
• Distribute Use case behaviour to Classes
• Responsibilities of classes
• Describe attributes and associations
• Class Diagrams
  
• Sequence Diagram
  
• Collaboration Diagram

INTRODUCTION TO DATA MODELING, DATA ANALYST & TESTING

• Goals of Data Modelling, Logical & Physical Design (E-R Diagram)
• Introduction SQL, SQL queries.
• Goals of testing, functions performed during testing process, a Business Analyst approach to testing
• Testing methodologies – Black box and white box testing, Positive and Negative tests
• Testing (UAT)
• Reusable test plans, test procedures and Test Cases – template
• Derived test cases from use cases
• Identification of Test Scenarios, tracing test cases to test scenarios
• Traceability matrix
• Business validation and verification
• Analysis of the System results – Documenting unexpected behaviours
• User signoff – Process and fulfilling expectations

BASIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE

• Roles and responsibilities of PM
• Project management process
• Project management knowledge areas
• Project management tools
• PMP certification

PROJECTS

• Writing Use Cases, Business Rules, Supplemental Specifications in Requisite Pro, Understanding and using attributes
• Introduction to UML Business Modelling and UML
• Advantages to visual modelling, interface, views and diagrams
• Managing UML entities and relationships for the various UML diagrams
• Use Case, Activity and State Diagrams
• Sequence and Class Diagrams

 

 
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