Business Analyst Online Training
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ANALYST:
A Business Analyst (BA) is someone who analyzes the organization and design of Businesses, government departments, and non-profit organizations.
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
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Cloud Computing
- ISO / SEI-CMM Standards
- SOX Compliance
- Governance Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
Testing
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- Acceptance Testing
- Non-Functional Software Testing
- Black box testing
- White box testing
- Grey box testing
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