Business Analyst Training in Bangalore

Introduction to Business Analysis

• Introduction to Projects
• Relationship between Operations and Projects
• Who is a Project Manager?
• What is Business Analysis?
• Who is a BA? BA Roles and Responsibilities
• Competencies of a Business Analyst
• Relationship between a BA and PM
• Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
• Career Path for a Business Analyst
• What’s the goal? What is being analyzed?
• Current Trends in Business Analysis

The Practice of Business Analysis

• Differentiating Business Analysis and other Analyst’s roles
• Customer Needs & IT Needs
• The Skill Set Of a BA
• The BA’s Core Knowledge Set
• What the BA does not do!
• Dark side of Business Analysis
• Organization Structure and Reporting Relationships
• Tailoring the business analyst role for different projects

Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC)

• What is SDLC?
• Various stages of SDLC
• SDLC Methodologies
• Waterfall Model
• Iterative and Incremental approach

Software Development Methodologies

• What is an SW Development Methodology?
• Why Software Methodologies?
• Incremental and Iterative Approach
• Water Fall Methodology
• Prototype Methodology
• Spiral Methodology
• Agile Methodology
• Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Diagnosing the Business Environment’s Enterprise Analysis

• SWOT Analysis
• Feasibility Study & Analysis
• Problem Statement & Goal Statement
• Business Case
• Project Scope Statement & Vision Document
• AS IS (current state) and TO BE (future state) Modeling
• Root Cause Analysis of Fish Bone Diagram

Landscape of Requirements

• Requirements, Features And Constraints
• Types Of Requirements : Functional & Non-functional
• User and System Requirements
• Requirements Source, Audience And Approval

Stakeholder Analysis & Management

• Who are Stakeholders?
• Stakeholders, Stakeholder categories and Profiles
• Internal & External Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Roles & Responsibilities
• Conducting Stakeholder Analysis & Elicitation Plan

Requirements Elicitation

• Requirements Gathering
• Requirements Gathering Techniques
• Selecting the appropriate technique
• Challenges with Elicitation
• The Elicitation Cycle

Requirements Analysis

• Evaluating, Selecting and Prioritizing initiatives
• Employing Analysis techniques to assess alternatives
• Building a Model of the Solution Business Process & Data Process Flow
• Understanding & Developing Story BoardsDeveloping output mockups or prototypes
• Obtaining Stakeholder confirmation
• Constructing context, overview, and detail flow diagrams
• Identifying appropriate detail level data Requirements
• Decision Trees and Decision Tables

Requirements Development Plan

• Requirements Development Plan
• Selecting Requirements development templates Organizing the Facts
• Business Rules
• User Attributes
• Flowcharts

Use Case & Unified Modeling Language

• What is Use case?
• Basic Flow, Alternate Flows & Exception Flows
• How Use Case Diagrams Show Relationships
• Paths and Scenarios
• Use Case Diagrams
• Class Diagrams
• Sequence Diagrams
• Activity Diagrams
• Introduction to Rational Suite & MS Vision

Requirements Management

• Change Management
• An examination of why people resist change
• How Requirements become Un-Managed
• BA’s role in managing change
• Requirements Traceability & Change Control
• When Requirements Collide: Alternative Decision-Making Approaches
• How much time should be spent on Requirements
• Implementing Just enough Requirements

Requirements Communication

• Preparing and making the presentation
• Description of solution
• Establishing your objective
• Doing audience analysis
• Organizing your ideas
• Using visuals
• Rehearsing

Supporting Downstream Development

• Quality Assurance and Quality Control
• Business Analyst’s Role in Testing
• Use Case vs Test Case
• Responsibilities
• How can the solution be evaluated?
• Who should perform an assessment?
• Requirements Validation Techniques
• Unit Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing

Flow Modeling

• Business Process Flow
• Data Process Flow

Getting Ready for the Real World

• BA Resume Preparation
• Interview Questions & Preparation
• Domains Discussion

Project Work

• Student Assignment and Evaluation. The hands-on project module starts mid-way through the course. The student completes the project work by the end of the classes.