Course Content

Introduction and Fundamentals
• Business Analyst – Who, What, Why?
• BA – qualities, skills, roles, responsibilities
• BA – Fundamentals
• CMMI Overview
• IIBA, BABOK, CBAP, CCBA Overview
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Methodologies – Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, RUP, Iterative, Incremental, Lean etc.
Enterprise Analysis
• Product vs Service
• Client Software – why, how, when, who, where
• Business Architecture
• Feasibility Studies
• Project Scope
• Business Case
Requirement Process, Planning and Management
• Understanding IT project hierarchy
• Project Charter
• Requirements Process
• RACI Matrix
• Requirements Planning
• Work Efforts & Estimations
• Managing Requirements
• BA's responsibilities
• BA's plan to feed into Project Plan
Requirements
• What are requirements?
• Characteristics of Requirements
• Types of Requirements
• Business Requirements
• User Requirements
• System Requirements
• Functional Requirements
• Non-Functional Requirements
• Implementation Requirements
• UI Requirements
Requirements Elicitation
• Principles, Constraints, Techniques
• Data Analysis
• Creating Models, Scenarios
• Context Diagrams
• Surveys
• Questionnaire
• Interviewing
• Focus Group Interviews
• Brainstorming
• Reverse Engineering
• Prototyping
• Wire Frames
• JAD – Joint Application Development
Requirements Analysis
• Classifying Requirements
• Prioritizing Requirements
• Architectural Design
• Requirements Allocation
• Requirements Validation
• Requirements Pre-Review and Review
• Requirements Walkthrough
• Sign Off
Requirements Documentation
• BRS, BRD, URS, URD, FRS, FSD, NFR, IR, UIR, SRS
• Writing Functional Specifications Document
• Rules, problems, use of terms, structure
• Structure and Grammar, banned words
UML
• Overview of UML2.x
• Object-Oriented Approach
• Working with use case diagrams, activity diagrams
• Knowledge on class, object, state, sequence, collaboration, component, and deployment diagrams
• Working with UML tools
• Working with UI tools
Requirements Management
• RTM - Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Requirements Change Management
• Requirements Risk Management
• Impact Analysis
• Gap Analysis
Miscellaneous
• Versioning
• Repositories
• Kick-off Meeting
• Minutes of Meeting
• Weekly Status Reports
Validation
• General Idea on how Testing Team works
• Terminology used by Testing Team
• QA, QC, Software Testing
• Testing Strategy, Planning, Test Cases
• Types of Testing
• Testing Methods
• Testing Levels
UAT (User Acceptance Testing)Topic-wise study materialsTopic-wise Case StudiesStudent Portal
• Life-time free online reference library
Project Wok
• Complete life cycles implementation
Miscellaneous
• Anything that is not covered above and within the scope of BA job, we will take up each and every such topic and discuss in the class.
Tools
• All the tools a BA generally use - train on the main objective and how you to use so that learner can practice and get expert with them. At the same time get to know how to work any other similar tools available in the industry – both FREE & PAID versions.
Certification
• At the end of the course, a course completion certificate will be awarded on our company name - BA Training School.
Online Delivery Model
• All the courses are conducted by an expert instructor. These live instructor-led-sessions will be delivered through Internet via WebEx with VOIP services. Normally you will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers, but a headset is recommended. What you need to have to take this course is:
• Personal Computer with good Broadband Internet Connection to access Internet and have VOIP calls.
• Headset
• Microphone