Business Analyst Training Institutes in Bangalore

Business Analyst Course Content

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” 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

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 – 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 – 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.