WE SPECIALIZE IN TRAINING AND PLACEMENT OF BUSINESS ANALYSTS
OUR AIM: YOUR CONFIDENCE IN B.A. INTERVIEWS AND ON-THE-JOB SUCCESS AS A BUSINESS ANALYST

 

Course Overview

The business analyst role has evolved from that of a business procedures analyst to that of a business liaison between the non-technical user community and the technical solution providers. This course provides proactive, introductory coverage of the knowledge and skills essential to business analysts today and the foreseeable future.

This boot camp-style course will help you to gain the foundational skills to perform the role of a business analyst (BA) in both waterfall and agile environments. You will learn how to plan business analysis activities; as well as the basics of eliciting, analyzing, modeling, and writing requirements. Learn how to verify and validate product requirements, gain approval, and manage the requirements through the life cycle of the project. Understand the BA role in the design, development, and testing phases of a project. Gain new perspectives through hands-on, interactive group activities led by subject matter experts. Enhance your experience through videos, discussions, and reflections. Get tools, templates, and samples to continue your learning and practice after class.

Hours & Delivery Method
36 hours of BA training, interview preparation & placement assistance
Two months intensive coaching for your Business Analysis Career
Delivery Method: Online & Classroom

Who should attend
• College Graduates
• New business analysts
• Experienced business analysts looking to update their skills and understanding of their role
• Experienced Software Tester/ IT Professional looking to update their skills and understanding of their role
• Project managers who incorporate business analysis roles in their projects
• Managers that have business analysts on their staff
• Individuals with a general understanding of database concepts and programming and systems development

Career changers should have either IT or business domain expertise in their chosen field before attending this course to gain the maximum benefit from this course.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Role and importance of the BA
• Plan BA requirements activities
• Describe the relation between projects and processes
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders, with an emphasis on interviews
• Analyze stated requirements, with an overview of modeling techniques
• Document requirements for different types of projects
• Verify and validate requirements
• Learn the communications processes and how they can impact project requirements
• Elements of requirements management and communication and the BA’s role in them
• Determine each participant’s communications style (BEST profile) and how that understanding can help in eliciting requirements
• Elements of solution verification and validation and possible BA roles
• Enterprise analysis: choosing appropriate projects
• Necessary competencies and best practices of BAs
• Waterfall, incremental, and agile lifecycles and how they change BA practices
• Gather and document user requirements using the following techniques
  Interviews
  * Collaborative sessions
  * Prototyping
  * Using the Work Breakdown Structure
  * Use case basics
  * Business process analysis
• Modeling the business
• Fundamentals of Process Modeling
• Requirements validation through Data Modeling
• Testing fundamentals and quality assurance

Course Outline

1 Overview
BA Responsibilities
Communications
Information distribution
Communications styles
Documentation strategy

2 Requirements Gathering
Levels of requirements on a project
Identifying needs vs. wants
Techniques for gathering requirements
Interviewing
Prototyping
Use Cases
Collaborative Workshops
Work Breakdown Structure
Business Process Analysis
Use Cases
Ranking requirements

3 Modeling
Business Process Analysis
Business Process Improvements (BPI)
Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
Data Modeling
Fundamentals
Entity Relationship Diagrams

4 Fundamentals of testing
Testing strategy
Ensure project quality and quality of the product
Test scripts

5 Templates
Software/Product Requirements Outline
Use Case Template
Test Plan Template

6 Practical Application Sessions
Determine your own Communication Style
Interview a project sponsor
Develop Use Cases and a Use Case Diagram
Gather requirements while developing a Work Breakdown Structure
Create a Business Process model
Design and facilitate a Requirements-Gathering session
Develop a high-level Requirements Document
Develop an Entity Relationship Diagram
Create a Project Test Plan