BUSINESSANALYSTCOURSE

CURRICULUM

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Highlights of our result-oriented curriculum and placement assistance includes but not limited to:

1.Instructor-led interactive Live / Online classes.

2. Role-based targeted courses.
3. Winning combination of theory classes and practical assignments.
4. Recording of class videos for review later.
5. Course material and ‘Blog’ access for assignments, assessments, and offline Q & A.
6. E-Books, articles, and papers for in- depth knowledge and understanding.
7. Practical real-time case studies.
8. 24 x 7, on-demand support.
9. Certificate of completion and guidance for Certification
10. Technical evaluation and mentoring
11. Assistance with structured resume preparation and submissions.
12. Mock calls interview preparation.

SECTION 1: Understanding Business analysis and Essentials of a Business analyst.

SECTION 2: Corporate and IT Project Structure.

SECTION 3: Strategic Planning Process.

SECTION 4: SDLC Life-cycle. SECTION 5: Software Development Methodologies.

SECTION 6: Understanding and Analyzing Business needs.

SECTION 7: Elicitation of Requirements SECTION 8: Requirements process – Business process modeling and documentation.

SECTION 9: Quality Assurance and software testing.

SECTION 10: SQL and Database management.

SECTION 11: Metrics.

THEDETAILED

COURSECURRICULUMISASBELOW :

SECTION 1: Understanding Business analysis and Essentials of a Business analyst.

1. Introduction and understanding of business analysis.
2. Effective ‘Business Analysis for desired results.
3. Need and role of a Business analyst in an IT project.
4. Essentials to be a successful business analyst.
5. Deliverable by a business analyst in an IT project.
6. Demand and the current market for the job profile of a ‘Business analyst.
7. Growth prospects.

SECTION 2: Corporate and IT Project Structure.

1. Types of Organizations.What is a company /client /stakeholder? Structure,
2. Decision making, and communication process of a company/client/stakeholder.
3. Structure of IT Project team.
4. Positioning of a Business analyst.

SECTION 3: Strategic Planning Process.

1. Understanding Strategic analysis.
2. Components of strategy analysis and strategic planning.
3. Identifying stakeholders and structure/resources of the IT project team.
4. To understand the business need and identify the scope of the process involved.
5. Identify goals and deliverable.
6. Business rule analysis.
7. Techniques and tools for analysis.
8. SWOT (Strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat).
9. PEST (Political, Economic, social, and Technological analysis).

SECTION 4: SDLC Lifecycle. Understanding all phases of the complete software development life cycle.

1. Eliciting and analyzing the requirement.
2. Planning.
3. Design architectural design for the software.
4. Development of the software.
5. Testing the deliverable as per the acceptance criteria.
6. Integration.
7. Deployment and Training.

SECTION 5: Software Development Methodologies.

1. Understanding the software project, Structure, and capabilities.
2. Important and common methodologies for software development.
3. Benefits and limitations of various methodologies.
4. Popular software development methodologies.
5. Iterative and agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban).
6. Role of a Business analyst in different methodologies.

SECTION 6: Understanding and Analyzing Business needs

1. Understand the scope.
2. Know the stakeholders.
3. Analyze current strategy, determining goals, future performance, Understanding internal & external environment for evaluation of the strategic alternatives.
4. Feasibility study.
5. Risk Assessment.

SECTION 7: Elicitation of Requirements

1. Types of business requirements.
2. Functional.
3. Non – functional.
4. Categories of business requirements.
5. Architectural requirements.
6. Structural requirements.
7. Performance requirements.
8. Design requirements.
9. Performance parameters.
10. Operational resources.
11. Environmental factors.
12. Requirement work plan.
13. Approach to requirement planning.
14. Analytical / Investigative approach
15. Iterative approach.
16. Identifying questions for requirement elicitation.
17. Elicitation techniques.
18. Identify the stakeholders to provide the relevant information.
19. Determine the focus groups.
20. Organize brainstorming sessions.
21. Joint Application Development (JAD) meetings.
22. One on one interviews.
23. Prototype.
24. Business rules.
25. Collaboration with different teams.
26. Document analysis

SECTION 8: Requirements process – Business process modeling and documentation

1. Understanding and modeling business process.
2. Model exist process, identify potential improvements and design to-be process.
3. Requirement prioritization.
4. Types of required documents and templates.
5. Use case document.
6. User story.
7. Use case Vs User story.
8. Business requirement document.
9. Functional requirement document.
10. Systems requirements document.
11. UML Diagrams and process flow diagrams.
12. Structure diagrams.
13. Behavior diagrams.
14. Interaction overview diagrams.
15. Wireframe diagrams.
16. Verify and validate requirement.

SECTION 9: Testing

1. Types of testing.
2. Manual.
3. Automation.
4. Testing tools.
5. Test Strategy.
6. Test case/test steps.
7. Testing methods.
8. Defect management life cycle.
9. Attributes.
10. Template.
11. Documentation.
12. Role of BA in the testing phase

SECTION 10: Metrics

1. Metric s – Purpose and usability.
2. Burn-down charts.
3. Understanding Burn-down charts – Activity.
4. Requirement traceability matrix – Purpose and significance

SECTION 11: SQL and Database management

1. SQL – Basics.
2. Data modeling – Entity, attributes, and relationships.
3. Basic concepts of Database management