Course Content

1. Business Analysis Fundamentals

• What is Business Analysis?
• Who is a Business Analyst?
• Importance of Business Analyst Use Cases
• A Typical Day of a Business Analyst

2. Project Management Overview

•  What is a Project?
• What is Project Management?
• Understanding the Iron Triangle
• What are the different Phases of a Project?
• Understanding various Knowledge Areas and Processes within each of them
• Reviewing Key Project Management Artifacts
• Project Scope vs Product Scope
• Creating a Project Plan (Schedule) Using Gantt Tool

3. Understanding Stakeholder Landsca

• Primary vs Secondary Stakeholder
• Active vis Passive Stakeholder
• Understanding Various Types of Stakeholders ( Assignments )

4.   Understanding Different Types of Requirements?

•  What is a Requirement?
• Understanding Different Types of Requirements
• Business Need
• Stakeholder Requirement
• Functional
• Non-functional
• Graphical User Interface
• Business Rules

5. What is the Software Development Of Lifecycle

• Understanding the different Phases of SDLC
• Role of a Business Analyst in each of the SDLC Phases
• Learning and Comparing

(a)Predictive

(b)Iterative and Incremental

(c)Adaptive SDLC Models

6. Reviewing Different Software Engineering Models

• Waterfall
• Scrum (More emphasis will be given on Scrum)

7. Requirements Lifecycle

•  Requirements Elicitation
• Requirements Analysis
• Requirements Documentation
• Solution Assessment
• Requirements Management

8 . Requirements Elicitation

• What is Requirements Elicitation
• Understanding Various Requirements Elicitation Techniques
• Brainstorming
• Focus Group
• Requirements Workshops
• Interviews
• Questionnaire/survey
• Document Analysis
• Prototyping
• Pros and Cons of each of the Requirements Elicitation Techniques

9. Business Requirements Analysis

• SWOT Analysis Technique
• RCA (Root Cause Analysis) Technique
• Five Whys
• Fishbone (Ishikawa)
• Business Process Management
• What is Business Process Modeling
• Understanding various Business Process Modeling Notations
• How to Create a Business Process: Creating  As-Is l (Current-state) and  To Be (Future-state) Business Process Model
• Creating Root Cause Analysis Diagram

10. System Requirements Analysis

•  What is Unified Modeling Language(UML)
• Use Case Diagrams
• Creating all UML Models (Mentioned Above) Using MS
• What is Functional Requirements
• Documents (FRD) and Writing FR MS Word
• What is a Use Case Specification?
• Writing a Use Case Specification Document Using MS Word (Hands-on Exercise)

11 . Scrum

• What is Agile Software Development
• Understanding various Agile Software Development Practices/models
• What is Scrum?
• What is Agile Manifesting
• Different Roles in Scrum
• Role of a Business Analyst in Scrum
• Understanding various ceremonies in Scrum
• Writing Features-Epics-User Stories Using JIRA Tool (Hands-on Exercise)
• Writing Acceptance Criteria Using Gherkin Syntax (Given-When-Then Using JIRA Tool (Hands-on Exercise)
• How to Estimate a User Story and User Story Attributes in a JIRA T (Hands-on Exercise)?Various Techniques on Splitting an into Small User Stories
• How to Create Wireframes/Mockups

12 . Structured Query Language (SQL)

•  What is a  Database?
• What is a Table (Column/Row) in a Database?
• Understanding Database Schema
• What is SQL?
• Write SQL Queries (Hands-on Ex14.0 Requirements Management)
• What is Requirements Management?
• What is Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Creating an RTM Using DOORS/ MS Excel Tool (Hands-on Exercise)

13 . Requirements Estimation

• Why Estimate Requirements and Importance of Estimating Software Requirements?
• Overview of Different Software Requirements Estimating Models. Understanding Industry Best Practices: Estimate a Requirement

14 . Change Control

• What is the  Change Control Board (CCB). Role of a Business Analyst in a CCB Process

15 . Quality Assurance

•  What is Qualify Assurance? Different Types of Testing Models
• Role of a Business Analyst in Quality Assurance/Testing Phase

16. Miscellaneous Topics

•  What is Service-oriented Architecture
• What is Cloud Computing, and various Cloud Computing Models?
• What is Business Process

17.Healthcare Systems Overview

•  Health Insurance Basics
• Regulatory Standards
• Electronic Health Records