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 vis Product Scope
• Creating a Project Plant (Schedule) Using Gantter Tool

3. Understanding Stakeholder Landsca

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

4.   Understanding  different Types of Requirement?

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

5.What is 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 Technique

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

12 .Structured Query Language (SQL)

•  What is 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 to 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 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 vario Cloud Computing Models?
• What is Business Process