Business Analyst

Introducing business analyst

Introduction to business analyst domain
Need for business analysts
Various roles and responsibilities, how the business analyst fits in the project team
Significance of communication and collaboration
Core competencies of business analyst
Techniques and approaches in business analysis
How business analysts fit in the corporate structure
Different departments in the organization that business analysts connect with.

Understanding business needs

Understanding the needs of the business
Gathering the requirements
Studying feasibility, prioritizing, assessing the risks
Evaluating and choosing the right initiative
Assessing change of requirements
Getting the requirements

Project management

Introduction to the various types of projects
what are the phases in an IT project?
Important activities
Deliverables and key people involved
Comparing the software development lifecycle and product lifecycle
How one project depends on another project
what are the tasks and responsibilities of project manager?
- Planning and monitoring a project
- Critical path analysis
- Relationship between tasks
- Allocating the resources
- Working under various constraints

Techniques used by business analysts

Introduction to the various techniques that the business analysts can use, like
- SWOT
- CATWOE
Important tools used by business analysts
Analysis of strategy
Various components of strategy analysis
Identification of stakeholders and the needs of business
What is business modeling?
Analyzing
Designing
Implementing
Testing
Deploying in the business environment

Software project methodologies

The various software engineering processes
Understanding the software project steps
Understanding the software development lifecycle
The difference between waterfall and agile software methodologies
Understanding RUP and RAD methodologies
Project deliverables

Requirement planning & elicitation

What is the role of business analysts in requirement gathering?
The various types of requirements
Business analysis plan
Requirements Work Plan
Components of RWP
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Business specifications and roles
Methods for elicitation like interview
- Brainstorming
- Document analysis
- Survey
- Reverse engineering
- Product trails

Analyzing the requirements

The need for analyzing the requirements
Various modeling techniques of analyzing like
- Organization
- Process
- Data
- Location
- Use cases and states
- Business rules analysis
How to prioritize the requirements?
Requirement verification and its validation?
Documenting the requirements
Level of detail needed

Modeling business processes

What is business process modeling?
Importance of process modeling
Process management
Introduction to following
- Unified Modeling Language
- Prototyping
- Structure diagrams
- The various components
- Package and object diagrams
- Behavior diagram
- Use case diagrams
- Interaction overview diagram

Evaluating business solutions

Evaluating the solution
Measuring the performance of the solution
Analyzing performance metrics
Assessing the limitations of the solution
Improving the value of the solution through recommended solution

Scope of business analysts

Understanding How business analysts make a difference in various domains
The scope of business analysts in the agile methodology perspective
Defining the various techniques and approaches of business analysts
The scope of business analysts in business intelligence
How business analysts improve the information technology domain?
Business analysts streamlining the domain of business architecture
The various methodologies
Frameworks and techniques
How business analysts make a difference in business process management