Anyone interested in gaining a broad knowledge of the key tasks and techniques involved in business analysis.

1. Introduction to Business Analysis

• What is Business analysis?
• The role of business analyst
• Key roles and responsibilities of business analyst
• Business analysis and related disciplines
• Underlying competencies for business analyst

2. Business Analysis and the Project Life Cycle

• Software Development Life Cycle
• SDLC Models
• SDLC and role of business analyst

3. Enterprise Analysis

• Business goals and objectives
• Writing SMART goals/objectives
• Benchmarking
• SWOT analysis
• PEST analysis
• Business need definition
• Feasibility study
• Solution approach
• Problem or vision statement definition
• Business case definition
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Cost benefit analysis

4. Planning and Monitoring of Business Analysis Activities

• Planning of the requirements management process
• Stakeholder analysis
• Complexity of stakeholder group
• Stakeholder attitude and influence
• RACI and stakeholder matrix
• Business analysis activities planning
• Functional decomposition
• Business analysis communication planning
• Impact of geography and cultural diversity on business analysis
• Communications formality
• Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Requirements attributes
• Requirements prioritization
• Change management process

5. Requirements Elicitation

• Preparing for requirements elicitation
• Conducting elicitation activity
• Documenting and confirming elicitation results
• Elicitation techniques: Document analysis, interview, JAD sessions, observation, requirements workshops, survey, document analysis, focus groups

6. Requirements Management and Communication:

• Solution scope and requirements management
• Conflict and issue resolution
• Importance of sign-offs
• Re-using requirements
• Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Business Requirements Specification (BRS)
• Requirements documents for vendor selection (RFP, RFQ, RFI)

7. Requirements Analysis

• Requirements prioritization
• GAP analysis
• MOSCOW analysis
• Requirements organization and modeling
• Assumptions and Constraints
• Requirements verification and validation

8. Solution Assessment and Validation

• Assessing of the proposed solution
• Defining of transition requirements
• Validating solution
• Quality Assurance basic terms
• Assessing defects and issues?
• User acceptance testing
• Evaluating of solution performance

9. Project Assignments based on Domain Interest

10. UML [tool] using M.S Visio
• UML Defined
• UML History
• UML Modeling mechanisms
• Reviews
• UML diagrams
• Use case diagrams
• Activity diagrams
• Sequence diagrams
• Business Overview diagrams

Optional

11. SQL
12. JIRA
13. HP Quality Center

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