Business Analyst (BA)

 BA Course Content - Business Analyst

1. IT Industry & Business Analysis Role – A Practitioner's Perspective

• International Institute of Business Analyst (IIBA) and Role of a Business Analyst
• Client Organization
• IT Company Organization
• Project Governance Structure
• SDLC Models
  • Waterfall
  • V Model
  • Prototype Model
  • Iterative Model
  • Spiral Model
  • Agile Methodologies - Scrum

1. Introduction to IIBA Body of Knowledge (BOK)

• Enterprise Analysis
• Requirements Planning and Management
• Requirements Elicitation
• Requirements Communication
• Requirements Analysis and Documentation
• Solution Assessment and Validation

1. Requirements Planning and Management

• Understand Team Roles and Stakeholder Analysis (RACI Matrix)
• Identify Requirement Activities and Estimation Technique
• Scope Management and Traceability Matrix
• Change Management Process
• Risk Management Process
• Real Time Case Study to understand the above concepts

1. Requirements Elicitation Models

• Interviews
• Observation
• Prototyping
• Document Analysis
• Focus Groups
• Brainstorming
• Interface Analysis
• Workshops
• Reverse Engineering
• Surveys / Questionnaires
• Real Time Case Study to understand the above concepts

1. Requirements Analysis and Documentation

• Structured Analysis
  • Data Flow Diagrams & Flowcharts
  • ER Diagrams
• Object Oriented Analysis
  • Introduction to Object Orientation Concepts
  • Advantages of OO over Structured Analysis
  • Introduction to UML
  • UML Diagrams relevant to a Business Analyst
    • Use Case Diagrams and Use Case Stories
    • Class & Object Diagrams
    • Sequence & Collaboration Diagrams
    • State Transition Diagrams
    • Activity Diagrams
  • Case Studies

1. Requirements Communication
   • Preparing Communication Plan
   • Defining Communication Requirements of Project
   • Conflict Management
   • Approvals & Signoffs
2. Solution Assessment & Validation
   • Role of Business Analyst in Testing
   • Stages of Testing
     • Unit Testing
     • Integration Testing
     • System Testing and
     • User Acceptance Testing
   • Testing Process
     • Test Strategy & Plan
     • Test Case Preparation
     • Test Execution
     • Defect Fixing
   • Testing Types
     • Functional Testing
     • UI Testing
     • Performance Testing
     • Access Control & Security Testing
     • Regression Testing
   • Testing Techniques
     • Black box Testing
     • White Box Testing
   • Test Metrics
3. Enterprise Analysis
   • Enterprise Analysis Process
   • Maintaining Business Architecture
     • Zachman Framework
     • POLDAT Framework