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CONTENTS OF BUSINESS ANALYST WORKSHOP

Module 1. Introduction to BA:

Ø  Business Analysis Overview & origin.

Ø  What is Business Analysis & Who is a Business Analyst (Functions)

Ø  Types of IT companies.

Ø  IT hierarchy

Ø  Stake Holders and types of Stake holders.

Ø  SPOC, SCOPE, SCOPE CREEP.

Ø  Business Analyst Prerequisites

Ø  Roles and Responsibilities of a BA

Ø  Do’s and Don’ts. Of a BA.

Ø  Problems faced by a BA with stakeholders in gathering requirements.

Ø  Stages in Business Analysis

Module 2. SDLC PROCESS:

Ø  SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)-Phases:

Ø  Enterprise planning

Ø  Designing phase

Ø  Development phase

Ø  Testing phase

Ø  Installation phase

Ø  Maintenance phase

Ø  Role of a BA in each phase

 or Software Engineering Methods

Ø  SDLC-Methodologies and Models

ü  Sequential Methodology/Water fall model

ü  Iterative methodology/RUP

ü  Evolutionary Methodology/spiral model/prototyping model

A. What are prototypes and different types?

B. Difference between a wireframe, prototype and mockup

ü  Agile Methodology/XP or Scrum

Ø  Difference between method and model

Module 4. SIX KNOWLEDGE AREAS:

Ø  6-knowledge Areas or Stages in Business Analysis:

Ø  Enterprise Analysis (Parito analysis, fish bone analysis, SWOT analysis, GAP analysis, Feasibility study, Business case writing)

Ø  Requirement Planning and Management(RACI-Responsible, accounted, consulted and informed)

Ø  Requirement Elicitation or gathering(Techniques of gathering requirements)

Ø  Requirement Communication

Ø  Requirement Documentation

Ø  Solution assessment and validation.

Module 5. REQUIREMNTS ANALYSIS PROCESS

Ø  Requirements and types.

Ø  Guide lines for good requirements.

Ø  Parameters of good requirement.

Ø  What is requirement gathering?

Ø  How to conduct requirement gathering session-phases.

Ø  Mistakes and challenges associated with requirement gathering.

Module 6. DOCUMENTATION (SRS, BRD, FRS & SOW):

Ø  Types of Documents prepared by a BA and their Standards(BRD & SRS Documents)

Ø  Contents of SRS & BRD documents

Ø  Preparation of SOW.

Ø  SOW-contents.

Ø  RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).

Module 7. OOPS & MVC ARCHITECTURE:

Ø  OOPS concepts

Ø  Elements of OOPS

Ø  Application of OOPS

Ø  MVC architecture

Ø  2-tier & 3-tier architecture.

Module 8. UML DIAGRAMS & TOOLS

Ø  UML introduction and diagrams

Ø  Use case Diagrams-Relationships in Use case Diagrams.

Ø  Extend and Include Functions.

Ø  Contents of Use Case description Documents

Ø  Sequence Diagrams(Brief Introduction)

Ø  Activity Diagrams(Brief Introduction)

Ø  Software’s used for preparing UML diagrams, Documentation and Prototypes

Module 9. BPM, RUP & RAD:

Ø  What is BPM(Business Process Modeling)

Ø  RUP(Rational Unified Processing)-phases

Ø  Documents prepared in RUP

Ø  RAD(Rapid Application Development)

Ø  Stages in RAD.

Module 10. SOFTWARE SERVERS & DIFFERENT TYPES OF SERVERS

Ø  Types of servers

Ø  Development Server.

Ø  UAT server.

Ø  How to do UAT testing and important points to be followed while doing UAT testing

Ø  Production server

Ø  Role of BA in each server.

Module 11. SOFTWARE TESTING – AREAS OF TESTING

Ø  Testing-areas of testing

Ø  Types of Testing

Ø  Introduction to QA Methodology

Ø  Role of BA in Testing

Ø  Creating Test Plans

Ø  Creating Test Cases

Ø  Different Testing Methods

Ø  Functional and Regression testing

Ø  White Box and Black Box Testing

Ø  Positive and Negative Testing

Ø  GUI and Unit Testing

Ø  User Acceptance Testing

Module 12. CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS:

Ø  Change Management Process

Ø  Reasons for requirement changes

Ø  Change request

Ø  Change of scope

Ø  Acceptable changes

Ø  How to handle Change request

ØCourse Syllabus

Module 1. Introduction to BA

Module 2. SDLC PROCESS

Module 3. SDLC METHODS & MODELS