Business Analyst

• Importance of Effective Business Analyst
• Role of Business Analyst
• Standardization & Adaptability

• Role of the Business Analyst requirements planning 
• Vision and Scope Documents
• Stakeholders
• Business Analyst plan

• Business Analyst role in Requirements Elicitation
• Investigative approach
• Iterative approach 
• Techniques
• Interviews
• Focus Groups
• Requirements Workshop : 1. Requirements meeting 2. JAD session
• Brainstorming
• Observation
• Survey
• Prototype
• Document Analysis
• Business rules analysis 
• Reverse engineering
• Product trials

• Requirements of Analysis
• How to use Analysis to get a stakeholder feedback and verify and validate
• Developing of requirements 
• Value of modelling techniques in analysis
• Modeling Techniques
• Types of model – Organisational model, Location model, Process/flow model, Use case model, Data models, State model
• Various types of requirements 
• Business rules analysis
• Prioritising requirements 
• Verifying and validating requirements

• Introduction to formal and informal documentation 
• Detail required for formal and informal documentation
• Usability and Comprehension writing
• Document defects of common requirements 
• Components of a formal requirements document
• Requirements of Verification and Validation 
• Requirements sign-off

• Project and Decommission
• Change Management
• How to define a baseline
• How to define a change management process
• How to identify the change authority
• Traceability and its uses
• Requirements of Attributes
• Requirements of communication 

• Testing and Non-testing Methods
• Purpose of Validation
• Find defects
• Prove compliance to requirements 
• Test cases and test suites
• Types of challenges in Testing 
• About Structured Testing 
• Role of the Business Analysis in Solution Validation: V model
• Solution acceptance and project close-out 

• Definition and causes
• Role of the Business analysis on the Enterprise analysis team
• Different steps in Enterprise Analysis
• Define Business need
• Techniques for root cause analysis
• Access capability gaps
• SWOT Analysis
• Determine the solution approach
• Define the solution scope
• Define the business case
• Contents of business case
• The BA’s limited role in developing a business case

• Competency Proficiency 
• Necessary Competencies of BA 
• Analytical thinking and problem solving 
• Behavioural characteristics
• Business Knowledge 
• Communication skills 
• Interaction Skills
• Software application knowledge
• Use of iterative analysis
• Process improvement
• Best practices
• Progressive elaboration
• Check as you go 
• Use of the investigative approach 
• Adopt traceability 
• Formalise business analysis through standardisation
• Improve communication through modelling

• Waterfall 
• Incremental
• Agile
• Effects on business analysis 

• Communication Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Problem-solving Skills
• Knowledge of Business 
• Knowledge of IT

Types of Diagram:

• Class diagram
• Component diagram
• Composite structure diagram
• Deployment diagram
• Object diagram
• Package diagram 
• Profile diagram
• Activity diagram
• State machine diagram
• Use-case diagram
• Communication diagram
• Interaction overview diagram
• Sequence diagram
• Timing diagram