Courses - Business Analyst



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Class 1

  Course Roadmap
  Core Concepts of Business Analysis
  BA Role in Enterprise Context (w.r.t development team, stakeholders, PM, project sponsor…)   Flavors of BA Role (BA, SA, FA, BSA, DA…)
  Project Introduction

Class 2

  Project Lifecycle (SDLC)
  Product Lifecycle (PLM)
  Business Analysis and Project Manager Roles
  Essential Concepts ( RDBMS, Web development, eCommerce, ERP)
  Project Exercise

Class 3

  Introduction Software Development Methodologies
  Waterfall Method
  Rational Unified Process (RUP)
  RAD methodology
  Comparison between Waterfall & RUP
  Artifacts Delivered at Each Phase of RUP
  Agile using SCRUM
  RUP and Agile
  Project Exercise

Class 4

  Requirement Gathering Techniques
  Types of Requirements
  Facilitating Requirements Session
  Elicit Requirements through Document Analysis
  Elicit Requirements through Observation
  JAD Session
  Role of a BA in JAD Session
  Creating Functional Requirement Document
  Review Templates and Checklists
  Project Exercise

Class 5

  Context Diagrams
  Storyboards
  Prototypes
  Use Case Diagrams
  Creating Use cases from Requirements
  Creating Use Case Narratives
  Project Exercise

Class 6

  Software Tools used by BA
  Rational Requisite Pro
  Rational Rose
  MS Visio
  MS Outlook
  Project Exercise

Class 7

  Introduction to QA Methodology
  Role of BA in Testing
  Creating Test Plans , Test cases
  Functional and Regression testing
  White Box and Black Box Testing
  User Acceptance Testing
  Mercury Test Director Features

Class 8

  Topics Review
  Project Review
  Your first project
  Q & A