Business Analysis (BA)

Introduction - What is Business Analysis? 

• A look at different viewpoints 
• What is being analyzed? 
• What’s the goal? 
• Current trends in business analysis 
• Key concepts 
• Definition 
• IT hierarchy 
• BA Prerequisite 
• Stages in Business Analysis 

The Role of the BA 

• The relationship of business analysis to project management 
• Differentiating between business analysis and other “analyst” roles 
• Customer Needs & IT Needs-1 
• The Skill Set Of A BA 
• The BA’s Core Knowledge Set 

The practice of  Business Analysis 

• BA Responsibility 
• Requirements Shepherding 
• Analysis Workflow 
• Dark Side of Business Analysis 

SDLC  

• SDLC Phases 
• Planning 
• Defining 
• Designing 
• Building 
• Testing 
• Deployment 
• Role of BA in SDLC Phase 

SDLC Methods 

• SDLC Phases 
• Waterfall/Sequential Model 
• Iterative Model 
• Spiral Model 
• Agile Model 
• Example Case Study 
• Difference between wireframe, prototype and model 

Requirement Analysis 

• Different Stages of requirement 
• What is requirement gathering? 
• What is requirement Analysis? 
• Functional and Non Functional Requirement  
• Requirements, Features And Constraints 
• Difference between Vision and Scope 

Business Requirement 

• Establish Project, Vision and Scope 
• Problem Statement 
• Constraint 
• Risk 
• Business Executive Summary 
• Documenting Project Scope 
• Business & Objectives 
• Project Description 

Documentation 

• BRD Document 
• SRS Document 
• Wireframe 
• Data Flow Diagrams 

UML Diagrams and Tools 

• UML introduction and diagrams 
• What is use case? 
• Use Case Diagrams 
• Use case Diagrams-Relationships in Use case Diagrams. 
• Extend and Include Functions. 
• Contents of Use Case description Documents  
• Activity Diagrams(Brief Introduction) 
• Fishbone Diagrams 
• Software’s used for preparing UML diagrams, Documentation and Prototypes 

Diagnosing the Business Environment 

• Business Problem Solving 
• Understand the business environment 
• Defining a problem 
• finding and verifying true causes 
• Example Case Study 

Change Management Process 

• Change of scope 
• Change of request 
• How to handle change request 
• Points to consider in case of CR 
• Reason for requirement changes 

Project Management 

• Project Management tools like Jira/basecamp