Certification Course in Business Analyst
Overview
To achieve success in this competitive business environment, organizations are emphasizing to have business analysis practice, which is the set of tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems. The person who carries out this task is called a Business Analyst or Business System Analyst.
This certification course will introduce the role and responsibilities of business analyst according to standard described by International Institute of Business Analysis, and teaches business analysis skills and various modeling techniques that are needed in analyzing and developing business system application. It incorporates requirement gathering, requirement analysis, and documenting complex requirement.
Learning Objectives
- Candidate will cover three aspects of Business Analyst course i.e. “Theoretical”, “Practical” and the “Certification exam preparation”.
- Learn advance business analysis tools and techniques (including role of Business Analyst), Idea of Enterprise Analysis and problem-solving techniques.
- Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis and Requirement documentation techniques including technical documentation.
- In requirement documentation, candidate will learn how to model the business requirement by using business process modeling (data flow diagram, Flow charts etc. and data modeling (ERD, Normalization etc.) techniques. It also includes UML and use cases.
- Perform key functions of Business Analyst, Apply solid BA structured approach, Evaluate and prioritized BA task.
- Candidate should be able to create a Requirement Document.
- By the end of this course candidate will be able to write CBAP certification exam.
Target Audience
- Programmers and Developers looking for more challenges in their respective areas.
- Person should have basic knowledge with basics of Business Analyst.
· People looking for new career within their business organizations with knowledge of (Accounts, Finance, Supply Chain, Insurance and Telecom)
- Experienced business analyst looking for “Structured” business analysis knowledge.
- Team leads, primes and supervisors.
Pre-requisite
- Related to any field however should have basic business domain knowledge.
- Know about business process of their organization.
- Developers with more than three year of experience.
Class Format
The duration of the class is 21 hours.
Course contents
- Lectures.
- Assignments
- Case Study “Business Requirement Document”
- Class Test /Quizzes
- Notes / Class hand outs
Course Detail
1. Introduction to IIBA/CBAP
a. History of IIBA.
b. Difference between BABOK 1.6 and BABOK 2.0.
c. Cover both BABOK 1.6 and BABOK 2.0
d. Test taking technique.
e. Multiple questions and answers.
2. Introduction to Business Analyst & Business Analysis
a. What is Business Analysis and who is Business Analyst (BA, SA and BSA)
b. Define a Business analyst role.
c. Targets, Objective and Challenges faced by Business Analyst.
d. Relation between BA and other team members
e. Strength of Business Analyst.
3. Planning involved in Business Analysis work.
a. Find the best approach for conducting Business Analysis.
b. With whom Business Analyst deals?
c. Business Analysis activities conducted by Business Analyst.
d. How to communicate requirement with stakeholders and others.
e. Manage requirement scope definition.
4. Enterprise Analysis
a. What is business needs?
b. Gap Analysis
c. Define and determine solution scope and solution approach.
d. Define Strategic and Enterprise Analysis.
e. Feasibility Study.
f. Business Case
5. Working with Requirements/Requirement Elicitation.
a. Requirement Planning
· Develop a team and define their roles and responsibilities
· Identify, Describe and Categorized the Stakeholder.
· Consider SDLC and PLC Methodology.
· Work break down structure.
· Select and Estimate Requirement Activities.
· Create Requirement Scope.
b. Requirements gathering and Requirement Analysis
· What is the Requirement?
· What are constraints and implementation of requirement tracability Matrix?
· Problem given and understand by using affinity diagram technique.
· Determine Root causes. (Fish bone diagram).
· Determine possible options. (Use mind-mapping technique)
· Identify approaches for best possible solutions.
· Define Problem and Problem Domain.
c. Types of Requirement
d. Characteristics of Excellent Requirement
e. Requirements gathering Technique.
f. Analysis and documentations of Requirement
6. Requirement Analysis and Documentation.
a. Introduction to Process Modeling
b. What is business process re-engineering?
c. What is Process modeling?
d. Data Flow diagrams
· Guidelines
· DFD rules
· DFD Types
e. Flow Charts
f. Swim lane diagram.
g. Data Modeling
· Introduction to data modeling
· What is Relational Model?
· ERD (Entity relationship diagram)
· Normalization
h Object Oriented Analysis and Design
i Introduction of OOAD
j. Use Case Diagram.
k. Use case Scenarios.
l. Use case and Test case.
7. Solution Confirmation and Justification against requirement
a. How to review the proposed solution
b. Requirements distribution for COTS.
c. Define transition requirement and its implementation.
d. Validate solution.
e. Evaluate solution performance.
【Instructor】Mr. AJ，A Certified Business Analyst with over 8 years experience and expertise ranging from finance, billing, supply chain and telecommunication. With past associations including distinguished organizations both large and small including in present capacity as an IT consultant for Rogers Communications Inc. Proficient in all the phases of SDLC and expert in advanced data and business modeling techniques, thoroughly familiar with the ins and outs of conducting a business analysis.