Business Systems Analysis (IT)

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Course Description

This course has been specifically designed keeping in mind the expectations customers have from a seasoned business analyst. In today’s competitive environment, business analyst’s role is no longer of simply ‘A bridge between Business and IT’. There has been a paradigm shift in the role of business analyst in recent years. In today’s resource scare environment, customers expect business analyst to have knowledge and skills to conduct enterprise analysis, perform end-to-end business processes re-engineering, identify bottlenecks in their value streams, and most importantly develop solutions that would solve their problems and integrate their vision-strategy-technology towards a common goal.

Requirements elicitation and documenting them is a very small subset of a modern day business analyst’s role. In addition to the business analysis skills, project management skills are equally vital for a business analyst. Since the natural career trajectory of a business analyst curve towards project management discipline, we have included key topics of project management as well, which in a ‘real-world’ scenario, any experienced business analyst must be familiar with. This course has been specifically designed keeping in mind the expectations customers have from a seasoned business analyst..

What You Will Learn

Upon successfully completing the course, an individual will learn the following:

  • Background of business analysis discipline and business analysis fundamentals
  • Role of business analyst in a project
  • Knowledge areas as defined by IIBA’s BABOK®
  • Software development lifecycle (SDLC) concepts
  • Overview of BABOK® knowledge areas
  • Business process modeling
  • Use case writing
  • Epics, Themes and user stories
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams
  • Writing and managing requirements documents such as use cases, user stories, business process narratives etc
  • Requirements management processes
  • Business analysis best practices
  • Creating artifacts (deliverables) such as Requirements Management Plan (RMP), Use Cases, Requirements Management Plan (RTM) etc
  • Project management concepts such as project scope statement, project management plan (PMP), scheduling etc
  • Hand-on tools for creating business process flows, UML models, RTM etc
  • Change management, version controlling, defect tracking
  • Quality assurance fundamentals