Business Analyst
1 Overview of Business Analysis
Who is a Business Analyst?
Business Team / Technical Team
Roles and Responsibility of BA
2 Jargons
Who is a stakeholder ?
What is an NDA ?
Who is a contractor Business Analyst ?
What is Functionality ?
What is kick off?
What is go live
What is Sign off ?
3 Analyses
Who is an Actor ?
How to identify an actor ?
What is an Use Case ?
How to identify the use case?
Use Case Template
Attributes / Components of Use Case Template ?
Analysis Overview (GAP, SWOT, PEST)
4 UML
What is UML?
Types of UML
Context Diagram
Use Case Diagram
Activity Diagram
Sequence Diagram
5 Modeling tool
Microsoft Visio overview
Omini Graffle
6 Requirement Gathering Method
Existing Documentation Web Exploring
Interviewing
Questionnaire
7 JAD Session
What is JAD session
Protocols involved in JAD
Role of BA in JAD session
8 Software Development Life Cycles
Scope Identification
Planning
Analysis
Design
Development
Testing
Deployment / Installation
User Training / User Acceptance
9 SDLC - Methodology
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Waterfall Methodology
Agile Methodology
10 Documentation
Overview of Business Requirement Document ( BRD )
Contents of Business Requirement Document ( BRD )
Participants in JAD session
Walkthrough of BRD
Overview of Functional Requirement Document ( FRD )
Contents of Functional Requirement Document ( FRD )
Walkthrough of FRD
Overview of Project Management Plan
Overview of Project Charter
Overview of Actor Catalog
Overview of User Manual
11 Scope Management
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS )
WBS Dictionary
Baseline
Cost Baseline
Schedule Baseline
Scope Baseline
12 Time Management
Estimation Techniques
One - Point Estimation
Padding
Three - Point Estimation
Pert Formula
Estimated Activity Duration
Standard Deviation
Range
Analogous Estimation
13 Cost Management
Life Cycle Costing
Value Analysis
Variable Cost
Fixed Cost
Direct Cost
Indirect Cost
14 Quality Management
What is Quality ?
Gold Plating
What is Kaizen
Just-in-Time
Quality Audit
Sigma Standards
15 Communication Management
Stakeholder Register
Types of Communication
Communication Channel
16 Risk Management
What is Risk
What is Well Defined Risk ?
What is Risk Response Owner ?
What is Trigger ?
What is Contingency Plan ?
What is Secondary Risk ?
17 Procurement Management
Who is a Buyer ?
Who is Seller ?
Centralized Procurement Department
Advantage & Disadvantage Centralized Procurement Dept
De - Centralized Procurement Department
Advantage & Disadvantage Decentralized Procurement Dept
Contracts
Fixed Price Contracts
Cost Reimbursable Contract
Time & Material Contract
18 Software Testing Basics
Definition of Testing ?
Why is testing necessary ?
Causes of software defects
Testing & Quality
Terminologies : Error, Defect and Failure
Testing Types
19 Manual Testing
Test requirement gathering and analysis
Test Plan Preparation
Test Design
Test Execution
Defect Reporting and Tracking
Test Closure Activity
20 Quality Center
Requirement Module
Creating requirement
Test Plan Module
Creating Test Cases
Test Lab Module
Defect Module
Linking requirements, test cases & defects
21 SQL
What is Data ?
Role of Data
What is Database ?
Need for Database
Why Database is essential for BA ?
Mapping the real time scenarios in database design
What is DBMS ?
RDBMS concepts
Table
What is Primary Key ?
What is Foreign Key ?
SQL Queries
22 Offshore / Onshore models
Introduction to CMM Levels
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
ISO Standards
Introduction to Six Sigma
SOX (Sarbanes – Oxley)
Introduction HL7 Standard
23 Project in different domains
Health
Banking
Insurance
Information Technology
Mortgage
Telecom
Trading
