Business Analyst Training

Program Offers

• An essential Business Analysis training with Domain and Technology knowledge from an instructor who has 10+ years of industry experience with certifications in IIBA-CBAP, CSM and CSPO

• Training on weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

• Resume and cover letter preparation

• LinkedIn profile touch-ups

• Job placement preparation, including Mock Interviews

Business Analyst Training Course

• Business Analysis fundamentals

• A typical day of a Business Analyst

• Software Development Life Cycle

• Waterfall methodology of project life cycle

• Business Analysis Life cycle

• Business Analysis Tools and Techniques

• Agile methodology for the project life cycle

• Jira and Confluence

• SQL and UAT

• Domain Knowledge

• Technology Knowledge

• Exercises and workshop at each session

Program Agenda

Lesson 1: Business Analysis Foundations

• What is a business analyst?

• Who is a business analyst?

• Tasks of a Business Analyst at a High Level?

• Why do we need a business analyst?

• BA competencies in a nutshell

• Challenges and Risks in BA Hands-on:

• How to read a Business Analyst job description

• How does a BA fit into the Canadian market?

Lesson 2: Project Program Portfolio

• What is a project, program, or portfolio?

• IT project vs Software Project

• Who are stakeholders?

• A typical role in an IT project

• Constraints in a project

• Pre-Project activities

• PM roles vs BA roles

• Project Life Cycle (Waterfall, Iteration Agile) Hands-on:

• Interview format and expected flow of interview

• Assignment on Lesson 2

Lesson 3: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• SDLC methods, frameworks, and practices

• Waterfall methodology

• Iterative methodology

• Agile manifesto

• SCRUM, Kanban, and DevOps methodology

• BA’s involvement in SDLC and its respective deliverables Hands-on:

• Assignment on Lesson 3

Lesson 4: Business Analysis Life Cycle

• Planning Business Analysis activities

• Requirement Gathering and elimination

• Type of Requirement

• 25 requirements gathering tools and techniques

  • Workshops, Interviews, Focus Groups, Concept modeling, Functional decomposition, etc

  • JAD sessions, Survey, brainstorming, etc.

  • Document analysis, Estimation, Prototyping, Mock-ups, and wireframes

  • Data Mining, Data Modeling, ER Diagram, Data dictionaries, glossaries, etc

  • Flowchart, BPMN, Activity diagram, Sequence diagram, etc.

• BA Deliverables

  • BRD, BRL, SRS, Technical design document, Solution design document, Functional design document, Non-functional design document, Project Schedule, QA document, High-level and low-level documents

• Requirements Validation and verification Hands-on

• Hands on every tools and technique

• Hands-on visual diagram tools

• Introduction to BA technologies such as Draw.io, LucidChart, and MS Visio

• Small mini-assignments on visual tools

• Live Project 1: Requirement gathering

  • Preparing for requirement gathering

  • Conduct Requirement gathering

  • Close requirement gathering

  • BRD and BRL preparation

Lesson 5: Agile User Stories and Epics

• Product Backlog

• Sprint Backlog

• EPICS, User stories, Tasks, Subtasks, Acceptance Criteria

• What is a good user story? Hands-on

• Assignment on lesson 5

Lesson 6: SCRUM framework

• Scrum framework

• SCRUM Roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Team)

• Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Daily scrum meetings)

• Artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint backlog, Burndown chart, Incremental shippable Product): Hands-on

• Assignment on Lesson 6

• Live Project 2: Practical Hands-on SCRUM project via a live project

  • Jira and Confluence walk through

  • Writing good user stories using As a … I want... so that...

  • Performing SCRUM ceremonies

  • Opening and closing sprints

  • Defining Acceptance Criteria

  • Creating Sprint Backlog, Prioritization, and and and and and Estimations

Lesson 7: Agile Planning and Estimation

• Why do we plan? And what should I plan?

• Product Vision, Product Roadmap and Release Planning

• Agile Estimations

• Planning Poker Game

• How to calculate the duration of Agile projects

• Calculate velocity of the project

Lesson 8: Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Introduction to Database, DBMS, and Datawarehouses

• Foundations of SQL

• Select statement

• Join within SQL Hands-on:

• Handson practical on sqlzoo and w3school

• Relationships and joining

• ER diagram creation and understanding based on a use case

Lesson 9: Technologies that a Business Analyst Should Know

• Introduction to Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

• Introduction to Big Data and Data Engineering

• The business needs user User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Environment within the Software Industry

• How do cloud-based platforms work?

Lesson 10: Domain Knowledge

• Introduction to Insurance Domain

• Introduction to Capital Markets

• Introduction to Loan Management System

• Introduction to Retail Industry

Additional

• Interview Preparation

• Conduct Mock Interviews