Business Analysis for the IT Professional

The business analyst role has evolved from that of a business procedures analyst to that of a business liaison between the non-technical user community and the technical solution providers. This course provides proactive, introductory coverage of the knowledge and skills essential to business analysts today and the foreseeable future. Delivery Method This IT Business Skills Series course does not follow the intensive hands-on lab methodology that is used in our traditional system administrator or developer classes. Our IT Business Skills classes have less of a hands-on component and more of a lecture/presentation style delivery. About ONLC Our Business Analyst course has been approved by the IIBA and it conforms to the BABOK v3 (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge). ONLC Training Centers is approved by IIBA as one of their Endorsed Education Providers. Duration 4 days

1 Overview 1.1 BA Responsibilities 1.2 Communications 1.2.1 Information distribution 1.2.2 Communications styles 1.3 Documentation strategy 2 Requirements Gathering 2.1 Levels of requirements on a project 2.2 Identifying needs vs. wants 2.3 Techniques for gathering requirements 2.3.1 Interviewing 2.3.2 Prototyping 2.3.3 Use Cases 2.3.4 Collaborative Workshops 2.3.5 Work Breakdown Structure 2.3.6 Business Process Analysis 2.3.7 Use Cases 2.4 Ranking requirements 3 Modeling 3.1 Business Process Analysis 3.1.1 Business Process Improvements (BPI) 3.1.2 Business Process Reengineering (BPR) 3.2 Data Modeling 3.2.1 Fundamentals 3.2.2 Entity Relationship Diagrams 4 Fundamentals of testing 4.1 Testing strategy 4.2 Ensure project quality and quality of the product 4.3 Test scripts 5 Templates 5.1 Software/Product Requirements Outline 5.2 Use Case Template 5.3 Test Plan Template 6 Practical Application Sessions 6.1 Determine your own Communication Style 6.2 Interview a project sponsor 6.3 Develop Use Cases and a Use Case Diagram 6.4 Gather requirements while developing a Work Breakdown Structure 6.5 Create a Business Process model 6.6 Design and facilitate a Requirements-Gathering session 6.7 Develop a high-level Requirements Document 6.8 Develop an Entity Relationship Diagram 6.9 Create a Project Test Plan