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BUSINESS ANALYSISIN PRACTICECURRICULUM
DAY 1 – 8 HOUR
MODULE 1: BUSINESS ANALYSIS OVERVIEW
MODULE 2: TYPES OF REQUIREMENTS
MODULE 3: STRATEGY ANALYSIS
MODULE 4: BUSINESS ANALYSIS PROCESS
ACTIVITIES
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ACTIVITIES
à Overview & Scope of Business Analysis
à Role of a Business Analyst
à Business Analyst Competencies
à IIBA Certification Overview
à Business Analysis Stages – Pre IT Project, During IT Project and Post – IT Project
à What are “Requirements”?
à Requirements Categorization: Business, Stakeholder, Solution, Transition Requirement
à Hierarchy of Requirements
à Define, Understand & Execute Strategy
à Triggers that Generate Business Need
à Steps in Strategic Enterprise Analysis
à Current vs Future State
à Understand the Business Analysis Process
à Steps in Business Analysis
à Stakeholder Analysis & Management
à Discussion: Participants on Their Understanding of Business Analysis
à Discussion: Real Life Examples of Business Analysis Stages
à Exercise: Analyze a Case Study and Identify Different Types of Requirements
à Exercise: SWOT Analysis for Capability Assessment for a Case Study
à Discussion & Demo: Value Stream Mapping
à Discussion: With Participants about Overall BA Process
à Exercise: Identifying Stakeholders from a Given Case Study
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MODULE 5: BA PLANNING
MODULE 7: REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION
MODULE 6: WRAP UP
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à Basis for Variation: Business Analysis Approach, Stakeholder Complexity, Project Complexity
à Factors Impacting BA's Tasks in a Project -Process, Deliverables, Techniques and Activities
à Waterfall Methodology (SDLC)
à Agile Manifesto
à Finalize Business Analysis Approach
à Role & Responsibilities for BA in Agile / Scrum Project
à Stakeholder Identification & Analysis
à Elicitation Process
à Steps Prior to Requirements Gathering
à Elicitation Techniques with Pros and Cons of Each
à Guidelines for Effective Elicitation
à Elicitation Documentation
à Typical Risks for Business Analysts
à Summary & Wrap-up for Day 1
à Questions from Participants
à Exercise: Prepare BA Plan for a Case Study
à Exercise: Prepare RACI Matrix for a Case Study
à Exercise: Elicitation Role Play using Case Study
à Discussion: Various Elicitation Techniques
à Exercise: Identifying Suitable Elicitation Techniques for Handling Real Life Scenarios
à 10 Question Assessment for Day 1
DAY 2 – 8 HOUR
BUSINESS ANALYSISIN PRACTICECURRICULUM
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MODULE 8: REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
MODULE 9: WRAP UP
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
à Requirements Prioritization - Importance, Techniques and Challenges
à Requirements Verification & Validation
à Characteristics of Good Quality Requirements
à Requirements Modeling & Documentation
à ULM Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams & Prototyping
POST TRAINING INTERVENTIONSA BRD template will be provided to participants. Based on below information and exercises,
learners will develop a sample BRD. This will be emailed to the faculty 2 weeks after the workshop,
following which learners will receive individual, detailed evaluation of their BRD submission.
à Summary & Wrap-up for Day 2
à Questions from Participants
à Exercise: Requirements Prioritization for a Case Study
à Exercise: Review a Case Study based Requirement Document using Requirements Review
Checklist
à Exercises on Requirements Modeling using a Case Study: Process Improvement, Use Case
Modeling, Data Dictionary
à Discussion: BRD & its Contents
à 50 Question Assessment
à Individual Skill Assessment by Trainer
Process Modeling
Review the case study, analyze
the As-Is process, identify
opportunities for improvement
and model the To-Be process
Data Dictionary
Review the case study to identify
data entities, attributes and
description. Create a data
dictionary based on the analysis
Use Case Modeling
Review the case study to identify
actors and actions. Model the use
case diagram for the identified
elements
BUSINESS ANALYSISIN PRACTICECURRICULUM