Business Analyst Fundamentals
Public and Teleseminar Class Schedule
Prerequisites: none
Duration: 7 days at a site, 10 weeks teleseminar series
Public class price: $2500.00 includes instructor, meeting space, all course materials, and lunch each day.
Public class size: 10 - 20 delegates
Teleseminar class price: $970.00 includes 2 meetings a week with the instructor (one instructional, one Q&A) and all course materials. Homework is assigned, and delegates interact through a chat room. Meetings are recorded and available for delegates to download after the meeting, making it possible for people to attend who have a schedule conflict at the meeting times.
Teleseminar minimum class size: 10 delegates
Description: This class provides the basic skills needed by a Business Analyst for IT projects. It discusses the
role of the BA on a variety of software project teams, such as traditional, RUP, Agile, and Scrum. The course covers a breadth of topics,
starting with defining the goals of the project, through problem analysis, requirements, requirements analysis, the integration with
architecture and design, integration with testers, and conducting client acceptance tests.
Delegates will practice techniques such as interviews, facilitating and scribing JAD sessions, and observations; writing project goals, use cases, business rules,
and supplemental requirements; collaborating with the project architect, development team, testers, and technical writers; and running client acceptance tests.
This course is appropriate for anyone interested in becoming a Business Analyst or deepening their knowledge of the Business Analyst role.
This course is particularly good for career changers who are looking for more background in the Business Analyst role.
Benefits of this Course:
- Know what a Business Analyst is and the role a Business Analyst plays on a software project
- Know how to elicit information using techniques of research, interviews, JAD sessions, and observations
- Know how to write requirements in the form of Use Cases, business rules, and supplemental requirements
- Learn how to do analysis, why it is important, and what this contributes to the project
- Know how to interact with other members of the project team
Topics
- What is a Business Analyst
- Business Analyst roles
- Traditional projects
- RUP projects
- Agile projects
- Scrum projects
- Determining the Goal of the project
- Problem statements
- Analyzing the problem
- Creating and Documenting Project Goals
- Getting Stakeholder agreement
- Determine the characteristics of the solution
- Eliciting Information
- Research
- Interviews
- JAD - Facilitating
- JAD - Scribing
- Conducting Observations
- Playing Games
- Surveys
- Competitive Analysis
- Determing the project requirements
- What are Requirements
- Types of requirements to look for
- Business Analysis of the characteristics of the solution
- Determining the best way to document the requirements
- Writing Requirements Documentation
- Basic Use Cases
- Activity Diagrams
- Business Rules
- Supplemental Requirements
- User Interface Requirements
- Product Mock-ups
- Reporting Requirements
- Domain model or business objects
- Test cases as requirements
- User stories and the project backlog
- Task lists as requirements - the iteration backlog
- Getting Stakeholder Approval
- Identifying who has to approve the requirements
- Formality of requirements approval
- Requirements Review meetings
- Product Owner approval
- Interacting with the Development Team
- Project Architect
- Project Test Team
- Technical Writers
- The UI Designer
- The Data Modeler
- Acceptance Testing
- Reviews
- Demonstration
- Observation
- Measurement
- Client Acceptance Testing
- Requirements Management
- What are you trying to accomplish?
- Reports you may find useful
- Information you have to manage to generate those reports
- Traceability
- Versioning and Baselines
- Change Control
- Mastering Communication
- Determing a communication strategy - formality, frequency, audience, level of detail
- Tools that help you communicate
- Resources for your continuing education
- Certifications
- Books
- Websites
Instructors: Geri Schneider Winters. Ms. Winters is the primary author of the first book published on how to write and use Use Cases. Applying Use Cases: A Practical Guide was first released in 1998 and has remained continuously in print ever since. Ms. Winters is well-known and widely sought as an expert on software requirements, particularly those written as use cases. She is both a trainer and expert practitioner in this area, at a wide variety of companies throughout the US and Canada.
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Comments
"You class has been very helpful and I am already putting things I have learned to good use. Thank you again for all your help!"
Jodi W.
Illinois, USA
"Just wanted to let you know I will not be on tomorrow's webinar session because....
... I'll be in an interview for a BA position! Hooray!
And trust me, that's about the *only* thing that could've kept me outta your class."
Karen C.,
Alaska, USA
Comments refer to the Writing Use Cases course, which has similar content to this course