Course Content
Introduction
- Importance of BA in the industry
- Roles and Responsibilities of BA
- Skills required for the role
- Deliverables of a BA
- How is the current market for BA
SDLC
- What is a Software project
- What is SDLC
- Different phases of SDLC
- How as a BA we get involved in different phases of SDLC
Requirement Engineering
- What is Requirement Engineering
- Problems with Requirement Practices
- Different Requirement Engineering Tasks
- Processes to be followed to gather requirements
- Typical questions to be asked to the business team while gathering requirements
Project Case Study
- An example project to discuss a real life scenario
- How the requirement engineering concepts can be implemented in an example project.
- Real life scenarios to discuss each concept
Use Cases
- What is a Use Case
- Different sections of a use case document
- How to prepare a use case document
- Use Case Templates
- Real life example of a use case document
- Assignment on Use Case document
Requirement Prioritization
- Why to prioritize requirements
- Factors to consider while prioritizing requirements
- Participants of Requirement Prioritization
- Process to follow while prioritizing requirements
- Requirement Prioritization Model
Traceability Matrix
- Purpose of Traceability
- Significance of Traceability
- What is Traceability Matrix
- Why it is use
- How traceability matrix is use to do Gap Analysis
System Quality Attributes
- What are System Quality Attributes
- What are the various SQA
- UML Diagrams(class,state,interaction)
- Non Functional Requirements
- What are non functional requirements
- What is the significance of non functional requirements
- How the non functional requirements are gathered
- Non functional requirements document template
System Requirement Specification
- What is a SRS document
- What are the various sections of SRS document
- How a SRS document is prepared
- SRS document template
Flow Chart
- What is flow chart diagram
- Different symbols used in a Flow chart diagram
- How flow chart diagram is used in a software project
- How flow chart diagrams can be draws using Microsoft Visio
- Real life example of a flow chart diagram
Wireframes or Mock-ups
- What is a wireframe
- Why is wireframe used
- How a wireframe can be drawn using Microsoft Visio
- An example wireframe
Software Development Methodologies
- What are the various software development methodologies
- Pros and cons of each of the methodologies
- How as a BA we get involved in the different methodologies
- Which are the most popular methodologies
- Detail discussion on Agile methodology
Testing
- Basic concepts of Software testing
- Different types of testing
- Difference between Manual and automation testing
- Various levels of software testing
- Testing artifacts
- Step by step process of software testing
- Test case document
- Real life example of a test case document
- Role of a BA during testing
Project Management concepts
- Roles and responsibilities of a project manager
- What can be the involvement of BA in Project Planning
Data Modeling and Database Management system
- What is data modeling
- What is entity and attributes
- What are relationships
- What is ERD
- Basic concepts of Database management systems
- Master and Transaction tables
- Primary Key
- Basics of SQL
UML
- What is UML
- Why it is used
- UML Diagrams (Activity, Use Case)
