Business Analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to work & understand the structure, policies and operations of an organization, and recommend solutions that enables the organization to achieve its goals.

• Business analysis focuses on identifying requirements in the context of helping organizations to achieve strategic goals
• Business analysis involves tasks that include investigation, scoping and definition of requirements for new or altered systems
• Business analysis is an important part of the system design process; business analysts along with system analysis identify the needs or requirements of the clients

Business analysis is distinct from financial analysis, project management, quality assurance, organizational development, testing, training and documentation development. However, depending on the organization, a business analysis professional may perform some or all of these related functions.

Who can be a Business Analyst?

Graduate or post-graduate who is enthusiastic about business as well as technology with good analytical, communication, presentation, and documentation skills can become a Business Analyst. Any Graduate and novice skills of Business Analysis are required.

Career as a Business Analyst:

Graduate or post-graduate who is enthusiastic about business as well as technology with good analytical, communication, presentation, and documentation skills can become a Business Analysts can work in different industries and may have different titles and roles. Some of these include:

• A Business Consultant works at a high level to analyze the stakeholder’s business objectives, recommend and develop solutions to address their business problem
• Business Process Analyst is responsible for analyzing and defining business processes both “As Is” and “To Be”
• Business Architect models the whole business in terms of goals, data, process, organization
• A Requirements Analyst/Specifier works at a lower level to identify, analyze and document the business requirements and deliver work products through the project life cycle
• Systems Analyst translates the business requirements into System/Functional requirements, which are then passed to Application Developers
• Management Consultant assists stakeholders with understanding their strategic goals and how best to accomplish them.
• Many business analysts often perform several of these roles, and therefore this position is best filled by an individual with a broad skill set.

Depending on their years of experience, Senior Business Analysts may play a lead role in the strategic evaluation of an organization’s current systems and processes. In addition, they work at a high level to analyze a client’s business, then recommend and develop solutions to address their business challenge.

Part I – Introduction to Business Analysis

• Introduction to Business Analysis.
• Key Concepts and Techniques
• Role of a Business Analyst and Expectations during entire life-cycle of the project.
• Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies.
• SDLC Phases
• Business Analysis standard across major Industries like Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, etc.
• Introduction to BA

Part II – Requirement Gathering and Management.

• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
• Stakeholder interactions and other communications tools and techniques
• Elicitation Planning, Activities and Requirement Analysis
• Requirements Documentation (Functional Requirement Documents +
• Requirement Sign Off process
• Essential Requirement Management Tools - Traceability Matrix,....

Part III – Design, Analysis and Business Modeling

• GAP Analysis Exercises
• Use of MS Visio and other tools
• Intro to Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• USE Case (Details, Artifacts and Exercises)
• Modeling Tools
• Business Artifacts Exercises

Part IV - Business Analysis Essentials

• Concepts of Object Oriented Programming Techniques
• Fundamentals of Prototyping

All attendees will receive

Assignment after each module, Video recording of every session

Notes and study material for examples covered.

Access to the Training videos & Repository of Materials

This course is delivered as a highly interactive session, with extensive live examples. This course is Live Instructor led Online training delivered using Cisco Webex Meeting center Web and Audio Conferencing tool.