Business Analyst Training

Upon the successful completion of this business analyst certification training you will gain knowledge of below concepts:

• Basics of Business Analytics
• Multiple components of Business Analytics
• Data gathering tools in Business Analytics
• Requirement gathering and strategy development 
• Documentation and presenting the information 
• Information management. 

Following are the job roles who can advance in their career by learning this on-demand skill:

• Business Professionals
• Solution Architects
• Project Managers
• System Analysts
• Developers

You need not to possess knowledge of any other skill to join the Business Analyst training.

• Business Analysts are key professionals in any organization and help the business to grow to the next level. 
• Business Analyst pays a key role in connecting the technical teams and business teams. 
• According to indeed.com, the average salary received by a Business Analyst professional is $79154 per annum.  

Yes, upon the successful completion of the Business Analyst training you will receive the course completion certificate from SK Trainings. This certificate is valid across all the top MNCs and simplifies your job search process.

Yes, you will get all assistance from the Business Analysts experts to clear your certification exam. Moreover, you will be provided with the experts designed Business Analysts course material to clear your certification exam.

• SDLC(Software Development Life Cycle)-Phases:
• Enterprise planning
• Designing phase
• Development phase
• Testing phase
• Installation phase
• Maintenance phase
• Role of a BA in each phase

• SDLC-Methodologies and Models
• Sequential Methodology/Water fall model
• Iterative methodology/RUP
• Evolutionary Methodology/spiral model/prototyping model
  • What are prototypes and different types
  • Difference between a wireframe, prototype and mockup
• Agile Methodology/XP or Scrum
• Difference between method and model

• 6-knowledge Areas or Stages in Business Analysis:
• Enterprise Analysis (Parito analysis, fish bone analysis, SWOT analysis, GAP analysis, Feasibility study, Business case writing)
• Requirement Planning and Management(RACI-Responsible, accounted, consulted and informed)
• Requirement Elicitation or gathering(Techniques of gathering requirements)
• Requirement Communication
• Requirement Documentation
• Solution assessment and validation.

• Requirements and types.
• Guide lines for good requirements.
• Parameters of good requirement.
• What is requirement gathering?
• How to conduct requirement gathering session-phases.
• Mistakes and challenges associated with requirement gathering.

• Types of Documents prepared by a BA and their Standards(BRD & SRS Documents)
• Contents of SRS & BRD documents
• Preparation of SOW.
• SOW-contents.
• RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).

• OOPS concepts
• Elements of OOPS
• Application of OOPS
• MVC architecture
• 2-tier & 3-tier architecture.

• UML introduction and diagrams
• Use case Diagrams-Relationships in Use case Diagrams.
• Extend and Include Functions.
• Contents of Use Case description Documents
• Sequence Diagrams(Brief Introduction)
• Activity Diagrams(Brief Introduction)
• Software’s used for preparing UML diagrams, Documentation and Prototypes

• What is BPM(Business Process Modeling)
• RUP(Rational Unified Processing)-phases
• Documents prepared in RUP
• RAD(Rapid Application Development)
• Stages in RAD.

• Types of servers
• Development Server.
• UAT server.
• How to do UAT testing and important points to be followed while doing UAT testing
• Production server
• Role of BA in each server.

• Testing-areas of testing
• Types of Testing
• Introduction to QA Methodology
• Role of BA in Testing
• Creating Test Plans
• Creating Test Cases
• Different Testing Methods
• Functional and Regression testing
• White Box and Black Box Testing
• Positive and Negative Testing
• GUI and Unit Testing
• User Acceptance Testing

• Change Management Process
• Reasons for requirement changes
• Change request
• Change of scope
• Acceptable changes
• How to handle Change request
• Important points to be considered while handling CR

• How Project is initiated.
• Software bidding process.
• Basic knowledge of project includes
• BA proportion in project
• Project types
• Types of payment for projects
• Mails management
• Project standards
• Time sheets
• Budget allocation
• Gantt charts
• Project Milestone and pricing.
• Company Approach on project.
• Reasons for project failure.
• Risk Analysis and Management.

• Resume Preparation Tips
• Sample Resumes

• Interview Preparation Tips
• Sample Interview Questions
• How to clear an Interview.

A System Requirements Specification (SRS) or a Software Requirements Specification is a document or set of documents that describe the features of a system or software application. It includes a variety of elements which define the intended functionality required by the stakeholders and customer to satisfy the end users.

In addition to that, an SRS provides a high-level idea of the system and its behavior, the main supported business processes, the assumptions and the key performance parameters for the system. The key elements of an SRS are:

• Scope of Work
• Functional Requirements
• Non-Functional Requirements
• Dependencies
• Data Model
• Assumptions
• Constraints
• Acceptance Criteria

A use case is a diagrammatic representation of a system which describes how a user uses a system to accomplish a goal. It is an integral part of software engineering and software modelling technique which defines the targeted features and the resolution of any possible errors which a user may encounter.

Scope creep, or requirement creep is a term that relates to the uncontrolled changes or deviation in the project’s scope within the same resource range for example within same schedule and budget of the project. It’s an indication of poor project management and a viable risk to a project. Some of the possible causes of scope creep are:

• Poor communication between the project’s stakeholders
• Improper documentation of the project’s requirements Scope creep could be avoided by:
• Clear documentation about the project scope
• Following proper change management
• Prior intimation about the effects of the changes to the associated parties
• Proper documentation of the new requirements in the project log
• Refrain from Gold Plating which means adding extra features to the existing functionalities

Gap Analysis is a technique to analyze the gap between the existing system and functionalities, and the targeted system. Here gap means the amount of task or change that may be required to get the intended result. It’s a performance level comparison between the present and the proposed functionalities.

Requirement elicitation is the process of requirement gathering from stakeholders, users, and customers by conducting meetings, questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming prototyping, sessions, etc.

Non-functional requirements represent the performance level characteristics like how fast it can respond, how smooth is a user interface, security, etc. of the application under development (AUD).

No functional requirements are captured in the SRS document in its designated section.

We can measure the quality of a requirement using SMART rule. As per this rule, a good quality requirement should be:
Specific: The requirement should be specific and could be documented properly
Measurable: Different parameters can measure the success criteria of the requirement
Attainable: The requirement should be feasible within the scope of the given resources
Relevant: The requirement must be in line with the project’s business case
Timely: The requirement should be communicated early in the project lifecycle

It is an alternative solution or activity in a use case that should be followed in case of any failure in the system.

An activity diagram is a visual representation of the workflow of a business use case. This diagram shows various activities that take place in an organization in different departments like HR, Sales, Accounts, etc. The activity diagram highlights the differences in the departments.

The important elements in Activity diagram are initial nodes, activities, control flows, decisions, a fork, guard conditions, join and end nodes.

Some of the best practices to write a use case are as follows:

• To become a valid use case, the use case must provide some value back to the actor or stakeholder.
• The functional and non-functional requirements must be captured appropriately in the use case.
• The use case must have one or more alternate flow along with the main flow.
• The use case should only describe what the system does and not how it is done which means it will not describe the design. It will act as a black box from the viewpoint of an actor.
• The use case should not have any, i.e. it should be stand alone.

Yes. Because a business analyst understands the overall system requirements and challenges associated with it very well. Hence, he can be instrumental during the testing phase to run it appropriately and resolve any system related query.

Pareto Analysis which is also known as 80/20 rule is a decision-making technique. It is a useful technique for defect resolution and quality control. As per this analysis rule, 20 % causes create 80 % effects in a system, which is why it is named as 80/20 rule.

Kano Analysis is used to analyze a system regarding its requirements to identify its impact on customers’ satisfaction.

There are mainly four types of gap –

• Performance Gap – The difference between expected performance and the actual performance
• Product/Market Gap – The gap between budgeted sales and actual sales is termed as product/market gap
• Profit Gap – The variance between a targeted and actual profit of the company.
• Manpower Gap – The gap between the required number and quality of workforce and actual strength in the organization

We can conclude that all the requirements are gathered only when –

• It is validated and approved by the business users.
• The requirements are appropriately aligned with the project’s business requirements.
• The requirements can be implemented with the available resources.
• All the key business stakeholders are aligned with the elicited requirements.

Gaining domain knowledge and providing an analytical solution are the two major criteria of a business analyst. Hence, during actual implementation of a requirement or use case a business analyst can help to resolve many business strategies related problems that may arise during the implementation stage. On the contrary, they can learn from the problems which may help them to provide the solution in similar scenarios and also help to gain their domain knowledge.

Requirement elicitation is the process to collect all the requirements related to a system from the end users, customers, and stakeholders. As per the BABOK guide, there are nine methods which can be used as part of requirement elicitation process, and these are:

• Brainstorming
• Interviews
• Observation
• Document Analysis
• Focus Groups
• Requirements Workshops
• Interface Analysis
• Survey or Questionnaire
• Prototyping

Yes, because the role of a Business analyst is extremely beneficial from the kick-off to the implementation of a project. Here are the top 5 reasons:

• During the project kick-off session, there are high possibilities that some technical queries come up from stakeholder and clients. As we don’t involve the technical project team during this phase and immediate answering is essential, a business analyst may play a pivotal role to answer those queries.
• The next phase after the kick-off session essentially involves some gap analysis, business process analysis, documentation, SOW review, project scheduling and of course preparing requirement specification documents.
• During the development and testing phase, a business analyst can play a significant role to resolve any requirement related queries from the project teams. Besides that, he can validate whether the requirements are correctly implemented and tested considering different functional and non-functional scenarios.
• In a waterfall model, new requirement or modification of requirements can be asked from stakeholder considering changing business needs. In this case business analyst is the person who can handle this change request with proper validation and analysis

Process design is a way that helps a business to analyze the challenges in business and to find an effective solution for those. Through Process design workflows are created to get the best possible outcome in the shortest time.

Agile Manifesto is a software guide about the Agile development principles which ensure iterative solutions.