IT Business Analysis – Online Course - latest syllabus from January 2023

IT Business Analysis is a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in
requirements management for a software project. Business Analysis ensures that the customer, end user,
and developers have a common understanding of software project requirements.

Our course, in general, is equipped with:

40+ hours of sessions

40+hours of assignments making it one end-to-end project implementation

20-30 hours of second real-time project implementation

Total duration of the course is for 100+ hours.

1. Introduction and Fundamentals 6. Requirements Elicitation

 Business Analyst – Who, What, Why  Principles, Techniques, Constraints, Challenges
 BA – qualities, skills, roles, responsibilities  Document Analysis
 Six Sigma, IIBA, CBAP, PMI, BCS, IREB Overview  Design Thinking, Requirements Workshops
 Software Development Life Cycle  Observation, Job Shadowing
 Methodologies – Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, RAD,  Models, Scenarios, Context Diagrams
Kanban, Lean, DevOps, Hybrid, etc.  UML - use case diagrams, activity diagrams
 Automation – Levels, Types, Technologies  Surveys and Questionnaire
 Interviewing
2. Enterprise Analysis  Focus Group Interviews
 Client Software – why, what, how, when, where  Brainstorming
 Gap Analysis, Project Scope  Reverse Engineering
 Product vs Service, Static vs Dynamic  Prototyping / Wire Frames
 Technical vs System  Requirements Walkthrough
 80/20 Rule, Moore’s Law  JAD – Joint Application Development

3. Aligning with BA Thought Process 7. Requirements Analysis

 Converting you into a Professional BA  Analysis – Classification, Prioritization, Validation
 Thinking, Talking, Writing like a BA  Requirements Sign Off
 Create your own project from scratch  Kick-Off Meetings
 Deliver 50+ pages FRD by end of the training  Sprint Planning/Review Meetings
 Process-oriented thought process  Scrum/Stand-up Meetings
 Scrum Artifacts – impediments, backlogs,
4. Requirement Process, Planning and Management burn downs, delta report, releases, mapping
 Understanding IT project hierarchy
 Requirements Process, Planning, Management 8. Requirements Documentation
 RAM / RACI Matrix  BRS, BRD, BSD, URS, URD, USD, FRS, FSD, FRD,
 Work Efforts & Estimations NFR, XFR, IR, UIR, UXR, SRS
 BA's responsibilities  Thumb Rules to follow at every stage
 BA's plan to feed into Project Plan  Rules, problems, use of terms, structure
 Structure, Grammar, and banned words
5. Requirements  Everyday mentorship to prepare all this on your own
 Requirements – Types, Levels, Characteristics
 Business Requirements 9. UML, UI, PM, Word Processing, Collaboration Tools
 User Stories / User Requirements  Help in working with all kinds of tools BA use
 System Requirements  UML tools - MS Visio, StarUML, LucidCharts, etc.
 Functional Requirements  UI tools - Pencil, Balsamiq, etc.
 Cross / Non Functional Requirements  PM Tools - JIRA, Microsoft Teams, etc.
 Implementation Requirements  Other tools – MS-Word, SharePoint
 UI / UX Requirements  Licenses – Free or Student’s License will be given
10. Requirements Management 14. Miscellaneous - discuss anything that has not
 RTM - Requirements Traceability Matrix been covered above and within the scope of BA job.
 Requirements Change Management
 Requirements Risk Management 15. Topic-wise study materials – supporting
 Impact Analysis documents for everyday topics and tasks done by BA.
 Conflicts Management
16. Student Portal – Life-time free online reference
library with 500+ resources.
11. Miscellaneous
 Versioning
17. Project Work - 2 complete IT project life cycles
 Repositories implementation
 Minutes of Meeting
 Weekly Status Reports 18. Certification - at the end of the course, a course
 Online Approvals completion certificate will be awarded on our company
name - BA Training School. This can be used for up to
12. Validation 40 PD units for any International Certification. If
 General Idea on how Testing Team works required, guidance will be provided to take any such
 Terminology used by Testing Team International Certifications.
 QA, QC, Software Testing
 Testing Strategy, Planning, Test Cases 19. Resume Help - From day one, discuss on making
 Types, Methods, Levels of Testing BA resume without using any face things.
 Defects Management
20. Interview Help - From day one, help with
interview questions, what kind of questions, how to
13. UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
defend them, how to prepare, etc.

Online Delivery Model

All the courses are conducted by an expert instructor. These live instructor-led-sessions will be delivered through
Internet via Google Meet with VOIP services. Normally you will be connected to audio using your computer’s
microphone and speakers, but a headset is recommended.

Trainer’s Profile
 20+ years of professional experience in IT industry
 Varied domain knowledge – you can ask for any domain and do the project in your own specified domain.
 Excellent working knowledge of most of the technologies specifically with Microsoft Technologies
 Microsoft Certified Professional
 Highest Degree – MBA
 10+ years of experience in training Business Analysis – both Internal & External trainees
 Provides everyday mentorship to ensure every student learn everything related to BA job
 Ready to share knowledge
 Apart from BA experience, trainer possess very good knowledge on Project Management, Six Sigma, Testing
 Discuss more real-time scenarios, create more troubles and make you troubleshoot them, build confidence
 Keen on helping students by going beyond few miles.
 Non-commercial – accept very limited registrations per batch so that focus on every individual efficiently
 Trainer-owned service – no dependency on external trainer, or blame on others. Single-point of contact
for everything. 100% guarantee for all the promises made in this document.