Business Analysis

Business Analysis Course Content

Introduction

• 1. Introduction to Business Analysis
• 2. Who is Business Analyst?
• 3. Why become a Business Analyst?
• 4. Characteristics of Business Analyst
• 5. Role of Business Analyst

Definition of Industry abbreviations:

• 1. Business Requirement Document (BRD)
• 2. Functional Requirement Document (FRD)
• 3. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 4. Joint Application Development Session (JAD Session)
• 5. User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• 6. High Level requirements (HLR)

SDLC:

• 1. Introduction of SDLC
• 2. Need of a BA in SDLC
• 3. Various stages of SDLC
• 4. Involvement of BA in SDLC
• 5. Role of BA in SDLC

Domain Orientation:

• 1. Introduction to Wealth Management
• 2. Definition of Wealth Management
• 3. Need to save money
• 4. Personal financing
• 5. Investment Banking/ Private wealth
• 6. Investment fundamentals
• 7. Equity, Debt and other financial instruments
• 8. Wealth Management life cycle
• 9. Various activities performed by typical wealth management firm
• 10. Onboarding of client
• 11. Risk profile analysis
• 12. Risk profile questionnaire
• 13. Asset allocation
• 14. Modeling
• 15. Dynamic models
• 16. Trading
• 17. Order management
• 18. Back office operations
• 19. Management fee
• 20. AUM based fee

Requirement Gathering:

• 1. Client interaction
• 2. Mock client interaction session
• 3. Requirement gathering from the client

Business Requirement Document:

• 1. Introduction to Business Requirement Document
• 2. Various sections to be present in BRD
• 3. BRD Template
• 4. Sample BRD
• 5. Understanding BRD syntax
• 6. How to create a Business Requirement Document?
• 7. Understanding the requirement
• 8. BRD Review

Functional Specification design Document (FSD) :

• 1. Introduction to FSD
• 2. Various sections to be present in FSD
• 3. FSD Template
• 4. Sample FSD
• 5. Understanding FSD syntax
• 6. How to create a FSD?
• 7. Understanding the requirement
• 8. FSD Review.

Software Engineering Processes:

• 1. Waterfall Model
• 2. Agile model
• 3. Comparison between waterfall and agile

Use case:

• 1. What are Use Case and Use Case Narrative?
• 2. Relationship between Use Cases
• 3. How to write Use Cases?
• 4. Use Case Narrative Flows
• 5. Primary Flow
• 6. Alternative Flow
• 7. Exceptional Flow

Unified Modeling language:

• 1. Introduction of UML
• 2. What are Behavioral and Structural Diagrams?
• 3. UML Diagrams Units
• 4. How to make Use Case Diagram

Software Testing:

• 1. Introduction of Software Testing
• 2. Role of BA in Testing
• 3. Creating Test Cases
• 4. Manual and Automation Testing method
• 5. Testing Types
• 6. Functional Testing
• 7. GUI and Unit Testing
• 8. Black Box Testing
• 9. Performance Testing
• 10. User Acceptance Testing

Industry Tools:

• 1. MS Visio
• 2. Fundamentals of JIRA
• 3. Fundamentals of JAMA
• 4. Fundamentals of HP ALM
• 5. Fundamentals of Confluence

Case Studies

Mock Interview