Business Analyst

Business Analyst with Data Modelling Course Curriculum

This course aims to provide participants with the solid experience and know-how to
Work as Business Analyst in various domains like Banking, HealthCare,Finance,Product.
This course has been developed for real-world scenarios with in-depth explanations .IIBA certification guidance.

Who is Business Analyst?

Business Analyst is a new-economy job in a company that acts as a liaison between business people who have a business problem and technology people who know how to create automated solutions.
Business Analysts are responsible for identifying business needs, requirements development and requirements management. Specifically, the Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, validates and documents business, organizational and/or operational requirements.
The Business Analyst is a key facilitator within an organization, acting as a bridge between the client, stakeholders and the solutions team.

What is Business Analysis?

Business Analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies and operations of an organization, and recommend solutions that enables the organization to achieve its goals.

Many business analysts often perform several of these roles, and therefore this position is best filled by an individual with a broad skill set.

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.

The skills associated with business analysis are one of the hottest priorities for IT human resource investment. Learn what the Business Analyst position is, why it's important and how Business Analysis training from “ME” can help you to build the "Skills Bridge" to cross the chasm between Business and IT.
This training will help you to become a successful Business Analyst irrespective of your working domain.

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
Requirement Engineering
What is Requirement Engineering
Types of Requirements
Problems with Requirement Practices
Business Analysis Disciplines
Business Analysis Techniques
--PESTEL, SWOT, HEPTALYSIS, MOST, SCRS, MOSCOW etc…
Different Requirement Engineering Tasks
Processes to be followed to gather requirements
Typical questions to be asked to the business team while gathering requirements
Change management
Feasibility Analysis /Risk Analysis
Configuration management
Requirement Document Template
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

SDLC
What is a Software project
What is SDLC
Different phases of SDLC
Models of SDLC
Waterfall Model
Agile Model
Scrum
DSDM
RAD
Spiral
Prototype Model
scrum
How as a BA we get involved in different phases of SDLC
-----Project --
Business Documents:

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
Banking SRS,Healthcare SRS,ERP SRS,Airline SRS..etc..
FRD
MRD
PRD

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 Traceability Matrix
Purpose of Traceability
Significance of Traceability
What is RTM
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 etc..)
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
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
In-depth 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
 SQL Server 2012 imp concepts for BA
UML
What is UML
Why it is used
UML Diagrams (Activity, Use Case)
Domain
HIPPA
BASEL 2
HL7
USA HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY STANDARDS
INSURANCE
RETAIL
BANKING
FINANCIAL
Description about Domain :
Loan origination (Mention all the list of vendors e.g. Mysis, LIS, FIS - Fedility Information Services, Fiserv, Credit Check - Freddie Mac Risk Indicator Modules, FICA, Experian, Mention the work flow process on the enterprise applications etc).

financial Services - use case on Fixed Income, face values, issue dates, how calculation works, NPV, IRR - calcualtions

Online banking - 
* Application Platform
* OLB Platform - Account Summary, eBanking, Enrollment, Activation
Money Movement - Bill Pay, P2P, Transfers, Payments
Vendors - Misys, Corelian Voyager, Fiserv

Core Banking - use default

Mobile banking - MEAP
Vendors: Fiserv Mobility (USBank), Kony (Capital ONe), ClairMail (M&TBank), SAP Sybase ()

Heath care - ICD 10, ICD 11, PPO, PMO, HIPPA, 
EDI - 270, 271 Transactions, 

Insurance -
Life Insurance - Lab, Underwriting, Auctuary, Agenets, Customer - T&C - Policy Issued
Health Insurance

Projects:
Banking
Insurance
HealthCare
FMCG

Conclusion
Certification guidance and Support on IIBA syllabus
Hundreds of IIBA Questions & Answers
Common BA questions asked in an interview
How to answer the interview questions
Mock Interview