The Business Analyst's Crash Course

    

Summary:
This is an intensive course covering all aspects of the Business Analyst role - from requirements gathering to testing. All major techniques - both Structured and Object-Oriented (OO) - are addressed in this course. Each trainee receives a hard copy of all course material as well as a Job Aids booklet, containing useful templates, examples, guidelines and glossary for use back on the job.

Duration:
2 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for entry-level IT Business Analysts and their managers, self-taught IT business analysts requiring a course that fills in the gaps and puts all the pieces together and systems analysts and programmers interested in expanding their role into the business area.

Topics:

• Brainstorming
• JAD (Joint Application Design)
• Business data modeling
• Entity Relationship Diagrams
• Use Case diagrams
• Work Flow Analysis
• Activity Diagrams
• Data Flow Diagrams
• Decision Tables
• Structured Testing principles and methods
• Structured Walkthroughs
• Black Box requirements-based testing including boundary value analysis
• Systems testing (Regression, volume, stress, usability, performance tests)
• Mapping Business Analysis tools to project development phases for
• Waterfall methodologies
• Iterative methodologies
• Object-Oriented (OO) tools for the Business Analyst, using UML 2
• Use cases, Class diagrams

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Last Update: May 18, 2013