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Business Analysis Boot Camp
Summary:
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.Trainees facilitate requirements-gathering sessions and document the results over the course of a case-study project with an emphasis on the textual aspects of the documentation. Trainees learn state-of-the-art practices for gathering and documenting requirements based on the use case approach. The course covers what the facilitator needs to accomplish in each requirements-gathering session (goals, agenda, who to invite, artifacts, etc.) as the project progresses - starting from business use-case sessions that focus on the business context through to those that focus on user-IT interactions. Trainees also learn advanced techniques (extension, generalized and inclusion use cases) that result in requirements documentation that is easy to revise when business rules change.The course follows today’s most widely accepted method of requirements capture – the popular ‘use case’ approach. The clear style and organization of use cases makes them well-suited as a source of test cases and for communicating with both business stakeholders and developers. In addition, use cases are a central aspect of iterative development methodologies such as IBM’s RUP and Microsoft’s MSF.
Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience:
-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 -Systems Analysts and programmers interested in expanding their role into the business area. -IT Business Analysts -Project Leaders -Facilitators who will be leading requirements gathering sessions -Business Users who will be explaining business requirements to software developers -Systems Analysts expanding their role into the business realm.
Topics:
- The BA Role/ Interview Techniques
- Gathering Requirements with Use Cases
- Gathering Workflow and Complex Requirements
- Documenting Requirements for Legacy Systems using Structured Analysis
- Gathering Business Data Requirements
- Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Analysis for the BA
- The BA Role in Testing
- Project Management for the BA
- Introduction to Use Cases
- The Kick-off Meeting
- Analyze Business Use Cases
- Structure System Use Cases
- Elicit and document System Use Cases/ Context and Basic Flow
- Elicit and document Alternate and Exception Flows
- Document inclusion, extension and generalized use cases
- Link use cases to other project artifacts (documentation and models)
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Last Update: February 11, 2012
