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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Business Analysis

  • Defining Business Analysis
  • Duties and obligations of a Business Analyst
  • BA career trajectories and professional certifications

Grasping the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

  • Summary of SDLC models (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid)
  • The BA's involvement throughout the SDLC
  • Collaboration with developers, testers, and stakeholders

Examining the BABOK Framework

  • Overview of BABOK and its publisher
  • Knowledge domains and core concepts
  • Applying BABOK within actual project contexts

Categories of Requirements and Documentation

  • Distinguishing between functional and non-functional requirements
  • Drafting clear and verifiable requirements
  • Utilizing templates and recommended practices

Methods for Requirements Elicitation

  • Conducting stakeholder interviews and surveys
  • Running facilitated workshops and brainstorming sessions
  • Observation, document review, and prototyping

Requirements Validation and Traceability

  • Verifying and assessing requirements with stakeholders
  • Handling requirement changes
  • Traceability matrices and use case connections

Practical Activities and Role-Play

  • Mock elicitation sessions
  • Developing a sample requirements document
  • Group review and refinement

Conclusion and Future Steps

Requirements

  • Familiarity with fundamental business processes
  • Interest in IT initiatives and stakeholder engagement
  • No previous business analysis experience is necessary

Target Audience

  • Emerging or new business analysts
  • Project team members moving into analytical roles
  • Professionals engaged in requirements collection or documentation

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