Module 1 Business Analysis Overview 

• What is Business Analysis?
• Importance of BA
• BA Roles
• Standardization and Adaptability

Module 2 Understand Requirements Analysis

• Importance of Requirements Analysis
• Get Stakeholder Feedback using Analysis
• Develop Requirements
• Use Analysis to Validate & Verify Stakeholders
• Modelling Techniques & Their Value in Analysis
• Location & Organizational models
• Data & State models
• Requirements Types
• Flow/Process models
• Use case models
• Analysis of Business Rules
• Verify & Validate Requirements
• Prioritize Requirements

Module 3 Validation & Acceptance of Solutions

• Methods of Testing & Non-Testing
• Identify defects
• Validation Purposes
• Prove compliance with requirements
• Test Cases & Suites
• Concepts of Structured Testing
• Testing Challenges
• BA’s role in Solution Validation (V Model)
• Accepting Solutions
• Project Closure

Module 4 Understand Requirements Planning

• BA’s Role in Planning Requirements
• Scope & Vision Document
• Requirements Types
• Overview of Stakeholders

Module 5 Life Cycle Models

• Waterfall & Agile
• Incremental
• Effects on Business Analysis

Module 6 Requirements Documentation

• Formal & Informal Documentation & the Level of Details
• Defects of Common Requirements Document
• Writing for Comprehension & Usability
• Formal Requirements Document Components
• Verification & Validation of Requirements
• Requirements closure

Module 7 Enterprise Analysis

• Enterprise Analysis: Definition & Causes
• A BA’s Role on the Enterprise Analysis Team
• Enterprise Analysis Steps
• About business needs
• SWOT analysis
• Root cause analysis techniques
• Determine the solution approach
• Evaluate capability gaps
• Solution scope Definition

Module 8 UML 2.0 Concepts

• Diagrams: Class, Components, Objects, and Profile
• Diagram of Composite Structure & Deployment
• Package & Activity diagram
• State machine diagram
• Use Case & Communication Diagram
• Diagrams of Interaction overview, sequence, and timing

Module 9 Basisc of BA

• Communication & Leadership Skills
• Problem-Solving Skills
• Business & IT Skills

Module 11 Requirements Elicitation

• Role of the BA in Requirements Elicitation
• Investigative & Iterative approach
• Techniques & Interviews
• Brainstorming & Observation
• Focus groups
• Prototype
• Requirements workshop: Meeting & JAD session
• Survey & Product trials
• Document & Business rules analysis
• Reverse Engineering

Module 13 BA Competencies

• Necessary Competencies of BA
• Competency Proficiency
• Analytical thinking & problem-solving
• Behavioural features
• Business skills
• Communication & Interaction skills

Module 14 BA Best Practices

• Knowledge of Software application
• Usage of Iterative Analysis
• Focus on improving the process
• Check-as-you-go
• Implement progressive elaboration
• Using the investigative approach
• Embrace traceability
• Improve communication with modelling
• Normalize BA with standardization

Module 15 Requirements Management & Communication

• Across the Project & Decommission
• Change Management
• Understand baseline
• Change Management Process Overview
• Change Authority Identification
• Traceability & Its Uses
• Requirements Attributes & Communication