Business Analyst Workshop – Key Course Modules

Key Course Modules

IT Basics Understand the Foundations that Make Successful IT projects: IT Projects, Participants, Stakeholders
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Essentials Appreciate the key development approaches such as Waterfall, Iterative and Incremental Model and Agile / SCRUM Development.
Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) Benefits, Examples and Application to Business Modeling;
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) Representing Business Problems and Envisioning Feasible Solutions;
UML Deep Dive Master the Creation of UML Use Case, Activity and State Diagrams.

Requirement Techniques Requirement Fundamentals, Types (Functional and Non-Functional), Elicitation Techniques such as Joint Application Design (JAD)
Use Case Writing Articulating Functional Requirements and Scenarios using Main, Alternate and Exception Flows; Integrating Business Rules and Specifications;
Structured Query Language (SQL) Database, Table, Fundamental queries for data extraction and manipulation;
Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) Deciphering ERDs created by Development Team and verifying Business Rules are implemented accurately;
Testing Fundamentals Basic software testing types, approaches and principles of testing; Writing descriptive Test Cases;

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Introduction to Business Analysis

The BA Profession

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Success Factors
Roles and Responsibilities

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BA Tasks

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Elicit
Analyze
Document
Validate

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BA Tools

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Requirement Management, Business Modeling, Change Management, Repository/Version Management

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Project/SDLC

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Project and Team
SDLC - Introduction
RUP and Waterfall Methods - A Comparative Study
Key BA Responsibilities in RUP

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Requirements

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What is a Requirement?
Types of Requirements

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Business Modeling, Storyboarding

UML

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What is UML? (and isn't)
What is a model?
Why do we model?
Key UML Diagrams
UML models - An introduction and examples

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Use Case

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What is a Use Case?
Textual Use Case - An introduction and examples

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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD)

OOAD Background

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Programming Paradigms

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Objects and Classes

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What is an Object
Object - Purpose, Applications
What is a Class?
Class - Purpose, Applications

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Key OOAD Concepts

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Abstraction
Encapsulation
Inheritance
Polymorphism

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UML Use Case Models

Use Case Modeling Concepts

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What is a Use Case? What is the purpose?
Actors
Include and Extend Constructs
Directed and Undirected Associations
Generalization
Use Case models - Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

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Practical Modeling Session

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Airline Reservation System Case Study

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Hands-On Tool

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StarUML

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UML Activity Models

Activity Modeling Concepts

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What is an activity model? What is the purpose?
Initial and Final Nodes
Activity and Subactivity
Activity Transitions
Decisions and Guard Conditions
Branches and Merges
Fork and Join
Swimlanes
Alternate vs. Exception Flows
Activity models - Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

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Practical Modeling Session

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Banking System Case Study

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Hands-On Tool

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StarUML

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UML Statechart Modeling

Statechart Modeling Concepts

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What is a a statechart model? What is the purpose?

Initial and Final States

States, Substates and History States

State Transitions

Decisions and Guard Conditions

Concurrent Substates

Sequential Substates

Statechart models - Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

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Practical Modeling Session

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Online Credit Card System

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Hands-On Tool

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StarUML

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UML Class Modeling

Class Modeling Concepts

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What is a a class model? What is the purpose?
Association Relationship
Aggregation Relationship
Generalization Relationship
Dependency Relationship
Multiplicity
Cardinality
Shared Aggregation
Composite Aggregation
Class models - Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

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UML Sequence Modeling

Sequence Modeling Concepts

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What is a a sequence model? What is the purpose?
Objects
Lifelines
Actors
Focus of Control
Interaction
Messages
Guard conditions, "alt" construct
"opt" construct
"loop" construct
Sequence models - Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

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UML Physical Modeling

Component models
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Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

Package models

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Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

Deployment models

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Notation, Best Practices, Examples and Applications

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Text Use Cases

Use Cases Principles

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Writing Text Use Cases
What is a Use Case?
Use Case scenarios
Use Case Types
Textual Use Case - Format

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Actors

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Primary and Secondary Actors
Business Rules and Supplemental Specifications

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Writing Effective Use Cases

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Use Cases - Best Practices, Examples and Applications
How to identify Actors?
How to identify Use Cases?

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Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)

Entities, Attributes and Relationship

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Structured Query Language

Introduction to SQL

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SQL Database Table
SQL Queries

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SQL Data Manipulation

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Joining data from multiple tables

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INNER JOIN statement
LEFT JOIN statement
RIGHT JOIN statement
UNION statement

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Table Manipulations

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CREATE TABLE statement
ALTER, DROP, TRUNCATE TABLE statements

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SQL Functions

Aggregation Functions

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GROUP BY statement
HAVING statement

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Hands-On Tool

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Navicat SQLite

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Testing

Testing Principles

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What is Testing?
Testing Approach

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Testing Methods

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User Acceptance Testing

Test case

Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Requirement Management (DOORS)

DOORS structure

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Projects, Modules and Folders
Objects and Attributes
Objects Hierarchy and Components
Views

Tracking changes

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Baseline History
Edit modes

Object Structure Terminology

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Creating and Manipulating Objects in Hierarchy

Editing a module

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Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Version Control

Version Control Principles

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Why control versions?Lock-Modify-Unlock SolutionCopy-Modify-Merge Solution
Views
Check-out and Check-in process
History of File

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Microsoft VSS

Rational ClearCase

Hands-On Tool

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TortoiseSVN

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Software Change Request

Change Management Process

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Logging Defects
Creating Change Requests for new features and enhancements

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Managing status of the request

Rational ClearQuest

Hands-On Tool

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Atlassian JIRA

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Practical Assignment Tasks

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Airline Reservation Business Case - Creating a UML Use Case model
Car Rental System - Evaluating an Activity Model
Login Use Case - Creating a Textual Use Case
Banking System - Enhancing an existing Activity Model
Airline Reservation Business Case - Creating a UML Statechart model
Online Credit Card System - Creating end-to-end business models
Insurance System - Creating end-to-end business models

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Business Analyst Workshop – Key Course Modules

Key Course Modules

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