Detailed Course Content
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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- Chen ERD
- Crow's Foot ERD
- Relationships - cardinality
- Relationships - optional vs. mandatory
- Relationships - recursive
- How to interpret an ERD
- ERDs and Databases
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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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- SQL Data Definition
- The SQL SELECT Statement
- DISTINCT clause
- WHERE clause
- LIKE function
- INSERT INTO statement
- UPDATE statement
- Primary key
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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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- Testing Types
- Unit / Integration Testing
- Smoke / System Testing
- Regression / Stress Testing
- Performance / Automated testing
- Whole Life Cycle Testing
- Black Box Testing
- White Box Testing
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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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- Creating Links
- Formatting Text
- Spell Check, Undo
- Managing objects view - Sort
- Managing objects view - Filter
- Go To Object
- Saving the Current View
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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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