Business Analysis and Project Management || In-Class || Live || Online

Business Analysis (BA) in software development is a crucial discipline that focuses on identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems. It involves analyzing processes, systems, and functions within an organization to improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability through the use of technology.

This is a complete business analysis program that covers your day-to-day job duties, managing CI/CD enhancements, and medium-to-complete projects in an agile environment.

Here are some key learning outcomes in the field of Business Analysis in software development:

1. Introduction to Business Analysis:

   • Definition and importance of Business Analysis.
   • Role of a Business Analyst in software development projects.
   • Key responsibilities and skills required for a Business Analyst.

2. Understanding Business Processes: Hand-on Project

   • Techniques for identifying, modelling, and documenting business processes.
   • Process mapping using tools like flowcharts, swim lane diagrams, and BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).

3. Requirement Elicitation and Management: Hand-on Project

   • Techniques for gathering requirements from stakeholders: mocks, workflows, initial brainstorming
   • Types of requirements (functional, non-functional, business, data, security, APIs,).
   • Requirement documentation and management using tools like Use Cases, User Stories, and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

4. Analysis and Documentation: Hand-on Project

   • Analyzing gathered requirements to identify gaps, conflicts, and inconsistencies.
   • Prioritizing requirements based on business value and feasibility.
   • Documenting requirements using standard templates and methodologies.

5. Software Development Methodologies:

   • Understanding various software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, etc.).
   • How Business Analysis fits into different development methodologies.
   • Agile techniques such as User Stories, Sprint Planning, and Backlog Refinement.

6. Stakeholder Management:

   • Identifying and analyzing stakeholders.
   • Techniques for effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders.
   • Managing stakeholder expectations and conflicts.

7. Requirement Analysis and Solution Design:

   • Analyzing requirements to derive functional and technical specifications.
   • Techniques for solution design, such as prototyping, wireframing, and data modeling.

8. Business Process Improvement:

   • Identifying opportunities for process improvement.
   • Business process reengineering and optimization techniques.
   • Measuring and monitoring process performance metrics.

9. Quality Assurance and Testing:

   • Understanding the role of a Business Analyst in quality assurance and testing.
   • Creating test cases, test plans, and test scenarios based on requirements.
   • Participating in user acceptance testing (UAT) and feedback gathering.

10. Change Management:

    • Understanding the impact of changes on business processes and systems.
    • Change management techniques for handling scope changes and managing project risks.
11. Release Management
    • Learn how releases are managed: minor/major, hot-fixes, patch, and prod-issues 

12. Tools and Techniques:

    • Familiarity with various BA tools such as Microsoft Visio, Enterprise Architect, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
    • Techniques for requirement gathering and analysis, such as interviews, workshops, surveys, and observation.

13. Soft Skills:

    • Communication skills for effective interaction with stakeholders.
    • Problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
    • Negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

Various job titles are popular in the market, they are:

1. Business Architect
2. Business System Analyst
3. Data Analyst
4. Enterprise Analyst
5. Management consultant
6. Process Analyst
7. Requirements Engineer
8. System Analyst

Skillset of BA:

1. Analytical skills
2. Business and Industry knowledge
3. Decision making
4. Facilitation
5. Communication skills
6. Creative and critical thinking
7. Leadership skills
8. Problem-solving
9. Technical awareness
10. Systems thinking
11. Familiarity with multiple projects and development methodologies

What is the duration of this course and the package?

• All sessions – Weekends
• Online or in-class
• Training on real-time projects + tools, resume preparation with 1-3 years of work experience, interview questions guidance, career tips, and a business reference for business analysis job

Tools: JIRA/Atlassian, Confluence, Plan-IT-Pooker,  SQL, Excel, and others

What you get:

• Complete training from basics to advanced
• Hands-on project experience
• 7 days a week coach connection
• Resume with experience: gap coverage
• Interview questions and answers
• Career coaching: from the job applications to settling to the jobs
• Industry work references
• Job placement assistance included

Testimonials – Students voice…

“This is a fantastic institute if someone wants to know and step into the IT industry. I generally never do the reviews, but the kind of knowledge and experience I got here at this institute was simply fantastic. Every topic covered here is exactly what is required and what is ongoing in the BA field” – Mrugesh Desai, 2018 graduate

“This Institution is a great place and the instructors are amazing in what they teach. You can get real-time experience in the technologies that the industry uses in today’s world. Worth the time to take the classes they offer.” -By Inshal Mohammad

“Institute of IT Training is a very good training institute for QA. It provides you with Hands-on experience on real-time projects. The Trainers from the Institute not only provide you with the best knowledge about QA/BA courses but also give you insight into how IT Companies work and give an understanding of Company Hierarchy. I strongly recommend IOFIT as the best place to learn QA programs.” By Gaurav Bains, a 2018 graduate

“Institute of IT Training is a perfect guideline and provides very good courses for getting an opportunity as a QA Analyst /Tester for both Manual and Automation. I have completed an advanced Test Automation Course from the Institute and it’s helping me to get a start-up job in Calgary. Also Getting help now to grow my “Professional NETWORK” (Very important to get a job). I am very positive now in my QA Career. Currently working as a QA Analyst in Calgary.” By Keshini Patel, 2016 graduate

“Real-time hands-on experience provided by a great and knowledgeable BA instructor (Priyanka)” – By Imane El-Hajj