Course structure:
Objective:Build foundational BA knowledge, cognitive skills, elicitation techniques, and Agile context for non-BA learners (40% Junior focus).
Skill Focus: Soft (50%), Functional (30%), Semi-Technical (20%) with 40% Junior, 30% Mid-Level, 30% Senior
Schedule: Saturday (3 hours), Sunday (3 hours).
Key Topics Covered :
Topics
- What is Business Analysis
- Who is a Business Analyst?
- AI Enhanced BA Career
- BA Directives
- Skills & Tools Mastery
- Understanding BA Key Terms
- Understanding AI in BA
- Prompt Engineering for BAs
- Tools: Research.
- Activities: Role in AI and IT Projects, discuss role boundaries. AI literacy and Prompt Engineering for BAs
Topics
- What is Need and Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis - RCA
- 5-Whys Technique
- Understanding Goals and Objective
- Solution Scoping
- Tools: draw.io, Lucid chart, AI tools
- Activities: Identify Needs, RCA report, defining Problem and Scope.
- Case Study : E-Commerce Account Payable Problem
Topics
- Introduction to Elicitation and Techniques
- Questionnaire
- Interviews
- Brainstroming
- Document Analysis
- Reverse Engineering
- Focus Groups
- Observations
- Workshop
- JAD
- Prototyping - Design
- Workflow Modeling - Design
- Interface Analysis - Design APIs - 5W-H
- Tools: Mindmapple, Draw.io, Lucid Chart.
- Activities: Identify Needs, RCA report, defining Problem and Scope.
- Takeaway: Elicitation skills
Topics
- Visual , System and Design thinking
- Understanding Domain vs Systems
- Introduction to Modeling and Techniques
- Introduction to DFD - Context Diagram
- How Create DFD Diagram - Hands-On
- Process Maps
- Swim Lane Diagram / Activity Diagrams
- UML- Use case Diagrams
- Tools: draw.io, Lucid Chart.
- Activities: Modeling workshop.
Topics
- Revisit Requirements and Designs life cycle
- What is Requirement and Lifecycle Management
- What is Requirements gathering - Discovery
- What Use case and Scenarios
- BRD and FRD documentation Workshop
- Tools: Confluence Wiki, Word, BRD documentation generation Tool.
- Activities: Requirements workshop, BRD documentation.
Topics
- Revisit Requirements and Designs life cycle in Agile
- What is User Story and Acceptance Criteria
- How to Write Requirements
- Requirements Characteristics and Design Quality
- How to Write Stories with GWT - Structure
- How to write Effective User Stories INVEST
- Prototyping
- NFR Analysis
- Tools: Quiz
- Takeaway: SDLC and Agile approaches.
Topics
- Revisit Requirements and Designs life cycle in Agile
- What is User Story and Acceptance Criteria
- How to Write Requirements
- Requirements Characteristics and Design Quality
- How to Write Stories with GWT - Structure
- How to write Effective User Stories INVEST
- Prototyping
- NFR Analysis
- Tools: JIRA, Pencil, User Story Generation and AI tools
- Activities: User Story Generation and Refinement.
Topics
- What is Data, Databases and Providers (MYSQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, ORACLE)
- What is SQL
- Understanding DDL, DML, DCL, TCL
- CREATE, UPDATE & DELETE Data
- SELECT & WHERE
- ORDER BY
- JOINs
- GROUP BY
- AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS
- HAVING
- SUBQUERIES
- Tools: draw.io MySQL Workbench tool.
- Activities: ER diagram and SQL Practice.
Topics
- What is System Integrations
- Understanding is HTTP protocol
- API Methods
- Paths, Routes and Params
- Understanding JSON
- Post with Body
- API Status Codes
- Tools: Open API tools
- Activities: Testing API's.
- Case Study : E-Commerce Account Payable Problem
Topics
- What is Data Analysis
- What Dashboarding
- Understanding Power BI
- Power Query
- Generating Dashboard
- Tools: Power BI.
- Activities: Dashboarding with Power BI.
- Domain : Account Payables
- Low-Code Tool: n8n
- Integration : Gmail, AI models and Google Sheets
- Tools: n8n, AI Models, Gmail, Google Sheets integration tools.
- Activities: Workshop.
- Takeaway: Hand-On Project Delivery.