BA Classes

BA Training Syllabus -

UNIT I – Requirement Gathering and Management.

1. Introduction to Business Analysis. (Lecture)

2. Role of a Business Analyst and Expectations. (Lecture)

3. Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies. (Lecture &Slides)
      • Water Fall Model.
      • Spiral Model.
      • Agile & Scrum.
      • Rational Unified Process (RUP)– Basics – What, Why and How

CLASS ACTIVITY – 1 - Create a Business Process & Identify Issues and Risks

4. Requirements Management. (Lecture &Slides)
      • What is a Requirement?
      • Types of Requirements.
      • Requirements Model.
      • How to Gather and Plan Requirements?
      • Planning Requirements for Design, Development and Testing.

CLASS ACTIVITY 2 - Requirements Gathering Session.

CLASS ACTIVITY 3 - GAP Analysis

5. Requirement Management Tool – Rational Requisite Pro. (Hand-On Class Exercise)
      • Creating Requirement Types
      • Creating Requirement in Documents
      • Creating Requirements Metrics (Traceability, Attribute, Traceability Tree)
      • Reporting Requirements with Rational SoDA. (DEMO)

6. Project Deliverables and Artifacts. (Slides)
      • Project Scope Document.
      • Business Requirement Document / Vision Document.
      • Functional Requirements Document.
      • USE CASES.
      • Storyboards
      • Business Rule Catalog
      • Creating Requirements Metrics (Traceability, Attribute, Tree)
      • Technical Design Specifications.

UNIT II – Design, Analysis and Business Modeling.

1. Unified Modeling Process
      • Business Use Case
      • System Use Case
      • Use Case Realization
      • Use Case Documentation

2. USE Case Components. (Lecture &Slides)
      • Actors.
      • Entity.
      • Relationships.
      • System Boundary.
      • USECASEs.
      • Sub System.
      • Preconditions, Triggers, Basic Flow, Alternate Flow, Exception Flow and Post – conditions.

CLASS ACTIVITY –4 - Write USECASE and Identify Dependencies using a Case Study

3. Unified Modeling Language (UML). (Lecture &Slides)
      • Class Diagram.
      • Use Case Diagram.
      • Sequence Diagram.
      • Activity Diagram.
      • Swim-lanes in an Activity Diagram
      • Collaboration Diagram.
      • State chart Diagram.

CLASS ACTIVITY – 5 - Create all types of Diagrams using a Case study.

4. Modeling Tool –
      • MS – Visio 2003. (DEMO & Exercises)
      • Rational Software Modeler. (DEMO)

5. Create Wire-frames using AXURE RP4.0 and create a working Prototype based on the UML Diagrams made in the Class - TAKE HOME GROUP Exercise

UNIT III – Business Analyst Support Topics.

1. Concepts of Object Oriented Programming Techniques. (Lecture &Slides)

2. Fundamentals of Prototyping. (Lecture &Slides)

3. Conducting a JAD Sessions. (Lecture &Slides)

CLASS ACTIVITY - 6 - JAD – BA, SMEs, QA.

4. Testing Methodologies, Testing Types and Test Tools.

      • Defect Resolution Process. (Lecture)
      • HP Quality Center. (DEMO) & Exercise

5. Introduction to Six Sigma Methodology. (Lecture & Slides & Exercise)

6. Business Process Modeling and Process Mapping. (DEMO) & Exercise

7. Basics of Database Management. (Lecture & Slides & Exercise)

8. Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) (DEMO) & Exercise

9. Introduction to Web Services – (Lecture &Slides)

      • IBM Websphere – JAVA based Architecture
      • XML – Dot.net Framework

10. Neuro Linguistic Programming. (Lecture &Exercise) Only available for On site location Class.

BA Training Class Information

At TEXAS IT TRAINING we offer two types of
BA Curriculums.

1. Onsite – In Class - at our Dallas location.
2. Online – Real-time Web based

All classes are weekend classes: -
Saturday and Sunday.

Our course is designed for 3 weeks of full contact training spanning 30 hours,
followed by , Course completion the "BA TEST", Resume defend, interview preparation
and mock interview.

We understand that launching one self on a project can require some assistance
therefore we also provide on job support advise and help with understanding your
project business process, requirements, deliverables and design sessions.

Most project support requests are serviced, in most cases within 24 hours and they can be communicated to us via phone or email at any time. There will always be someone
to save the day.

All Students enjoy the privilege of repeating classes for a period of 1 year.

All Training Martial is provided by us however they are some reference books we may advise you to buy either before the training or during the training.

Both online and in-class training employ the same syllabus, students from both class types can take either mode of training.

All Online Classes are Web Conferencing and Teleconferencing classes. You will require your laptop or desktop, phone and internet. Mobile users are advised to use a hands-free set as the classes last 5 hours, it can be tiring to hold a phone for that long time period.


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