Mastering the Business Analysis Process over the System Development Life Cycle

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Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Be conversant with the methodologies, concepts and terminology expected of an advanced BA
Be able to plan and perform the activities a BA is responsible for over the system development life cycle (SDLC)
Understand the Knowledge Areas (KAs) defined in BABOK 2 and how to apply them within an advanced BA role
Understand the salient characteristics of current practices in IT Service Management and software development and their relationship to BA practice
Know what questions to ask when over the course of a project
Be able to document requirements for an IT system, using current standards and approaches as specified in BABOK 2, including Use–Cases, BPMN, UML and Structured Analysis
Use state–of–the–art techniques to create requirements documentation that is complete, unambiguous, consistent, testable and easy to revise when business needs change
Be able to document business façades
Be able to model business processes (workflow)
Be able to document user requirements
Be able to design, review and document test cases
Know when and how to apply best practice tools and techniques towards the practice of business analysis
Perform structural and behavioral analysis on a business system
Map the behavioral model to the structural model
Understand what the developers do with the BA’s documentation