Program

IT Business Analyst

IT Business Analysts are responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources within an enterprise, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders. The business analyst is responsible for eliciting the actual needs of stakeholders - which frequently involves investigating and clarifying their expressed desires - in order to determine underlying issues and causes.

Our course is designed for beginners who want to understand enterprise problems and goals, analyze needs and solutions, devise strategies, drive change, and facilitate stakeholder collaboration in any IT project. The tuition fee for the specialty IT Business Analyst is 1250 AZN.

Application to the program is currently not active
Start date

May 2022

Duration

2,5 month

Group size

25-30 students

Schedule

Wednesday from 19:00 to 22:00; Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00

Admission requirements
Expectation

Working experience in the analytics or customer service role and soft skills

Language skills

Knowledge of English at least Intermediate level

Requirement

Availability of a personal laptop or computer

Age

18 years and older

Upon the course completion you will::

Main principles of Business analysis

Requirement elicitation, analyse, and prioritaziton

Business process analysis, planning, and modelling

Foundation of Project management (Traditional, Agile)

Software testing tailored for Business Analyst

Technical knowledge (Software architecture, SQL, Database, UI/UX Design, Software Tools)

Program

IT Business Analyst
16

Number of modules

  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Software Development Methodologies – Water Fall, Iterative, Agile, etc.
  • What is business analysis?
  • The career path into business analysis
  • What is a Business Process
  • Critical Analysis of a Business Process
  • Business Process Mapping & Flow charting
  • As Is – To Be Analysis For a Business Process
  • Business Process Mapping and Modelling Frameworks
  • Business Process Mapping and Modelling Software
  • Business Process Re-Engineering & Re-Design
  • Business Process Automation, Disinter mediation and Re-intermediation
  • What is a Requirement
  • Attributes of Requirements (SMART)
  • Importance of Requirements for IT Projects
  • Functional and Non Functional Requirements
  • Overview of Requirements Engineering and Management
  • Business Process Re-Engineering & Re-Design
  • Important Requirement Process Steps : Elicitation, Analysis, Documentation, Validation, Management
  • Requirement Software Companies - Task management systems
  • RA : The Business Analyst Tasks
  • Prioritize Requirements
  • Specify and Model Requirements
  • Define Assumption and Constraints
  • Verify Requirements
  • Validate Requirements
  • BR document
  • Scope document
  • Communication Skills - Foundations of Communication
  • Communication Skills - The 4 building blocks (People, Message, Context, and Listening)
  • Communication Skills - Common situtations (Social settings, Meetings, Email, Explanations, Advise
  • Communication Skills - Challenging situtations (Pitch new ideas, Making an ask, When you are off guard, Criticism at work, Presenting up)
  • Communication Skills - Communication within Teams
  • Communication Skills - Communicating with your Colleagues and Supervisors
  • Leadership Skills - What is a Leader?
  • Leadership Skills - Motivation (Maslow, The management potato, Four types of people)
  • Leadership Skills - How much control should you keep?
  • Leadership Skills - Delegating (Objections to delegating, Cushion story)
  • Leadership Skills - People (What if someone lets you down, Options for planning and doing, Deciding your grip)
  • Conflict Management Skills - Understanding each other (The four goals of conflict conversation)
  • Conflict Management Skills - Listening in a disarming way \ Speaking so you are understood
    Conflict Management Skills - Negotiating and Making a Commitment
  • Stakeholder Definition
  • Importance of Stakeholder ​
  • Interview with Stakeholder
  • Stakeholder Identification – Onion Diagram
  • Stakeholder Identification – Wheel
  • Stakeholder Classification – Power Influence Matrix
  • Stakeholder Engagement Techniques – Power/Influence Vs Interest
  • Stakeholder RACI Chart, its preparation through Visio
  • Stake Holder Personal
  • Stakeholder Alignment and Sponsorship
  • Managing Internal stakeholders
  • ​Preparing Stakeholder map through Excel
  • History of UML , its founding fathers and role of OMG (Object Management Group)
  • UML Diagrams –UML Structure and UML Behavior Diagrams
  • Important UML Diagrams for IT Business Analysts
  • Overview of UML Structure Diagrams
  • Class Diagrams
  • Activity Diagrams
  • Use Case Diagrams
  • Sequence Diagrams
  • Other UML Diagrams
  • Component Diagram

  • What is BPMN
  • Origin of BPMN -BPMI (Business Process Management Institute) and OMG (Object Management Group)
  • BPMN Notations
  • Types of Process Modelling – Process Maps, Models, Descriptions
  • BPMN Elements : Flow Objects, Data, Swim Lanes, Connecting Objects, Artifacts
  • Cross functional diogram
  • Live Process monitoring through comunda

  • Plan the Business Analysis Approach
  • Plan Stakeholder Engagement
  • Plan Business Analysis Governance
  • Plan Business Analysis Information Management
  • Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
  • Plan Requirements Management Process
  • Manage Business Analysis Performance

  • Why collaboration is key
  • Where the roles overlap
  • Estimating and planning
  • Communication
  • Risk management
  • Scope management and change
  • Change request management

  • UX Questionnaire
  • UX Project Plan
  • Listening Tour
  • Opportunity Workshop
  • Project Brief
  • Strategy Workshop
  • Guerilla User Research
  • Proto-Personas
  • Heuristic Markup
  • Comparative Assessment
  • Design Principles
  • Sketching
  • Task Flows
  • Wireframes
  • Agile Software Development – An Overview
  • Agile Manifesto and Philosophy
  • Agile Methodology
  • Agile Software Development Lifecycle
  • Scrum
  • Managing Sprint Planning, Daily SCRUM, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospectives
  • Three Roles in Scrum : Scum Master, Product Owner and Development Team
  • Preparing Product Backlog, Sprint Burn Down Charts
  • Preparing Agile Project Charter
  • Xterme Programming, Kanban
  • Writing User Stories
  • Story Points and Estimation on SCRUM projects

  • Database concepts and the 3rd Normal Form, Primary Key, Foreign Key and Database design
  • SQL Data Definition Language Statements : Create, Alter and Drop
  • SQL Data Manipulation Language Statements : Insert, Update and Delete
  • SQL Data Query Language : Select
  • SQL DCL : Grant and Revoke
  • SQL TCL Commit, Savepoint, Rollback
  • Basic DBA concepts

  • Systems architecture | Rest, SOAP, JSON, XML, XSD REST API design
  • API check tools

  • Software Testing and its importance
  • Black Box, Box and and Grey Box Testing
  • Manual and Automation Testing
  • Automation Testing Tools : Silk, Load runner
  • Successful User Acceptance Testing for the IT Business Analyst
  • Software Testing at the client site for every release
  • Managing client / development team relationship under environments where a release has failed

Module 01: Tools

  • MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint
  • Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Trello
  • ClickUp, Meister Task, Monday

Module 02:  Presentation skills

Module 03:  BA Career , BA public profile

  • Linkedin profil -lərin redaktə edilməsi;
  • Biznes analitikası vakansiyasına uyğun cv -lərin hazırlanması;
  • Özünü təqdimetmə qabiliyyətinin formalaşdırılması
  • Biznes analitikası vakansiyasına uyğun müsahibəyə hazırlıq
  • What is entrepreneurship?
  • What is startup?
  • Ideation and team formation
  • Market research
  • Building the right product
  • Idea/product presentation