• 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 Re-Engineering & Re-Design

• Business Process Automation, Disinter mediation and Re-intermediation

• 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

• Managing Internal stakeholders

• Preparing Stakeholder map through Excel

• 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

• CRUD

• RA: The Business Analyst Tasks

• Prioritize Requirements

• Specify and Model Requirements

• Define Assumption and Constraints

• Verify Requirements

• Validate Requirements                                                                                                                       

• Creating Project Documents: BRD, SRS, FRD/NFRD, RFP and etc.

• 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

• Synchron & Asynchron process                                                                                                                         

• Live Process monitoring through comunda

• UML Diagrams – UML Structure and UML Behavior Diagrams

• Important UML Diagrams for IT Business Analysts

• Overview of UML Structure Diagrams

• Activity Diagrams

• Use Case Diagrams

• Sequence Diagrams

• Other UML Diagrams            

• 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 (INVEST)

• Acceptance Criteria (GHERKIN, Checklist, and Custom for organizational culture)                                                                                                                     

•Story Points and Estimation on SCRUM projects

• Introduction to Product Development (concepts, product vs project, stages of the life cycle)

• Ideation & Market Research (customer needs, competitor analysis, value proposition)

• Planning & Design (roadmaps, MLP/MMP, prototyping)

• Development & Testing (iteration cycles)

• Launch & Go-to-Market (release planning, marketing alignment, stakeholder communication)

• Growth, Maintenance & End-of-Life (continuous improvement, scaling, sunsetting products)

• SQL Foundations & Analyst Mindset - Core SELECT/WHERE/ORDER, NULLs, CASE

• Joins, Aggregation & Set Logic - INNER/LEFT/EXISTS, GROUP BY/HAVING, conditional sums

• Dates, Text, Cleaning, Subqueries & CTEs 

• Window Functions & Analytical SQL - RANK/ROW_NUMBER/LAG, rolling metrics, top-N per group

• SQL Interview Prep (BA Track) 

• Agile Testing Basics

• How to use JIRA

• White-Box Techniques

• API Testing basics

• API Testing using Postman                                                                                           

• Performance Testing basic concepts 

• Introduction to APIs: Understanding APIs | API Architecture and Components | API Standards and Protocols

• API Specification Fundamentals: Introduction to API Specification | OpenAPI Specification (OAS) | Practical Exercise: Writing an OpenAPI Specification

• API Request and Response Handling: Constructing API Requests | Processing API Responses | Error Handling and Validation

• API Security and Best Practices: API Security Fundamentals | Best Practices in API Design | Practical Exercise: Implementing API Security Measures

• Tools and Technologies for API Management: API Development Tools | API Documentation and Mocking | API Monitoring and Analytics

• Monolithic architecture

• Microservice arcitecture

• Microfrontend

• Single-page application architecture

• TOGAF introduction

• Database design

• Architecture diagramming  

• Messaging (Kafka & Rabbit MQ)                                                                                   

• Event based development

• Authorization

• Information Security for BA 

• Foundations of AI & RPA in Business (AI vs RPA, use cases, business value, risks & ethics)

• Business Analyst’s Role in Automation (process discovery, requirements for automation, AS-IS/TO-BE, stakeholder management)

• Tools & Hands-on Practice (UiPath, Power Automate, AI Builder, ChatGPT for requirements/testing, Process Mining)

• UX/UI Design

• Camunda 

• BA Career Path 

• BA Certification 

• Release management

• Agile

• Risk management        

• Post-release life cycle        

• HR Interview      

• Defence in following topics: Banking, FinTech, Insurance, Investment, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, GovTech