Career and Profession of Business Analysis
Business Analysis Foundation
- Instructor-led, Online
- Course Category: Business Analysis, Product Management
GBP
45
Instructor-led, Online
Duration: 2 hours
Course Code: TXV-BAF-3645
Skill Level: Beginners
Career and Profession of Business Analysis
Overview
Are you a seasoned professional, an aspirant, a novice or a graduate fresh out of college? Have you ever met the new-age, agile, tech-savvy Business Analysis professional? Do you know what it takes to be employable and marketable with the BA skills? How can you make a cut in the cut-throat competetive job market with readily-employable skills? Do you have the answers to any or all of the above questions? TEXAVI has the answers for these and many more such questions in your minds. Enrol now for an insightful journey into the amazing career and profession of business analysis!
Who can attend?
- Anybody with or without work experience
- IT professionals (eg., Developers, testers) considering a move to BA role
- Non-IT people who want to learn IT skills thinking of a career switch
- Graduates and university students who aspire to get into IT industry
- Students who have just passed their B. Tech, A-Levels or college studies
COURSE OUTLINE
- Overview and setting the context
- Definitions of business analysis
- Business analysis as your career
- Role(s) of a business analyst
- Responsibilities & key tasks of BA
- Value-add & benefits from a BA
- Summary
What will you learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the importance of understanding different perspectives with the parable of ‘the elephant and 6 blind-folded persons’
- Demonstrate the use of analysis in the 5 stages of software development life cycle
- Describe the problem domain and solution domain:
- Understanding the concepts vs. implementation
- Focus on What and why vs. focus on how
- Technology-independent vs. technology-dependent
- Platform-agnostic vs. Platform-specific modeling
- Elaborate on “the six-friends” of business analysts
- Define business analysis as per IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis)
- Differentiate between domain analyst (subject matter expert) and technical business analyst
- List the concepts and approaches as relevant to IIBA:
- Underlying competencies
- Key concepts
- Tasks
- Techniques
- Perspectives
- Knowledge areas
- Define business analysis as per BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT)
- List the concepts and principles according to the stages of ICAED approach of BCS:
- Investigate situation
- Consider perspectives
- Analyse needs
- Evaluate options
- Define requirements
- Explain the various forms, roles and levels of business analysis professional
- Recount the key points from listening to an experienced business analyst narrate “their experiences as BA”
- List and elaborate on the various roles and the focus areas of business analysis professionals:
- Technical (IT) business analyst
- Strategic business analyst
- Data analyst
- Process analyst
- User experience analyst
- Change manager/agile business analyst
- Describe what a typical business analyst does as part of their work day
- Explain the importance of thinking different perspectives for a BA professional
- Who – People
- Where – Context
- When – Scenarios
- What – Scope
- How – Solution
- Why – Motivations
- Explain the responsibilities and activities of business analysts based on their role
- Take the TEXAVI interactive test to determine which type of an analyst you are
- Recount the key points from listening to an experienced business analyst speak about “A day in the life of a BA”
What do you need?
There are no pre-requisites for this course. There is no need for any prior experience, working knowledge or awareness of software development or projects experience. The course is suitable for experienced professionals working in the industry or academia, aspirants and early stage professionals, as well as students in universities and colleges. Professionals and aspirants from technology, business, operations or sales are all welcome to explore and understand the power of Jira and collaborative working.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
24×7 access to TEXAVI’s high quality course content- Practical insights from real life IT projects
- Course completion certificate
- Case studies, examples and illustrations
- Interactive quizzes and challenges
- Job aids, resources and tools
- Access to TEXAVI’s collaborative digital platform
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Sample Course Video
TEXAVI Tests
Test Your Knowledge
Take the Texavi Tests and challenge yourself, simply click the below links and start the interactive quiz…
Trainer Profile
Your trainer for this course is Pardha Saradhi Mantravadi. Pardha is an experienced and well-qualified trainer, coach, mentor, influencer and thought leader…click below to view the complete trainer profile
Reviews
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‘Texavi conducted a one-day workshop for our Business Analysts. The session was filled with case studies and examples from real-life projects. It was a great value-add and participants had useful, actionable takeaways.’ – Mukund Sathe, Core Projects and Technologies
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‘The workshop was quite interesting. I found the exercises we did particularly valuable, as it was useful to discuss aspects with the others present, and to then feedback to the wider group.’ – Holly Sheahan, RSC
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‘I attended Texavi’s training on Agile Business Analysis and had a lot of takeaways from the session. Pardha’s effective presentation skills supported with context you can relate to, makes the entire experience exhilarating.’ – Abhijit Majumdar, Zensar Technologies
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‘Enjoyed the sessions and learnt loads of useful methods and techniques. Thank you very much for the very insightful and practical sessions.’ – Lisa Hayes, Astra Digital
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Texavi Toolkit
Team TEXAVI created relevant videos, podcasts, blog posts, white papers, posters and articles for your use. Check the below content out to understand more about career and profession of business analysis:
- Why is Business Analyst a coveted career? Watch TEXAVI’s video
- The many roles, flavours and variants of Business Analyst – Read the blog post
- What does a business analyst do? Watch the animation video
- Playbook on Business Analysis
- Survival kit for BA (6 best friends of a human being) – Scribble from the course
- BA and the World – Scribble from the course