online | on-demand | in-class virginia / chicago

IT Full Lifecycle

TRAINING
MENTORING
Business Analysis
Course Brochure
CONSULTING
STAFFING

Requirements Inc. is a training, consulting and IT solutions provider with focus on business analysis and requirement gath-
ering functions in the systems delivery process. We provide 'mid-sourced IT solutions' where our clients benefit from con-
ducting analysis and requirements elicitation on-site and the cost benefits of developing and testing off-shore. Learn more
about our consulting services.

We provide the following services:

 Business Analysis Training
 Corporate Training
 Course Development
 Professional Mentoring
 Project Incubation to adopt Best Practices
 Software Development
 User Acceptance Testing

We support software and projects from ideas to implementations.

requirements inc
Ideas to implementations

training  mentoring  consulting  staffing

phone 703 468 1921  fax 866 610 1921  batraining@requirementsinc.com

requirementsinc.com
batr aining@r equi r em entsi nc. com
phone 703. 468. 1921 fax 866. 610. 1921
 Full Lifecycle 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS 3 DOCUMENTING FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

IT Business
GATHERING REQUIREMENTS FOR SOFTWARE WRITING EFFECTIVE DETAILED REQUIREMENTS
How to Elicit, Analyze, Document and Validate

Analysis
Use Cases, Business Rules and Supplemental Specs
Requirements IN-C LAS S F ACE TO FA CE
• Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
• Perspective to the BA discipline – Roles, skills and job functions Northern VA
• Primary and Secondary Actors
• IT projects Software Engineering 101 – Methodologies, Princi- Chicago, IL
• Business Use Cases (BUCs), Application Use Cases (AUCs) and System Use
Course Brochure ples and Practices Cases (SUCs)
• Group activity on software engineering — Waterfall vs. RUP • Identifying the right use cases in a solution model
case study • Describing the flows to capture the system-user interaction — Primary,
• Eliciting, Analyzing, Documenting and Validating Requirements Alternate flow and Exception Flow in Use Cases
• BA Tools of the Trade

UML Fundamentals, Storyboarding Text Use Cases

THE BA CAREER
WHAT MAKES A GOOD BA
DID YOU • Solid communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
KNOW? • Good problem-solving skills
‘Business Analyst’ WHAT’S HELPFUL
was featured as
• Business knowledge / experi-
one of the 10
most recession-
ence in any domain
• Management experience
proof jobs by
Forbes.com WHAT’S NOT REQUIRED
• Prior IT / programming experi-
ence
• Technical expertise
WHAT’S THE CAREER PATH?
• Business Architect
• Project / Product / Release /
Program Manager
• Why model? What is UML? How modeling helps deliver 4 UNDERSTANDING DATA AND TESTING THE SYSTEM LIVE O N LIN E
quality SUPPORTING DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING TEAMS Via Teleconference and
Web Conference
• High level on the key business models: Use Case, Activity/
Data Modeling and Analysis
Workflow, Statechart Models
• Textual use cases to document functional requirements • Concept of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and using
• General career questions and answers Structured Query Language (SQL) to create, retrieve and maintain data
• Basic SQL queries and SQL scripts – querying tools, execution of commands
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
• Key concepts of object orientation as is relates to UML — Testing Methods
Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism • Testing methodologies and types, functions performed during testing pro-
cess, a Business Analyst approach to testing RECO RDE D O N -DEM AN D
• Identification of Test Scenarios, tracing test cases to test scenarios Learn any time, any where
2 DECIPHERING THE UNIFIED MODELING
Traceability matrix
• Test plans, test procedures and deriving test cases from use cases
LANGUAGE
SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS
Getting User Acceptance to Go Live KEY BENEFITS
• Leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and getting release sign-off
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design  Working BA Instructors
• Business validation and verification
• Key concepts of object orientation as is relates to UML —  Weekend Classes for 4 - 5 Weeks
Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism  Never miss a class — Recorded
Use Case, Activity/Workflow and Statechart Models 5 USING TOOLS THROUGH THE REQUIREMENTS LIFECYCLE 
classes available
Tools Training
• Overview on the semantics (entities and relationships) of the HARNESSING BUSINESS ANALYSIS TOOLS  Comprehensive Course and
key analysis models Reference Materials
Business Modeling, Requirement Management, Version Control and
• Purpose and process of creating UML models using exam-
Change Management Tools
ples
• How to conceptualize a business process and evolve the so- • Business Modeling Tool: StarUML (Hands-On)
• Requirements Tool: DOORS
lution
• Version Control Tool: Rational ClearCase and Visual SourceSafe
TESTIMONIALS
Technical UML Diagrams • Change/Defect Management: Rational ClearQuest The breadth of the course mod-
• How to read technical UML diagrams to understand system ules are amazing. The instructor
architecture — Class, Sequence, Component, Package and is very well versed in all aspects
Deployment Diagrams of each topic detail. Not only will
you learn about Business Analyst
Hands -on Training tools, methods, and processes,
• Solve problem domain on multiple business cases (Airline you'll learn the fundamentals
Reservation, Insurance, Credit Cards) surrounding it.
• Learn how to put theory into practice