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How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?

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Our Plan for Today

1 What are the basics of BA?

2 What are the career prospects?

3 So what’s the catch? What are the hurdles?

4 How’s a BA’s typical work day like?

5 Is this the right path for me?

6 How to overcome the hurdles?

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Who is a BA?

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The BA understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. (IIBA)

See IIBA’s website iiba.org Lot of useful resources, free webinars.

Consider membership benefits.

Understand high level requirements? Define a condition and outcome?

Diagram a process flow? Explain a calculation with examples?

Solve operational issue? Improve efficiency?

Make end customers happy? Enforce legal/regulatory statute?

New software feature? Create a better user interface?

Validation message? Email notification?



Some Terminology • Project

• Stakeholders of a Project

– Business Sponsors

– External Customers / End Users

– Internal Teams / Developers, Testers, Project Managers, etc.

• Software Development Life Cycle

• Business & Functional Requirements

– What is UML? Is that a programming language?

– What is a Use Case

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Research on the common SDLCs and their

advantages. Learn about project management principles. They even apply ton daily tasks!



BA Role • Need Based role: Originated since several

projects failed

• Upstream in the development process

• Serves as a bridge between the stakeholders

• Acts as organizer, listener, investigator, facilitator, communicator, collaborator & innovator

• BAs are domain and technology agnostic

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Our Plan for Today 1 What are the basics of BA?

2 What are the career prospects? 3 So what’s the catch? What are the hurdles?




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What’s the future holding?

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Look for BAs Jobs In your area:

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How many positions are open?

Which industries are hiring?

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BA Average Salaries

Compare with national average of 42K (Source: SSA)

Average National BA Salaries are 14% higher than all job postings nationwide (Source: Indeed.com)



Our Plan for Today 1 What are the basics of BA?


3 So what’s the catch? What are the hurdles? 4 How’s a BA’s typical work day like?



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Hurdles for Aspiring BAs Job descriptions demand.. • UML, Use Cases and structured Analysis Techniques

• Working Knowledge of BA Practices

• Tools

– Requirement Management

– Business Modeling

– Change Management

– Version Control

– Querying

• Understanding of databases, object oriented analysis and design (OOAD), testing principles

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Hurdles for Aspiring BAs Interviews demand..

• Behavioral skills - how to handle a specific business problem

• Expertise in Business Modeling

• BA best practices

• Diverse industry knowledge/experience

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Your Plan for Today







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A (Busy) Day in the Life of a BA

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9 am: Meet with Users to understand existing business process and new business needs

10 am: Review the organization’s newly proposed IT process, plan meetings to identify project requirements

11 am: Collaborate with development team and business users to gather functional details of the project

1 pm: Create models and elicitation documents to illustrate and validate requirements understanding

2 pm: Meet with development team to review the requirements and discuss screen design

3 pm: Resolve an issue that the testing team identified with current development

4 pm: Convene with management to prioritize and handle software change requests



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Give yourself a +1 if you..

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• Are organized

• Have an eye for the details

• Have good communication and write well

• Can explain concepts clearly

• Are a people person

• Are a problem solver

• Have a logical/analytical mind

• Have a good command on Word and Excel

• Have business/IT/industry education (Computer/Business

Degree, IT Training, Telecom/Finance etc.)

• Have operational experience (any field!)



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How our Structured Program can Help

You can • Avoid the frustration from the information overload

• Learn the BA skills, plus the behavioral aspect of how to apply it to your own background.

• Benefit from faster time to market

• Rely on the expertise of Industry BA Practitioners with several years of experience

• Get comfortable with Tons of Tools Training: 1 Year access to tools on our server & course site, Lifetime access to multiple tools!

• Get lots of practice with in-class business modeling sessions & practical assignments



How our Structured Program can Help

You can • Forget the guesswork and be confident right from your first interview

• Start interviewing for your dream job in about 10 weeks from now!

• Get the peace of mind that comes with plentiful Resume prep, Interview prep, On-the-job support resources provided (for consultants placed through us)

• Get your Course Fee Refunded after 12 months of working on our payroll

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Get a sneak peek of the full course

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Concepts, Examples, Applications

OOAD Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Model Business Solutions

UML Unified Modeling Language

Functional Requirement Writing

Use Cases Use Case Writing

Data Visualization, Navicat SQL

ERDs, SQL Structured Query Language, Entity

Relationship Diagrams

Fundamentals, Types, Test Cases

Testing Manual Testing

IBM DOORS

Requirement Mgt. Create, Control and Manage Requirements

StarUML

Biz. Modeling Tools

ClearCase , SourceSafe , TortoiseSVN

Version Control Tools

ClearQuest , JIRA

Change Mgt. Tool

Hands-on Tool Screenshot-based Tool (8 Tools Included!)

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The BA Workshop

Tons of Class Practice Sessions, Assignments, Tests, Case Studies, Resources

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Why Us? BA is our specialty!



Clients Domain Consultants

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)

Energy | Non-profit Georgette

Chevron Energy Varshini

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Healthcare | Government Rakshya & Indra

Capital One Bank Financial Services | Consumer Banking

Erfaan

Freddie Mac Financial Services | Secondary Mortgage

Mansi & Ruchira

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Healthcare | Not-for-Profit

Shaily

Department of Motor Vehicles, State of California

Government | DMV

Ujjwal

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Healthcare | Government Ruchie

Placements

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Clients Domain Consultants

US Census Bureau Government Pa Joof

State Farm Insurance Divya

Toyota Manufacturing / Retail Subramaniam

Volkswagen Credit Financial Services Naznin

FINRA Financial Services Mekail

HSBC Financial Services Vinay

Fannie Mae Financial Services

Aleena

Wells Fargo Financial Services

Priya

Placements

View Alumni LinkedIn Profiles http://requirementsinc.com/ba/alumni


How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst? Domain Benefits Get into the niche markets & better job security; Reach 100K sooner

BA Workshop Training Options

Get your Course Fee Refunded after 12 months of working on our payroll

2 courses for the price of 1

Best Value!



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Next Steps • Review

– Our suggested take-away tasks

– Sample course videos and alumni interviews we’ll send you

• Set up a one-on-one call with Sri, the creator of this course and the Founder/CEO of Requirements Inc. [[email protected] / 716-228-2411]

• Expect Class Plan & Schedule for the upcoming full program by email

• Check out our other programs and free info sessions:

– BA Finance Domain, BA Health Care Domain, QA, PMP, Excel

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