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In the Session, you will Learn.. The Roles and Responsibilities of a BA BA Job Prospects How a typical day in the life of a BA goes Challenges facing new BAs How to overcome those challenges
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How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
Before we get started.. • We’ll send you a copy of this presentation by email
• Please interrupt to ask questions
• You’ll find some blue arrows throughout. These are some post session take-away tasks for you.
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Introductions • Please provide your name • Brief educational and work background
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How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
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?
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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!
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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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Check out ModernAnalyst.com Good collection of articles, blogs on Business Analysis
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How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
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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What’s the future holding?
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Look for BAs Jobs In your area:
http://requirementsinc.com/jobs
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)
[email protected] | 703 468 1921
How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
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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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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How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
Your 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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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
[email protected] | 703 468 1921
How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
Your 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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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!)
[email protected] | 703 468 1921
How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
Your 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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How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst?
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
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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
Download the BA Package from http://requirementsinc.com/ba/download
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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
End
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Why Us? BA is our specialty!
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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
View Alumni LinkedIn Profiles http://requirementsinc.com/ba/alumni
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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, Sangita
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
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How to Kick-start Your Career as an IT Business Analyst? Domain Benefits: Get into 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]]
• 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
Considering signing up for the full program?
Express interest here and we’ll keep you informed (no payment commitment needed)
http://requirementsinc.com/enroll
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Thanks for joining us!
• 2 Questions for you (online participants, respond via chat, classroom
participants, please use a sheet)
– Would you recommend us to a friend?
– If a friend asked you “How was that session?”, what would you say?
• Your referral is our best compliment – Go to http://requirementsinc.com/refer
– To thank you for your enrollment, we’ll send you and your referral who joins with you a $50 Amazon Gift Card
May we ask for 2 mins?
Attend an Upcoming Live Info Session:
http://requirementsinc.com/ba/course