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Masterex Technologies Inc. offers Business Analyst + Agile Scrum Training and Placement Services in Cranbury, NJ
Business Analysis is one of the fastest growing careers today.
Call us @ 609-642-2797
100% Job Oriented Training. US Based Instructors.
Test Lab to practice on Software Tools.
Job Placement assistance and On-Job Support.
Interactive sessions.
We take fewer students in a batch to make sure each student is given the required attention by the instructor.
All Study Materials and tools will be provided by us. You don't have to buy any books or tools.
Pay onetime fee & repeat the classes unlimited times for a year based upon availability.
The teaching methods are based on the current competitive job market.
Course Curriculum :
Section 1: Introduction to Software Development
Introduction to Software Development
What is software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and its phases
Understanding various phases of SDLC
What is Project Lifecycle
Software Development methodologies (Waterfall, Incremental, Spiral, RAD, Agile, etc.)
Section 2: Organizational Context
What is an organization
Types of organizational structures
Organizational hierarchies, roles and responsibilities
What is a project, Project team, who manages it, who pays for it
Project stakeholders and how to identify and manage them
Project phases
Section 3: Introduction to Business Analysis
How Business Analyst's role came about (historical context)
What is business analysis about
Need for a BA and why they are critical to success of a project
Roles and Responsibilities of a BA
Who does a BA interact with (importance of communication and collaboration)
Skills a BA should have
How to plan and manage the deliverables
Business Analyst career path and certifications to consider
Section 4: Deeper Dive into Business Analysis
What are business requirements
Importance of good business requirements - why do we need them
Requirements Types (Functional and Non Functional) and who provides them
Attributes of good requirements - spotting good from bad
Current and future state (As is - To be)
Section 5: Requirements Analysis
Requirements gathering Process
Defining the scope - what needs to be done, what questions to ask
Common challenges in requirements gathering process
Tools and techniques for gathering requirements (JAD, Brainstorming, Interviewing,
Facilitation, Functional Decomposition, SWOT, Root Cause Analysis, EMV Analysis, etc.)
Requirements modeling techniques UML (Use Case modeling, Activity Diagram, Sequence
Diagram)
Data Requirements
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Prioritizing, validating and verifying requirements and signoff
Requirements documents (Business Requirements Doc , FRD, TSD)
How to write and socialize business requirements
How to baseline and manage changes to requirements (change management process)
Risks associated with requirements and how to mitigate them
Section 6: Intro to Quality Assurance (QA) Analysis
What is QA analysis
Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC)
Roles and Responsibilities of a QA tester
Role of a BA in testing
Types of testing (Unit, SIT, UAT, Regression, Load testing etc)
Section 7: Intro to Project Management
What is project management
Structure of a project team
Roles and responsibilities of a PM
Organizational hierarchy and reporting lines
Project phases, activities and deliverables
Business Case and Terms of Reference (Project Charter)
Understanding and managing the Triple Constraint
Cost estimation techniques
Time estimation techniques
Stakeholder Management
Scope Management
Risk Management
Communication Management
The course is taught using real world examples and scenario based case studies for explaining the
concepts. It is an interactive class setting with various group and individual exercises and quizzes.
Agile Scrum Course Outline:
Introduction to Agile & Agile Manifesto
The Scrum Framework
Agile Roles & Duties
o Product Owner
o Scrum Master
o Scrum Team/Development Team
Scrum Ceremonies
o Sprint Planning
o Daily Stand-up
o Backlog Refinement
o Scrum of Scrums
o Product Owner Sync
o Sprint Review/Sprint Demo
o Sprint Retrospective
Agile Estimating & Planning
Artifacts of Agile (Scrum)
User Story Workshop
Splitting User Stories
Overview of Program Increment Planning Event (PIPE)
Walkthrough of Agile (Scrum) Tool
Practical Team Breakouts to practice Agile-Scrum
o Create Product Backlog
o Breakdown of Features into User Stories
o Splitting of User Stories
o Estimate the User Stories
o Create Sprint Backlog
o Practice the Ceremonies
The course is designed to provide hands-on understanding of Agile-Scrum. It will benefit
anyone who seeks to achieve the ability to drive a Scrum project, and applies to those
with backgrounds such as Business Analysts, Customer/Users, Project Managers,
Developers or Testers. It is also suitable to those involved in transitioning to Agile Scrum.
