The document is a presentation on how to kickstart a career as an IT Business Analyst. It provides an overview of the basics of business analysis, career prospects, typical hurdles and challenges, what a day in the life of a BA is like, and how to overcome hurdles to break into the field. It encourages participants to assess if the path is right for them based on key skills. The presentation outlines how the trainer's structured BA program can help participants learn skills and tools, get practice, and potentially secure a job placement through their consulting services.

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3. 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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4. Who is a BA?
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?
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)
New software feature?
Create a better user interface?
Validation message?
Email notification?
See IIBA’s website iiba.org
Lot of useful resources, free webinars.
Consider membership benefits. Your Career as
How to Kick-start
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5. 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
Research on the common
SDLCs and their
advantages. Learn about project management
principles. They even apply ton daily tasks!
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6. 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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7. 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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8. What’s the future holding?
Look for BAs Jobs In your area:
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How many positions are open?
Which industries are hiring?
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9. 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)
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. A (Busy) Day in the Life of a BA
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
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4 pm: Convene with management to prioritize
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. OOAD
UML
Use Cases
Object Oriented Analysis and Design
Unified Modeling Language
Use Case Writing
Concepts, Examples, Applications
Model Business Solutions
Functional Requirement Writing
ERDs, SQL
Testing
Requirement Mgt.
Structured Query Language, Entity
Relationship Diagrams
Manual Testing
Create, Control and Manage Requirements
Data Visualization, Navicat SQL
Fundamentals, Types, Test Cases
IBM DOORS
Biz. Modeling
Version Control
Change Mgt.
Tools
Tools
Endorsed
The BA Workshop
Tool
StarUML
ClearCase , SourceSafe , TortoiseSVN
Hands-on Tool
ClearQuest , JIRA
Screenshot-based Tool (8 Tools Included!)
Tons of Class Practice Sessions, Assignments, Tests, Case Studies, Resources
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21. Why Us? BA is our specialty!
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22. Placements
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-forProfit
Shaily
Department of Motor Vehicles,
State of California
Government | DMV
Ujjwal
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
Healthcare | Government
Ruchie
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23. Placements
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
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24. Best Value!
BA Workshop
Training
Options
2 courses for the price of 1
Get your Course Fee Refunded after 12 months of working on our payroll
Domain Benefits: Get 1921 niche markets; Better job
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25. 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. [sri@requirementsinc.com]
• 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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