Business Analyst

Skill Goal:

Build a strong understanding of the Business Analyst role, responsibilities, and project environments.

Skills Developed:

• Explain the role and responsibilities of a Business Analyst

• Understand different project types and environments

• Identify stakeholder groups and their expectations

• Differentiate Agile and Waterfall BA roles

• Recognize how BA contributes to project success

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to clearly understand the BA role and adapt responsibilities across different project environments

Skill Goal:

Develop the ability to clearly define business problems, scope, and objectives.

Skills Developed:

• Differentiate business needs vs solutions

• Define problem statements and business scope

• Identify business objectives and success criteria

• Understand key BA deliverables

• Establish clear boundaries for analysis

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to define structured business problems and align them with measurable objectives.

Skill Goal:

Elicit accurate and complete requirements from stakeholders using structured techniques.

Skills Developed:

• Identify and analyze stakeholders

• Apply elicitation techniques (interviews, workshops, surveys)

• Ask effective and structured questions

• Capture stakeholder needs accurately

• Manage stakeholder expectations

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to gather meaningful and actionable requirements from stakeholders

Skill Goal:

Write clear, structured, and testable business and functional requirements.

Skills Developed:

• Differentiate business, functional, and non-functional requirements

• Write clear and concise requirements

• Structure requirements documentation

• Apply traceability concepts

• Maintain requirement versions

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to produce professional, structured, and testable requirement documents

Skill Goal:

Analyze and improve business processes using structured modeling techniques.

Skills Developed:

• Understand process modeling fundamentals

• Create As-Is and To-Be process flows

• Identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks

• Analyze workflows for improvement

• Document process changes

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to model and improve business processes effectively

Skill Goal:

Use industry-standard modeling techniques to represent systems and workflows.

Skills Developed:

• Understand BPMN fundamentals

• Create process flow diagrams

• Develop use case diagrams

• Build data flow diagrams

• Create system context diagrams

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to visually communicate business requirements using standard modeling techniques.

Skill Goal:

Validate, prioritize, and manage requirements throughout the lifecycle.

Skills Developed:

• Validate requirements with stakeholders

• Apply prioritization techniques (MoSCoW, etc.)

• Manage scope and change requests

• Handle requirement conflicts

• Support approval and sign-off processes

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to ensure requirements are accurate, prioritized, and aligned with business goals

Skill Goal:

Create and manage key Business Analyst documentation using industry tools.

Skills Developed:

• Understand commonly used BA tools

• Create BRD and FRD documents

• Develop use case documentation

• Understand wireframes and mockups

• Apply documentation best practices

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to create professional BA artifacts used in real-world projects

Skill Goal:

Apply Business Analysis practices in Agile environments.

Skills Developed:

• Understand BA role in Agile teams

• Write user stories and acceptance criteria

• Support backlog refinement

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Scrum teams

• Participate in Agile ceremonies

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to perform BA responsibilities effectively in Agile project environments

Skill Goal:

Apply Business Analysis skills across a complete project lifecycle.

Skills Developed:

• Apply end-to-end BA workflow

• Handle real-world BA challenges

• Integrate elicitation, documentation, and modeling

• Solve business problems using structured analysis

• Prepare for BA interviews and scenarios

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to perform Business Analysis tasks confidently in real-world scenarios

Project Goal:

Apply Business Analysis skills to analyze a real-world business scenario, gather and document requirements, model processes, and present actionable business solutions.

Skills Demonstrated:

• Analyze a real-world business scenario provided in class

• Understand the defined business problem and success criteria

• Identify stakeholders and gather requirements

• Document clear business and functional requirements

• Create process models (As-Is and To-Be workflows)

• Apply BPMN and diagramming techniques

• Validate and prioritize requirements

• Develop BA documentation (BRD, use cases, artifacts)

• Present business insights and recommendations to stakeholders

• Demonstrate structured, real-world Business Analyst thinking