How to Kickstart Your IT BA Career

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

Our Plan for Today
1What are the basics of BA?
2What are the career prospects?
3So what’s the catch? What are the hurdles?
4How’s a BA’s typical work day like?
5Is this the right path for me?
6How 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
2 What are the career
prospects?
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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)

Our Plan for Today
3 So what’s the catch? What
are 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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Your Plan for Today
4 How’s a BA’s typical work day
like?
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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

Your Plan for Today
5 Is this the right path for me?
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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!)

Your Plan for Today
6 How to overcome the
hurdles?
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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
Download the BA Package from http://requirementsinc.com/ba/download

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
Endorsed

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

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

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
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– 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
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