Topics

1. What is Business Analysis
2. Who is a Business Analyst?
3. AI First - Tech BA Career
4. BA Directives
5. Skills & Tools Mastery
6. Understanding BA Key Terms

• Activities: BA Role in AI and IT Projects, discuss role boundaries. AI literacy and Prompt Engineering for BAs

Topics

1. The Art of Effective Prompting
2. AI-Powered Research and Analysis
3. Understanding Vibe Coding
4. Understanding Agents

• Tools: Prompts, Claude, AI tools
• Activities: AI assisted Research.
• Case Study : Retail E-Commerce

Topics

1. What is Need and Analysis
2. Root Cause Analysis – RCA
3. 5-Whys Technique
4. Understanding Goals and Objective
5. Solution Scoping
6. BRD / FRD

• Tools: draw.io, Lucid chart, AI tools
• Activities: Identify Needs, RCA report, defining Problem and Scope.
• Case Study : E-Commerce Account Payable Problem or any on demand

Topics

1. Introduction to Elicitation and Techniques
2. Questionnaire
3. Interviews
4. Brainstorming
5. Document Analysis
6. Reverse Engineering
7. Focus Groups
8. Observations
9. Workshop
10. JAD
11. Prototyping – Design
12. Workflow Modeling – Design
13. Interface Analysis - Design APIs - 5W-H

• Tools: Mindmapple, Draw.io, Lucid Chart.
• Activities: Questionnaire and Stakeholder Interviews
• Takeaway: Elicitation skills.

Topics

1. Visual , System and Design thinking
2. Understanding Domain vs Systems
3. Introduction to Modeling and Techniques
4. Process Modeling
5. Introduction to DFD - Context Diagram
6. How Create DFD Diagram - Hands-On
7. Process Maps
8. Swim Lane Diagram / Activity Diagrams
9. UML- Use case Diagrams
10. Data Modeling - ER Diagram

• Tools: draw.io, Lucid Chart.
• Activities: Modeling workshop.

Topics

1. Revisit Requirements and Designs Cycle
2. What is Requirement and Lifecycle Management
3. What is Requirements gathering – Discovery
4. What Use case and Scenario
5. What is User Story and Acceptance Criteria
6. How to Write Requirements
7. Requirements Characteristics and Design Quality
8. How to Write Stories with GWT – Structure
9. How to write Effective User Stories INVEST
10. Prototyping
11. NFR Analysis
12. Generating Wireframes with Google Stich

• Tools: Confluence Wiki, Word, BRD documentation generation Tool.
• Activities: Requirements workshop, BRD documentation.

Topics

1. What is SDLC
2. What is Sequential - Waterfall model
3. What is Agile
4. What is SCRUM and Sprints, User Stories
5. SCRUM Roles
6. SCRUM Ceremonies or Events
7. Backlog Grooming
8. Sprint Planning
9. Daily Sendups
10. Sprint Retrospectives
11. DoR, DoD and Burndown chart
12. Understanding spec-driven development (SDD)

• Activities: Quiz
• Takeaway: SDLC and Agile approaches.

Topics

1. What are IDE and AI assisted IDEs - VS Code
2. How to connect Requirements Boards from IDE
3. Generate Requirements from IDE into Boards
4. Effex BRD analysis VS code extension
5. Introduction to Code Repos – GitHub
6. Introduction GitHub Co-pilot

• Tools: JIRA, Pencil, User Story Generation and AI tools
• Activities: User Story Generation and Refinement.

Topics

1. What is Data, Databases and Providers (MYSQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, ORACLE)
2. What is SQL
3. Understanding DDL, DML, DCL, TCL
4. CREATE, UPDATE & DELETE Data
5. SELECT & WHERE
6. ORDER BY
7. JOINs
8. GROUP BY
9. AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS
10. HAVING
11. SUBQUERIES

• Tools: draw.io MySQL Workbench tool.
• Activities: ER diagram and SQL Practice.

Topics

1. What is System Integrations
2. Understanding is HTTP protocol
3. API Methods
4. Paths, Routes and Params
5. Understanding JSON
6. Post with Body
7. API Status Codes

• Tools: Open API tools.
• Activities: Testing APIs.

Topics

1. What is Data Analysis
2. Understanding KPI and Executive Dashboards
3. Understanding Power BI
4. Power Query
5. Generating Dashboard using Power BI
6. End to End Data Analysis and Dashboards

• Tools: Power BI.
• Activities: Dashboarding with Power BI.

Objective: Solving Account Payables Case Study Problem.

• Domain : Retail Sector Account Payables
• Tool: VSCode

• Schedule: 3 Hrs .
• Tools: VS Code and AI Models tools.
• Activities: Workshop.
• Takeaway: Hand-On Project Delivery.