Business analyst - course 107,600 rub. from Yandex Workshop, training 7.5 months, Date: December 14, 2023.

Introduction to Business Analytics

Free part 1 week

Understand the role of a business analyst in projects and products.

Sprint 1. The role and participation of a business analyst in projects and products

• Topic 1. Software life cycle, development stage as part of the software life cycle
• Topic 2. Roles in the project
• Topic 3. Differences between a business analyst and other analysts. How the work is structured and what the results are

Existing Solution Support

1 module 8 weeks

You will find yourself in the everyday life of a business analyst who has just gotten a job.
You will have to explore the principles of operation of the current solution in the product, determine the vector of its development and analyze the results of the implemented changes.

Sprint 2. Introduction to the IT solution

• Topic 1. What does an IT solution consist of?
• Topic 2. Immersion in the principles of working in IT
• Topic 3. How work algorithms are described
• Topic 4. Where to start researching documents

Sprint 3. Adding functionality

• Topic 1. User Story as the basis of requirements
• Topic 2. How to find suboptimalities in a solution
• Topic 3. How to understand that changes are positive (measure)
• Topic 4. What are processes
• Topic 5. Why is it important to describe everything?

Sprint 4. Completion and protection

• Topic 1. First results and their validation
• Topic 2. Working with prototypes
• Topic 3. Use Case from the user side
• Topic 4. Metrics Analysis (Excel)
• Topic 5. Defending results to the “team”

Project: Grocery delivery
Using existing artifacts, you have to figure out what kind of improvements the customer wants, work out the improvements and protect them.

Implementation of an existing product

Module 2 12 weeks

You have to implement the product into the company's process.
You'll learn how to conduct interviews, describe processes and requirements, and learn how to make sure everything works correctly.

Sprint 5. Gathering requirements

• Topic 1. What are business requirements
• Topic 2. How to collect requirements (preparing for an interview)
• Topic 3. Interview Skills
• Topic 4. How not to forget something important

Sprint 6. Selecting main objects

• Topic 1. What is important to us?
• Topic 2. How to structure information
• Topic 3. Selecting objects
• Topic 4. SQL Theory and Practice
• Topic 5. Object Models

Sprint 7. Description of future processes

• Topic 1. Notations in the arsenal of a business analyst
• Topic 2. BPMN
• Topic 3. As-is and to-be in processes
• Topic 4. Validation with users

Sprint 8. Description of requirements

• Topic 1. What other requirements are there?
• Topic 2. Identifying functional requirements
• Topic 3. Identifying non-functional requirements
• Topic 4. Design requirements and design tasks

Sprint 9. Testing

• Topic 1. How to check that everything is done correctly
• Topic 2. Different Testing Approaches
• Topic 3. PMI and PSI for testing

Project: CRM
A project where there are many participants in the process and you take on part of the work yourself. You have a product, you know how it works, and it needs to be built into the company's processes.

Custom development from scratch

Module 3 4 weeks

Your task will be to find out the client's needs and pain points, propose a solution, protect it and describe instructions for end users.

You will also learn to calculate the effect of introducing changes in money.

Sprint 10. Gathering requirements under conditions of uncertainty

• Topic 1. Where to start a series of interviews
• Topic 2. Identifying pain points of different users
• Topic 3. Dealing with Contradictions (Critical Thinking)
• Topic 4. How to reach your goal (5 Whys technique and others)
• Topic 5. UML (activity diagram for development, use case journey map)

Sprint 11. Calculation of the economic effect and preparation for development

• Topic 1. Why are we making changes?
• Topic 2. How to calculate basic indicators
• Topic 3. Basic unit economics
• Topic 4. Non-financial results (tech. breakthrough, PR, company value)
• Topic 5. How to build relationships with development
• Topic 6. Epic and Task. Task acceptance criteria, weight and prioritization

Diploma

3 weeks

A project where you manage the entire process yourself. Larger volume of decision making and number of artifacts.

Diploma project: Logistics
Custom development awaits you from scratch: you need to find out what the client wants, what problems and points of improvement there are, and understand what solutions can be offered.

Additional block

Module 4 2 weeks

You will learn how to defend a product to the customer: visualize customer data in BI, present implementation successes and results, as well as how to describe user instructions for end users users.

Sprint 12. User protection and training

• Topic 1. Different data for different tasks
• Topic 2. Storytelling Basics
• Topic 3. Charts and BI
• Topic 4. Slide presentation
• Topic 5. Acceptance of the project, “what after the tests?”
• Topic 6. User instructions
• Topic 7. Admin guide
• Topic 8. Documentation support

Project: Grocery delivery
Using existing artifacts, you have to figure out what kind of improvements the customer wants, work out the improvements and protect them.