Have you checked out your local IIBA chapter? Go to www.theiiba.org for a chapter near you. About 10-years ago I hooked up with Jason Questor and he become my mentor .... it was the best thing to have ever happened to my career.
Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP
The first thing you should do is learn the business. Both your company's business and any potential outside clients you may deal with.
Make sure you are able to understand and documents processes step by step and find way to improve them. Ask a lot of questions; you can never know enough.
Good luck.
Funny.
First, you have to define what a business analyst is. The work varies from management consultancy to project management to IT. To cover all this ground, you need to understand business models and paradigms and so, ideally, need an MBA.
For the IT side of things (system analysis etc...) you need some sort of holistic understanding of IT infrastructures etc. Ideally, some sort of MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) type knowledge, though you can bypass this by focusing on a niche, such as database (SQL, Oracle etc) structures.
There are specific BA knowledge sources, but honestly, if you ever want to become a senior BA or move up the ranks to real strategic work then the MBA is your best route.
Good Luck Rookie.
As a BA I have tried to put few things that are expected of you :
fundamentals of Business Analysis, role of BA in IT industry, various SDLC methodologies, software engineering methods, techniques of writing good requirements,How to differentiate various requirement types, How to write effective Use cases, Analyst and Stakeholder relationship,Project Management Fundamentals, Business Analysis tools, Role of BA in other phases of SDLC, Role of analyst in QA, various requirements document BRD, FRD, Gap analysis, business rules etc etc etc....As a sr BA you also need to have some planning experience like project plan, requirement plan, requirement management plan, stakeholder analysis
I have trained a number of students and have track record of helping them undertsand the processes very well and my students have the record of cracking the very forst or second interview they go for. This is an online training and can be taken anywhere.
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