Business Analyst:

1. Strategic Planning
2. Operating and Business Model Analysis
3. Process Definition & Design
4. Technical Business Analysis

Business Model:
- Business Model is framework for creating economic, social & other forms of value.
- Core aspect of Business, including purpose, strategies, infrastructure, operation process, etc.

Business process:
- Business process is collection of related, structured activities or task that produce specific product.

Main Process:
1. Management Process
2. Operational Process
3. Supporting Process

Use Case Model:
1. Group Analysis 2. JAD – Joint Application Development

Identify Business Needs:
1. Business Definition
2. Understand Business Domain
3. Organization Goal
4. Competitive stance.

Business Analyst Responsibilities:
1. Scope of Business
2. Translate Business Needs
3. Model & Documents
4. Act as Communicator
5. Political Mentor
6. Test & Validation
7. Represent Stakeholders

UML Diagrams:
STRUCTURAL DIAGRAMS (Static Diagram):
1. Class Diagram: Describe structure of system by showing system’s classes, attributes, & Relationships.
2. Component Diagram: How software system split up into components & show dependencies among.
3. Composite Structure Diagram: Internal structure of a class & the collaborations that this structure makes possible.
4. Deployment Diagram: Hardware used in system implementation & Execution environment & artifacts deployed on the hardware.
5. Object Diagram: Complete or partial view of structure of an example modeled system at a specific time.
6. Package Diagram: How system is split up into logical grouping by showing the dependencies among grouping.
7. Profile Diagram: Operates at Meta model level to show stereotypes as class with stereotype.

BEHAVIORAL DIAGRAMS (Dynamic Diagram):
1. Activity Diagram: Business & Operational step-by-step workflow of components in a system.
2. Use Case Diagram: Functionality provided by a system in terms of actors, their goals represented as use cases, and any dependencies among those use cases.

INTERACTION DIAGRAMS:
1. Communication Diagram
2. Interaction Overview Diagram
3. Sequence Diagram
4. Timing Diagram