IT Business Analyst & Project Managers Technical Awareness

Explore core software development concepts for business analysts and managers, including version control, testing, frameworks, MVC, ORM, web services, web APIs, and cloud services. Understand agile processes, cross-cutting concerns like logging and authorization, software quality measurement, big data, and classes and objects to support development discussions.

Explore how project management tools capture requirements, break them into tasks, assign work, monitor with Jira or Azure boards, and how Git enables a central repository, branching, and reviews.

Learn how a build and deployment tool enables CI/CD, from source control and merging code to dev, integration, and production testing, including smoke, functional, regression, load, and chaos monkey tests.

Explore how frameworks bundle libraries to simplify development, from database connections and authentication to logging. See how frameworks like dot net and spring offer generic functionality you customize.

Explore the model-view-controller architecture, showing how a user request routes through the controller to the model and view, uses database data via sql queries, and renders pages with a template.

Explore object-relational mapping frameworks, such as entity framework and Hibernate, and learn how ORM decouples models from databases via a query language and SQL conversion.

Learn how web services and web APIs exchange data with XML and JSON, and how a controller returns JSON to front-end apps like React or Angular.

Cloud services evolved from data centers, letting you rent infrastructure, platform, or software; IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cover hardware, monitoring tools, and apps like Microsoft Office 365.

Discover how the agile scrum framework replaces the waterfall with two-week sprints, featuring the product owner, scrum master, and team, plus planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Explore crosscutting concerns that every software must address, including authentication, strong passwords, single sign-on, and role-based authorization. Apply caching, configuration management, exception handling, logging, state management, and validation across layers.

Explore key quality attributes for software applications, including availability and uptime, interoperability, maintainability, scalability, security, testability, and usability, with cloud deployment considerations.

Compare relational and No SQL databases, covering OLTP and data warehouses, normalization, ETL, and the roles of document and graph databases for fast reporting.

Learn how a class acts as a template with properties like employee ID, name, salary, and bonus, and how objects, as records, use methods to calculate total pay.

Explore how big data, with technologies like Hadoop and Hive, shapes finance, health, and daily life through non-technical and technical perspectives.

Explore big data technologies, including Hadoop, MapReduce and HDFS, and ecosystem of Pig, Hive, Mahout, Zookeeper, Flume, Sqoop; learn how distributed processing and NoSQL databases like MongoDB enable scalable analytics.