Business Analysis
Business Analysis Fundamentals
A practical two-day introduction to the business analyst's toolkit: stakeholder engagement, elicitation, requirements writing, process modeling, traceability, prioritization, validation, and solution evaluation.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
- Duration
- 2 days
- Level
- Introductory
- From
- $1195.00
About this course
Course overview
Build the practical foundation for better business analysis.
Business Analysis Fundamentals is a two-day course for new and developing business analysts, project professionals, product teams, and operational leaders who need practical skills for stakeholder engagement, elicitation, requirements, modeling, traceability, prioritization, and solution evaluation.
The course introduces BABOK-aligned concepts through applied exercises and lightweight artifacts that teams can use immediately. Learners leave with a business need brief, stakeholder and elicitation plan, requirements and model set, and 30-day BA practice action plan.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Clarify business problems, opportunities, outcomes, scope boundaries, assumptions, constraints, and success measures
- Identify stakeholders, analyze interests and influence, plan communication, and support shared understanding
- Plan and facilitate interviews, workshops, observation, document analysis, surveys, and collaborative discovery sessions
- Document clear business, stakeholder, solution, transition, functional, and nonfunctional requirements
- Use process, data, decision, interface, user journey, and state models to clarify requirements and solution options
- Prioritize requirements, manage traceability, review acceptance criteria, evaluate solutions, and support change control
- Document 16.0 PMI education PDUs: 10 Ways of Working, 3 Power Skills, and 3 Business Acumen
Audience
Who it's for
- New and developing business analysts who need a practical foundation in BA work
- Project managers, product owners, Scrum Masters, operations leaders, and subject matter experts who support requirements and solution decisions
- ECBA aspirants who want a practical companion to business analysis exam preparation
- Teams that need clearer business needs, better stakeholder alignment, stronger requirements, and more useful models
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 - Elicit and Define
- BA role, mindset, value delivery, BABOK-aligned concepts, project/product context, and collaboration patterns
- Business need, problems, opportunities, outcomes, constraints, assumptions, scope boundaries, and success measures
- Stakeholder identification, analysis, influence, communication needs, conflict points, and decision rights
- Elicitation goals, techniques, preparation, facilitation, documentation, confirmation, and follow-up
- Business, stakeholder, solution, transition, functional, nonfunctional, regulatory, reporting, and data requirements
- Requirement quality, ambiguity detection, acceptance criteria, validation questions, prioritization methods, traceability, and scope-change conversations
Day 2 - Model and Validate
- Current-state and future-state process maps, SIPOC, swimlanes, handoffs, bottlenecks, exceptions, and business rules
- Modeling level of detail, stakeholder review, process pain points, improvement opportunities, and future-state options
- Data needs, decision tables, business rules, interface points, user journeys, personas, and service touchpoints
- Using models to find missing requirements, conflicting assumptions, edge cases, and implementation risks
- Requirements walkthroughs, peer review, acceptance criteria, examples, testability, signoff, and change control
- Solution evaluation, benefits, metrics, feedback, adoption, operational readiness, value realization, BA templates, and 30-day action planning
Public cohorts
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We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
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