Business Analysis
Business Analysis Fundamentals
A two-day, hands-on introduction to the business analyst's toolkit — stakeholder elicitation, requirements writing, process modeling, and the BABOK® knowledge areas that hold it all together.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
- Duration
- 2 days
- Level
- Introductory
- From
- $1195.00
About this course
Course overview
The analyst's toolkit — built in two days.
Business Analysis Fundamentals is a fast-paced, applied introduction to the discipline that sits between the business and the build team. Over two days, participants learn the day-to-day skills every BA needs: how to elicit what the business actually wants (not just what they say), how to write requirements that developers can build from and stakeholders can sign off on, and how to model current- and future-state processes well enough to expose the gaps nobody is talking about.
The course is deliberately BABOK®-aligned without being BABOK®-flavored — meaning you walk out with real templates and practiced techniques, not just vocabulary. Every concept is reinforced through a running case study so the techniques compound as the workshop progresses.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Elicit requirements confidently from stakeholders of any seniority
- Write business, stakeholder, and solution requirements that hold up to scrutiny
- Build current- and future-state process models that expose real gaps
- Use core BABOK® techniques — stakeholder analysis, use cases, user stories, traceability
- Apply requirements verification and validation so nothing drifts between ask and build
- Earn 16 PDUs aligned to the PMI Talent Triangle®
Audience
Who it's for
- Professionals new to business analysis, including transitioning developers, testers, or PMs
- Product owners and requirements writers who want more structure
- Team leads and functional analysts who support project delivery
- Organizations formalizing BA practice and ready to train a cohort together
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 — Elicit & Define
- Stakeholder identification, analysis, and engagement
- Elicitation techniques — interviews, workshops, observation, document analysis
- Business, stakeholder, and solution requirements
- Writing requirements that are testable, unambiguous, and traceable
Day 2 — Model & Validate
- Current- and future-state process modeling
- Use cases vs. user stories — when each fits
- Requirements verification, validation, and traceability
- Handing off to development: the BA-to-build contract
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