Course Description

This course provides a solid foundation in the principles, practices, and techniques of business analysis, aligned with the IIBA® BABOK® Guide and ECBA® exam blueprint. Participants will gain practical skills to identify business needs, define solutions, collaborate with stakeholders, document requirements, and support organizational change. Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and hands-on workshops, participants will build confidence in applying analysis methods while preparing for the ECBA® exam.

Learning Objectives:

Throughout the course, students work together in small groups on a pre-determined project.  Each exercise allows the students to apply what they’ve learned throughout the course.

• Define business objectives

• Perform stakeholder analysis

• Elicit requirements using multiple techniques

• Create a business process model using BPMN

• Write User Stories and Use Cases to capture functional requirements

• Analyze requirements using several modeling techniques

• Verify and validate requirements

• Organize, prioritize, and allocate requirements for clarity

• Manage changes to requirements