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Business Analyst Boot Camp
Business Analysts helps create and communicate the knowledge required to decide precisely what to build. They provide this essential service by assessing and analyzing the business environment,...
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$2,295 USD
Duration
4 days
Course Code
BA-BC
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Overview
Business Analysts helps create and communicate the knowledge required to decide precisely what to build. They provide this essential service by assessing and analyzing the business environment, defining the scope of business problems, capturing project requirements, designing high-value solution approaches, and ensuring that the defined scope meets the customer's needs, goals, objectives, and expectations. This 4-day Business Analyst training course will give you hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for identifying a project's scope, developing and discovering requirements, user stories, and uses cases, and documenting them expertly. You will gain pragmatic solutions to sustain stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle, including questioning, listening, business need identification, problem-solving, presentation, validation, and acceptance of the effective solution. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises will provide you with the competence and confidence to improve project outcomes through better requirements elicitation and requirements development. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the challenges faced in defining correct requirements, practical approaches for eliciting and documenting requirements, and strategies for managing requirements throughout the project life cycle.
Skills Gained
- Define the Business Analysis knowledge areas for the IIBA (BA Book of Knowledge) and PMI (PMI Guide to Business Analysis)
- Explain how the Business Analyst participates in agile development frameworks
- Identify the six essential Business Analyst skills
- Explain what a requirement is and make the case for investing in “good” requirements.
- Perform strategy analysis for an enterprise to connect projects to enterprise strategy
- Employ a variety of analysis tools and modeling techniques to understand and communicate a need.
- Explain nine generally accepted requirements elicitation techniques
- Apply practices for improving requirements quality and reducing ambiguity
- Use a number of generally accepted practices from interviewing to surveys and modeling for improving your requirements elicitation, development, and documentation
- Document requirements with use cases.
- Facilitate aligning conversations with the development teams with user stories.
- Package and communicate requirements to create alignment in the organization.
- Analyze the business environment in which your project occurs
- Generate a plan for bringing these methods back to your organization
Who Can Benefit
Anyone involved in business analysis would benefit from this business analyst training course.
- Business Analyst
- Business Systems Analyst
- Systems Analyst
- Project Manager or Team Leader
- Systems Architect or Designer
- IT Manager/Director
- Systems or Application Developer
- QA Professional
- Systems Tester
- Business customer, user, or partner
- Anyone wanting to enhance their business analysis skills
Course Details
Course Outline
- Part 1: The Business Analysis Profession
- Part 2: The Business Case for Good Requirements
- Part 3: Foundations of Requirements Development
- Part 4: Project Initiation: Eliciting High-level and Mid-level Requirements
- Part 5: Eliciting Detailed Requirements
- Part 6: Improving Requirements Quality
- Part 7: Documenting Requirements with Use Cases and User Stories
- Part 8: Packaging and Presenting Requirements
Schedule
8 options available
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Jul 14, 2025 - Jul 18, 2025 (5 days)
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Aug 11, 2025 - Aug 15, 2025 (5 days)
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Sep 8, 2025 - Sep 12, 2025 (5 days)
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Sep 22, 2025 - Sep 26, 2025 (5 days)
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Oct 6, 2025 - Oct 10, 2025 (5 days)
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Oct 20, 2025 - Oct 24, 2025 (5 days)
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Nov 3, 2025 - Nov 7, 2025 (5 days)
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Dec 1, 2025 - Dec 5, 2025 (5 days)
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FAQ
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
What languages are used to deliver training?
Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.
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GTR stands for Guaranteed to Run; if you see a course with this status, it means this event is confirmed to run. View our GTR page to see our full list of Guaranteed to Run courses.
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Which delivery formats are available?
At Ascendient Learning, we offer training that is Instructor-Led, Online, Virtual, and Self-Paced.
Does Ascendient Learning deliver group training?
Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
What does vendor-authorized training mean?
As a vendor-authorized training partner, we offer a curriculum that our partners have vetted. We use the same course materials and facilitate the same labs as our vendor-delivered training. These courses are considered the gold standard and, as such, are priced accordingly.
Is the training too basic, or will you go deep into technology?
It depends on your requirements, your role in your company, and your depth of knowledge. The good news about many of our learning paths, you can start from the fundamentals to highly specialized training.
How up-to-date are your courses and support materials?
We continuously work with our vendors to evaluate and refresh course material to reflect the latest training courses and best practices.
Are your instructors seasoned trainers who have deep knowledge of the training topic?
Ascendient Learning instructors have an average of 27 years of practical IT experience and have also served as consultants for an average of 15 years. To stay current, instructors spend at least 25 percent of their time learning new, emerging technologies and courses.
Do you provide hands-on training and exercises in an actual lab environment?
Lab access is dependent on the vendor and the type of training you sign up for. However, many of our top vendors will provide lab access to students to test and practice. The course description will specify lab access.
Will you customize the training for our company’s specific needs and goals?
We will work with you to identify training needs and areas of growth. We offer a variety of training methods, such as private group training, on-site of your choice, and virtually. We provide courses and certifications that are aligned with your business goals.
How do I get started with certification?
Getting started on a certification pathway depends on your goals and the vendor you choose to get certified in. Many vendors offer entry-level IT certification to advanced IT certification that can boost your career. To get access to certification vouchers and discounts, please contact info@ascendientlearning.com.
Will I get access to content after I complete a course?
You will get access to the PDF of course books and guides, but access to the recording and slides will depend on the vendor and type of training you receive.
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Reviews
Exit certified was great as it is very in depth and hands on learning which made it very easy to learn this type of work.
You get detailed labs to guide you through the technical material giving you a hands on method of learning otherwise difficult material.
it was good and very informative. Instructure covered everything in detail.
Good training. A lot to take in for the short amount of time we have though
They are very good and made sure we had all the appropriate materials for class.
