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Business Analyst's Crash Course – 2 Days [RB-5010]

Business Analyst's Crash Course – 2 Days [RB-5010]

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Our flagship Business Analysis course provides a quick start for BA practitioners. Take this course if you need a fast-paced, hands-on immersion in core business analysis techniques, including process analysis, data modelling, use cases, business rules analysis, and more.
Training is interspersed with coaching and practical team workshops using a live project or case study.

This intensive, practical course covers all aspects of the Business Analyst role — from requirements gathering to testing. The emphasis is on learning practical tools and techniques that can be applied immediately in real-world situations.

Multiple Student Registration: For more than one participant or group training, contact us for preferred pricing at training@rtdglobal.com.

Target Audience

  • Entry-level IT Business Analysts
  • Experienced Business Analysts seeking a course that fills gaps and integrates all key concepts
  • Systems Analysts or Programmers interested in expanding their role in this business area.

IIBA-Approved

  • This course is IIBA-approved and qualifies for 14 CDUs (Continuing Development Units) toward CBAP accreditation.

What You Will Learn and Apply

After completing this course, participants will:

  • Conduct effective requirements workshops using modern interviewing and facilitation techniques
  • Create clear, actionable requirements documentation for system development, maintenance, or software selection
  • Describe complex business logic and ensure testing completeness using Decision Tables
  • Document user requirements with use cases and UML 2 diagrams
  • Gather business requirements using Structured Analysis and Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA)
  • Improve the quality of stakeholder interviews through structured questioning methods
  • Facilitate Structured Walkthroughs to validate requirements and support Quality Assurance
  • Understand the BA role in supporting Project Managers
  • Understand how to analyze the upstream and downstream impact of change using requirements traceability tables
  • Understand how to adapt the development approach and BA role when working in agile contexts
  • Use UML 2, the industry-standard object-oriented notation, to prepare business requirement models and diagrams

Why This Training Matters

  • Most organizations rely heavily on software systems to operate effectively. Business Analysts bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions.
  • When analysis is incomplete or inaccurate, the results are costly rework, project delays, and missed business objectives. 

This crash course helps you:

  • Reduce project risks and costs through improved communication between business stakeholders and developers
  • Accelerate delivery with comprehensive requirements documentation and structured validation
  • Guarantee quality outcomes through effective testing and structured walkthroughs

Prerequisites

None

Course Topics

  • Brainstorming and Facilitation Techniques
  • JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions
  • Business Data Modelling and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)
  • Use Cases – textual documentation and visual diagrams
  • Workflow Analysis and Activity Diagrams
  • Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)
  • Decision Tables for business rule analysis
  • Structured Testing Principles and Methods
  • Structured Walkthroughs for validation and QA
  • Black Box Testing and Boundary Value Analysis
  • Overview of System Testing Types (Regression, Volume, Stress, Usability, Performance)
  • Mapping BA tools to project development phases under:
    • Waterfall methodologies
    • Iterative methodologies
  • Requirements Management best practices
  • Object-Oriented Tools for Business Analysts using UML 2

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