Business Analysis Basics to Advanced
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What you'll learn
Gather, analyze, and document business requirements using industry-standard analysis techniques.
Apply SDLC, DFDs, JAD sessions, and feasibility analysis to define effective solutions.
Validate solutions through testing, traceability, and stakeholder-focused evaluation methods.
Skills you'll gain
- Systems Thinking
- Systems Analysis
- Business Solutions
- Requirements Management
- Requirements Elicitation
- System Implementation
- Job Evaluation
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Business Systems
- Analysis
- Business Requirements
- Feasibility Studies
- Business
- Quality Assurance
- Business Systems Analysis
- Job Analysis
- Business Modeling
- System Testing
- Business Analysis
Tools you'll learn
Details to know
June 2026
9 assignments
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There are 9 modules in this course
Master Business Analysis skills and become job-ready with real-world techniques. Learn how to bridge business needs with technical solutions effectively.
This comprehensive course covers the complete Business Analysis lifecycle—from understanding systems and stakeholder needs to requirement gathering, modeling, feasibility analysis, and solution validation. Designed for beginners and professionals, it provides a structured approach to mastering key tools like SDLC, DFD, JAD sessions, and requirement traceability. You will learn how to analyze business problems, define solutions, and ensure successful implementation using proven frameworks. The course also dives into quality assurance, testing techniques, and system evaluation to help you deliver high-impact results. Whether you are starting your career or transitioning into Business Analysis, this course equips you with practical, job-ready skills aligned with industry standards.
Understand core system concepts, components, and lifecycle models essential for Business Analysis.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 69 minutes
- Definition of a System•7 minutes
- Characteristics of the System•8 minutes
- Elements of the System•10 minutes
- Types of Information Systems•9 minutes
- System Hierarchy•2 minutes
- System Development Life Cycle•10 minutes
- Key Concepts in Business Analysis•12 minutes
- Business Analysis Planning and High Level Task•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Foundations of Systems Thinking in Business Analysis•30 minutes
Learn how to design structured BA approaches, define activities, and manage stakeholder engagement.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 65 minutes
- Planning A Business Analysis Approach•8 minutes
- Inputs and Elements of BA Approach•8 minutes
- Output - Plan BA Approach•7 minutes
- Stakeholder Analysis - Input - Output Diagram•9 minutes
- Techniques Stakeholder Analysis•8 minutes
- Plan BA Activities - Stakeholder•4 minutes
- Enterprise Analysis•10 minutes
- Enterprise Analysis - Input Output Diagram•12 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Planning the Business Analysis Approach•30 minutes
Analyze business problems, identify capability gaps, and define solution approaches and business cases.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 66 minutes
- Input and Output - Define Business Need•10 minutes
- Assess Capability Gaps•6 minutes
- Enterprise Architecture•10 minutes
- Determine Solution Approach•10 minutes
- Steps to Determine Solution Approach•8 minutes
- Define Business Case•5 minutes
- Information Gathering Tools•8 minutes
- Output Information Gathering Phase•9 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Enterprise Analysis and Business Needs•30 minutes
Master data gathering methods including interviews, JAD sessions, questionnaires, and sampling.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 65 minutes
- Background Research•7 minutes
- Decide Whom to Interview•10 minutes
- Joint Application Design (JAD)•9 minutes
- JAD Participants•7 minutes
- JAD Participants - IT Representative•8 minutes
- Questionnaires•9 minutes
- Administrating Questionnaires•9 minutes
- Sampling Method•7 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Requirements Elicitation Techniques•30 minutes
Apply modeling tools like context diagrams, sequence diagrams, and object models to represent systems.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 69 minutes
- System Modelling•5 minutes
- Contex Model•7 minutes
- Context Diagram - Example•7 minutes
- Sequence Diagram•11 minutes
- Example - Sequence Diagram•12 minutes
- Object Model•11 minutes
- Feasibility Analysis•6 minutes
- What is a Feasibility Study ?•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - System Modeling and Visualization•30 minutes
Evaluate economic and schedule feasibility and design effective system outputs and structures.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 79 minutes
- Economic Feasibility•9 minutes
- Types of Benefits•8 minutes
- Schedule Feasibility•11 minutes
- System Design•12 minutes
- Logical System Design•8 minutes
- Output Design - Objective•10 minutes
- Factors to Consider - Output Design•10 minutes
- IT Systems Audit•11 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Feasibility and System Design•30 minutes
Manage requirements lifecycle, scope, traceability, and documentation for effective communication.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 60 minutes
- IT Systems Example•12 minutes
- Requirements Management and Communication•9 minutes
- Manage Solution Scope•10 minutes
- Manage Requirement Traceability•5 minutes
- Maintain Requirements for RE- Use•3 minutes
- Which Requirements Can BE Re - Used•4 minutes
- Prepare Requirements Package•5 minutes
- Requirement Analysis•12 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Requirements Management and Analysis•30 minutes
Prioritize, validate, and assess solutions while ensuring organizational readiness.
What's included
8 videos1 assignment
8 videos•Total 84 minutes
- Elements - Requirement Prioritization•11 minutes
- Modeling Concepts for Business Analysis•12 minutes
- Define Assumptions and Constraints•13 minutes
- Validate Requirements•5 minutes
- Solution Assessment and Validation•9 minutes
- Techniques for Assessing Solutions•11 minutes
- Assess Organizational Readiness•12 minutes
- Force Field Analysis•11 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Advanced Requirements and Validation•30 minutes
Ensure solution quality through testing, QA practices, and structured analysis tools like DFDs.
What's included
14 videos1 assignment
14 videos•Total 116 minutes
- Elements of Solution Validation•13 minutes
- Software Quality•7 minutes
- Verification and Validation•7 minutes
- Types of Software Testing•8 minutes
- Usability Testing•7 minutes
- Software Maintenance•8 minutes
- Adaptive Maintenance•7 minutes
- Quality Assurance•6 minutes
- Levels of Quality Assurance•6 minutes
- Tools for Structured Analysis•6 minutes
- Data Flow Diagram is Not Flow Chart•6 minutes
- Types of DFDs•12 minutes
- DFD Example - Coffee Shop•11 minutes
- Decision Tables•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Graded - Quality Assurance, Testing, and Structured Analysis•30 minutes
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