Business Analysis Courses For Groups
The Uncommon League’s Business Analysis Certificate is consistently rated one of the best in the business. This program is the basis of our award-winning Business Analysis Boot Camp, a Top BA Boot Camp according to CIO Magazine (if you’ll allow us to name drop a little bit) and explores the business analysis discipline and the responsibilities of a business analyst.
All of our courses align with IIBA and the BABOK. The Uncommon League is an IIBA Endorsed Education Provider.
Learn the foundational elements to a successful Business Analyst career. We will explore hands-on techniques and approaches for vision and scope, stakeholder analysis, elicitation of requirements, modeling and analyzing requirements, putting together requirements for a business solution, and how to create and manage the requirements package. We will learn approaches and techniques for planning and estimating the Business Analysts work.
Customize Your Team’s Experience
All the courses on this page can be customized or modified to meet your specific training goals for your team. Our Account Management Team and Instructors are here to help you build a training solution that is uniquely successful.
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Business Analysis Courses
The courses in this section are also offered publicly for individuals and are also available in group training.
Group Discounts: Interested in having your team take these courses publicly? We offer a wide range of group discounts. Email us to find out more.
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Learn the foundational aspects, benefits, techniques, process, skill-sets, competencies, and general expectations of the Business Analyst role and how it delivers value to stakeholders and organizations.
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Learn to identify business needs and create project vision, and communicate project goals. Understand vendor selection, buy-build, and other solution types. Learn to identify, document, and verify project scope.
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Learn the requirements elicitation model, and selecting elicitation techniques. We aren’t known as the technique guys for nothing. We’ll discuss and practice several classic and modern elicitation techniques.
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Learn to get a better understanding of what was uncovered during the elicitation process. Learn in depth modeling techniques, how to use models as an alternative elicitation method, and how to extract requirements from models.
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Understand where the business analyst fits in to the project process after the requirements are documented, prioritization, traceability, verification, and BA involvement in testing to document and manage requirements.
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Learn how to plan out requirements elicitation efforts to create an approach for business analysis activities, define deliverables, estimated effort, and how to negotiate for more time or resources.
Advanced Business Analyst Courses
The courses in this section are typically not scheduled for the public or individuals. These courses are fro groups only.
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Build better stakeholder relationships and trust by understanding influence. The key to getting work done is political and collaborative skills: influencing without authority. How do you get the cooperation of those that you have no authority over? In this class we won’t just talk about the science of influencing without authority – we will discuss practical application. We will share our insider’s guide to influence and how to move the mountain closer to your goals. You will learn powerful concepts, techniques, approaches and models to cut through the barriers and develop stronger relationships so you can do the right thing for the project, the people and the organization.
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Avoid bias, make better decisions, and avoid the pitfalls of bias by using critical thinking skills to think logically and collaboratively. The importance of using critical thinking skills cannot be stressed enough when you think of the millions of dollars wasted every day in organizations. Critical thinkers are able to balance logical, creative and intuitive thinking to make effective, informed, balanced and fair decisions. In this hands-on, dynamic and interactive course we will explore best practices and techniques that foster critical thinking use every day, and that can be applied immediately back on the job to make better and more informed decisions.
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The majority of project failures blame the requirements process so it’s no wonder that writing good requirements is complicated and harder than what most people think. If it were that simple, wouldn’t we have mastered it decades ago? There are a lot of tools, methodologies and even templates that seem to promise great requirements. The real truth is that they only assist with storage and communication and the actual writing relies on you. This course will explore how you can create well-formed, high-quality requirements that will ensure all stakeholders clearly understand what the solution is intended to do. Whether you are new to business analysis or have been doing it a while, you are sure to learn some new techniques and approaches to writing great requirements.
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This course is an introduction to data modeling principles and processes. This course assists in taking requirements and translating them into data requirements by using graphical data modeling notation. This course explains how to normalize data and handle complex relationships between data concepts (classes/entities). This course will provide a practical approach for analyzing and modeling data requirements making them ready to be transformed into a relational database.
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Business Analysts analyze and model requirements to support high quality Business Analysis work. One aspect of that analysis and modeling is the interaction between systems and people – Use Case Modeling. Interactions are a type of interface modeling that must be done to describe system requirements required by the user. In this course you will learn how to define the scope of your efforts that need to be modeled, the analysis and documentation required to show the interaction between the system(s) and people, and how to communicate this information so it is understood by all stakeholders ensuring their needs on the project are being met. This course not only explores the use case model but also a more modern approach to document them through rapid prototyping (mockups and storyboards).
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Understanding transformation and how strategic analysis and thinking along with organization change management are used to transform organizations system, process and people.
There is one little secret that everyone should know about digital transformation and why only 10-15% of companies are getting it right. Strategy and analysis go hand in hand to transform or optimize an organization fully. Almost half of CIOs surveyed think they should identify where transformation should occur but leaders from other parts of the business aren’t sure. Real transformation requires a strong business vision developed by robust Strategic Analysis that drives changes to existing capabilities and develops new ones. In this course we learn how to use 12 new techniques that create new opportunities for innovation, optimization, and transformation. Get hands on experience in using these techniques to build your transformational and Innovation goals. Learn how to evaluate emerging technologies and aligning them to the organization’s vision. Learn to how to take and organize your analysis and package it for approval.
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More and more companies are looking to their Business Analysts to analyze and define solutions that will meet the needs of the business and the overall strategic direction of management. In order to achieve this, Business Analysts need the ability to understand the organization’s architecture, how to model current and future states, drive process improvement opportunities, perform customer driven analysis, perform stakeholder analysis, determine the return on the investment, define and perform risk analysis, impact analysis, internal vs. external environments/factors, feasibility studies, and create business cases.
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Utilize techniques that will build a more thoughtful and effective business case for small and large projects. Learn the process for building a business case that is robust and meaningful for you organization.
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COTS, SaaS, OTS, Cloud, Off-the-shelf, working with external vendors, and contractors can be complicated and counter-productive when trying to decide which option will work the best for the business solution. The course looks at tools and techniques for eliciting requirements, building capability models, RFI, RFP, RFQ, selecting a solution and working with risk.
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The course troubleshoots process, models processing, discussing notation, roles and responsibilities, metrics, and measurements for processes.
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Business runs on process and process runs the business. This course explores a business process modeling framework that will help you outline the key tasks and steps needed for process modeling and to define the success factors of what a successful process should look like. Our business process model is practical, simple and straight forward, providing a methodology neutral approach for greater process modeling success. This course provides the essential steps and approaches to create new business processes as well as make modifications to existing business processes. You will also learn and understand how to facilitate modeling sessions to keep them focused and productive!
Virtual Analysis Courses
The courses in this section are typically not scheduled for the public or individuals. These courses are fro groups only.
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Understanding how to use tools and techniques for elicitation of requirements in hybrid or remote work environments that create innovative results and successful collaboration.
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Understanding the fundamentals of how team members in an organization react to change using virtual techniques, understanding the limitations of online meetings and approaches to overcome missing non-verbal or body language cues. Learn techniques for change communication, management, promotion, and conflict management.
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Understanding how to work with teams in a virtual environment to achieve results in building meaningful and innovative business solutions. Learn leadership techniques that can grow teams into more successful operating units. Explore approaches to work together in a virtual world that will not leave the team feeling disjointed and far part.
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This amazing course is based on hands-on techniques that are adapted to work in the virtual world. These amazing techniques have bene used by the Fortune 100 to develop new products, resolve team conflict, problem solve, and build incredible customer journeys and products.
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Getting innovative solutions and ideas in a virtual world can be frustrating. Getting multiple time zones and cultures to work together is a challenge for everyone. This course provides online tools, ideas, and techniques to help your next virtual workshop, problem solving meeting, or team meeting a memorable success.
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The game of utilizing and understanding influence has changed significantly in the virtual world. Is the person on the other end of the online meeting trying to convey a message non-verbally? How can you read a team members impressions on a Zoom call? It’s hard to tell wether they are a supporter or detractor. Let’s look at what influence without authority really is all about in a virtual world. We will use techniques and approaches to help overcome difficult stakeholder and team member conversations while understand how to motivate meaningfully towards a common goal.
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This course provides a quick hit series of techniques and tools to use to help analysts and team members perform solution or problem analysis in a virtual environment. This fun interactive course is about giving the team an advantage when working virtually. It’s ideal for teams that have just started to work remotely or have moved to a hybrid environment.