Open the door to a career as a professional Business Analyst. This world class part time program will help you master the tools and techniques of the modern analyst.

Course Overview Business Analysts are primarily responsible for identifying the requirements of business stakeholders, and converting these requirements into specifications that will guide the construction of IT-based business solutions. As a liaison between Business and IT, this role can be performed at different levels and with varying degrees of complexity and competence. This certificate programme is aimed at the entry-level business analyst, who needs to develop a good grounding and competence in the essential skills and techniques of business analysis. Junior, or entry-level business analysts typically write specifications for less complex applications, with fewer stakeholders, and with more limited scope and business impact.

Unlike the more difficult and demanding Diploma in Business Analysis, this programme does not require a delegate to actually be working as a Business Analyst, and there is no requirement for delegates to complete a real working project. As such, it is ideal for recently appointed business analysts, or people who seek to move into, a career in professional business analysis.

Typical delegates would include business analysts, systems analysts, test analysts, process specialists, IT consultants, independent contractors, as well as package implementers, developers, analyst programmers, technical specialists, project managers, project sponsors, systems auditors, managers of IT people.

Course Objectives: Learn to: • a good understanding of the role of the modern business analyst • good requirements modelling skills, including being able to model processes, data, and interfaces • to gather and document functional, informational and non-functional requirements • to produce common BA artefacts, including business cases and functional specifications and gain a firm understanding of these • good requirements modelling skills, including being able to model processes, data, and interfaces