Project Management and Business Analysis Learning

Business Analysts also require additional specialised and technical skills. These skills are varied – and range from great facilitation techniques to clear and compelling long-term vision. Although training and certification doesn't necessarily guarantee success, it gives you knowledge of the fundamentals, which you need to start building your own experiences and qualities upon.

Training is a massive advantage in the project management profession, and often certification is the only thing setting you apart from the competition. Certification gives you – and others - confidence in your performance.

ESI's courses are aligned with the IIBA’s BABOK® knowledge areas and can help you to achieve IIBA® Certification.

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The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK)® is a great place to start developing your skills.

1. Enterprise Analysis Understanding the big picture, defining business goals, strategic planning and developing the business case. 2. Planning and Monitoring Planning for the business analysis processes and activities, identifying deliverables and how the changes will be controlled and managed. 3. Requirements Elicitation Gathering requirements from stakeholder groups, identifying tasks and techniques to capture requirements. 4. Requirements Communication and Management Focusing on communicating documented requirements to all stakeholders, identifying and managing change and gaining consensus. 5. Requirements Analysis Analysing data, defining processes to structure raw data, identifying gaps in requirements and defining the solution. 6. Solution Assessment and Validation Ensuring the best approach is taken and that the proposed solution will meet objectives and is feasible and practical.