Business Analysis: Fundamentals of Requirements Elicitation

Fundamentals of Requirements Elicitation course is a beginner level course and hence suitable to those who want to become a Business Analysts.

This course uses an integrated case-study based approach.

Key Benefits

• Experience requirements elicitation using 3 animated mock interviews

• Acquire skills to elicit requirements using multiple elicitation techniques

• Talk confidently about requirements elicitation in your business analyst interviews

• Attempt quiz to check your understanding and reinforce learning

• Download templates with documented samples

Course Outline

• Introduction to Key Concepts

• Understanding the Business Need

• Introduction to Elicitation

• Elicitation Techniques

  • Interviews

    • Case Study: Eliciting Requirements

      • Part 1: Eliciting Business Needs

      • Part 2: Eliciting Stakeholder Needs

      • Part 3: Eliciting Detailed (Solution) Requirements

  • Document Analysis

  • Observation

  • Prototyping

In this course, you will learn about importance of understanding the underlying business needs for initiating business analysis work including requirements elicitation.

In introduction to elicitation, you will learn what we mean by elicitation and how elicitation is different from requirements gathering. You will learn about general steps in elicitation and challenges encountered in elicitation.

This course includes lectures (with examples wherever possible) to help you learn concepts of requirements elicitation. You will learn how to elicit requirements using a case study that is composed of three animated mock interviews. Later, you will be given example of a prototype that is developed based on the requirements that were elicited using mock interviews. Please note that case study does not include examples on document analysis and observation techniques.

The whole course will take less than 2 hours to complete.

You will be able to attempt quiz at the end of each session to check your understanding and reinforce learning. You will be able to download templates (with documented samples) that can be used to plan interviews and confirm requirements elicited using interviews. You will also be able to download a template to perform Document Analysis and PDF document of prototype screenshots.