Firm Up Your Foundational BA Skills
FOBAᵀᴹ takes you through a project in a simulated enterprise environment.
Earn 36 IIBA PD/CDUs to help you meet the application or renewal requirements for your CCBA or CBAP certification.
This is a hands-on project-based course where you'll produce the core BA deliverables your team needs to enhance an existing digital product in an enterprise environment.
FOBAᵀᴹ is a 12-week practicum where you'll produce BA deliverables including:
- Standard BPMN-based process model as part of elicitation.
- User Stories and Use Cases as part of elaboration.
- Wireframes and Screen Specifications as part of elaboration.
- Standard UML-based data model as part of business rules analysis.
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Henriette Nitu
Senior Business Analyst
What You'll Learn
You'll learn the foundational business analysis skills you need to connect business needs to IT solutions in support of all your stakeholders.
The project will give you the pre-project input you need to elicit and elaborate the user needs down to the level of detail required by your technical stakeholders.
Pre-Project Discovery
You'll be given pre-project deliverables produced by a senior business analyst as inputs for your elicitation and elaboration work. You'll use these deliverables to learn how to:
- Current State/As-Is Analysis: Use current state analysis to ramp up your domain knowledge and understand customer pain points.
- Future State Design: Use future state design to conceptualize the solution to be delivered.
- Gap Analysis: Use gap analysis to identify the difference between what your customers currently have to what their business needs.
- Feasibility Analysis: Use feasibility analysis to maintain stakeholder alignment throughout the project.
Elicitation & Elaboration
You'll learn to produce 7 artifacts over 4 assignments as part of the case study. These include:
- Process Design: A business process using our BPMN-based swim lane process modeling technique.
- User Stories and Use Cases: A set of user stories and use cases to model the future state user interactions.
- Wireframes and Screen Specs: A set of wireframes and detailed screen specifications to support the user interaction models with additional details.
- Business Rules: Clearly written rules that define the capabilities and constraints that need to be enforced by the system.
- Data Modelling: A data model using standard UML-based data modeling technique.
Methodologies
- ITSM: The role of the business analyst in the ITSM incident & problem management process of a large organization.
- Agile: The role of the business analyst in the agile solution delivery process of a project.
- Product Backlog: How to manage a product backlog that you've adopted from someone else.

James Dean
Business Analyst at & President of the IIBA Ireland Chapter
Course Format
Job shadowing is the most powerful way to learn business analysis.
The project will be presented to you in a case study format giving you everything you need to produce the BA deliverables your stakeholders need.
💼 Job Shadowing / Case Study
You will shadow Justin and Ingrid as they work under Shauna's guidance to overcome the obstacles they face to produce their deliverables. Your assignments ask you to produce the same deliverables as Justin and Ingrid giving you the instructions and guidelines you need to ensure you're capable of creating real-world project deliverables.

🔴 5 Live Workshops
These are structured sessions where we meet live as a class. We cover important course concepts and discuss how these concepts apply in real-world projects.
Instructors are also there to answer questions about the course content, provide help with the assignment, or help students overcome challenges they may be experiencing in their jobs.
🔴 3 Live Office Hours
These are unstructured “drop-in” sess