Business Analysis: Fundamentals of Requirements Elicitation

Course details

Fundamentals of Requirements Elicitation course uses a case-study based approach composed of three animated mock interviews.

This is a beginner level course and hence suitable for those who want to become a business analyst. This course is ideal for those who want to learn requirements elicitation but do not want to spend hundreds of dollars or spend extensive time in self study.

With this business analysis training, you will be able to acquire skills to elicit requirements and will be able to talk confidently about requirements elicitation in your business analyst interviews.

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.

You will learn to elicit requirements using various techniques such as interviews, document analysis, observation and prototyping.

This course includes lectures (with examples wherever possible) to help you learn concepts of requirements elicitation. You will learn 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.