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Business Analysis: Fundamentals of Requirements Elicitation
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Business Analysis: Fundamentals of Requirements Elicitation

Beginner level course to acquire skills to elicit requirements and start working as a Business Systems Analyst.
Created byTrividh Patel, CBAP
Last updated 1/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn about steps in elicitation and challenges encountered in elicitation
  • Learn to elicit requirements using various techniques such as interviews, document analysis, observation and prototyping
  • Learn to elicit requirements using a case study that is composed of three animated mock interviews and validate the same with a prototype
  • Learn about importance of understanding the underlying business needs for initiating business analysis work

Course content

4 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 36m total length

  • Course Introduction3:17

    In this session, you will get to know more about the course such as purpose of the course, its objectives and course content. You will also get to know about the experiences and qualifications of the mentor.

  • Get The Downloadable Samples and Templates0:09

    This is just a gentle note to let participants know regarding availability of downloadable Templates and Sample Business Analysis Deliverable/ Work Products in the Supplementary Resources section.

  • Introduction to the Key Concepts3:26

    In this article, you will get briefly introduced to key concepts and terms used in this course.

  • Understanding the Business Need7:14

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

  • Understanding the Business Need
  • Introduction to Elicitation11:58

    In this session, you will learn what we mean by elicitation, general steps in elicitation and challenges encountered in elicitation.

  • Introduction to Elicitation

Requirements

  • Although not necessary, any prior knowledge of business analysis concepts and terms would be useful

Description

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.

Who this course is for:

  • Students and New graduates who are learning and developing business analysis skills
  • Professionals with business or domain experience who want to change career into business analysis
  • Professionals from development, testing, quality, sales support, project management and end-users aspiring to play the role of Business Analyst

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