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Free Business Analysis Fundamentals for IT Professionals
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Free Business Analysis Fundamentals for IT Professionals

You will get motivation with confidence about Business Analysis area and might want to become a Business Analyst
Created byMichael Nasonov
Last updated 11/2025
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What you'll learn

  • You will learn well-structured Business Analysis Fundamentals
  • You will learn who is a Business Analyst and what are the work performance responsibilities
  • You will learn desired specific skills set needed by Business Analyst in IT Industry
  • You will learn Software Development Project Life Cycle
  • You will learn IT Industry Business Analysis Phases
  • You will look for each Business Analysis Phase process in detail
  • You will receive realistic answers for your questions about Business Analyst position
  • Upon course completions, you will see "The Whole Picture" all about Business Analysis occupation and expected job duties

Course content

4 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 51m total length

  • Greetings from Instructor0:30

    Learn business analysis the right way with a fast-track approach that demystifies the field for IT startup beginners, quality assurance specialists, and developers aiming to become business analysts or managers.

  • Welcome to Business Analysis1:01

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  • Information Technology Definition1:42

    Define information technology as the use of computerized systems to protect, access, manage, process, and exchange information. Integrate software, hardware, and networks to support operations, workflows, and customer interactions.

  • Information Technology Project Types2:14
  • All about Business Analysis2:29
  • Business Analyst role and responsibilities3:27
  • Special Business Analyst skills set within IT Industry13:36
  • Software Development Project Life Cycle3:04
  • Sottware Product Development Life Cycles4:00

    Explore five project development life cycles—waterfall, iterative, incremental, agile, and hybrid—and how they handle scope, time, and cost through initiation, planning, development, and deployment.

  • Business Analyst Underlying Competencies2:52

    Develop analytical thinking and problem solving while mastering business knowledge, communication and interaction skills, and tools and technology knowledge to collaborate with stakeholders and deliver effective functional requirements.

  • Business Analysis Key Concepts1:45
  • Business Analyst Process Stakeholders6:17

    Map the business analysis process stakeholders, from regulators and sponsors to users, customers, suppliers, and project managers. Engage domain SMEs, developers, DBAs, and testers in end-to-end and acceptance testing.

Requirements

  • No prerequisites required - you will learn all you might need for Business Analysis
  • All you need is your positive attitude, some spare time and willingness to learn

Description

Please read below corresponding information, before enrolling into this course.

This course has been designed to provide a student with maximum organized and structured information within two hours time limit, fulfill a complete understanding about all potential Business Analyst occupation job related duties with knowledge processes and requires a capacity level to absorb an informational volume.


You will be provided with necessary for beginner information, regarding  Business Analysis and related occupational applicable processes roadmap.

Please note, that original intended audience are people working within IT Industry, so specific topics are included in addition to general Business Analysis.

At the end of the course, I will answer some standard occupation related questions, based on my personal subjective career experience, to encourage and motivate you.


A Business Analyst is a person, who desires to learn about Business Analysis in a systematic approach to understand a performing organization's needs or opportunities, to determine and propose solutions to business problems, implement changes to existing processes and workflows, systems or organizational structure and provide an alternative resolution.


A Business Analysis is professional discipline focused on identifying business needs, assessing potential solutions and implementing changes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Business analysts, who perform this work duties, are essentially problem-solvers who translate business needs into actionable plans.


A business analyst role is not strictly an IT job unless a business analyst chooses to specialize in the information technology industry.

Business analysts for other industries are expected to have some knowledge about IT and key business software, but they're not typically classified as IT employees.


Additional useful information regarding Business Analyst role and responsibilities:

Three major Business Analyst soft skills

Communication and presentation skills as business analysts are the liaison between technical and non-technical project stakeholders, requiring clear and concise communication

Problem-solving and critical thinking

Interpersonal and negotiation skills


Business Analysis 5C is a marketing framework to analyze the environment in which a company operates and provides insight into the key drivers of success, as well as the risk exposure to various environmental factors.

The 5Cs are Company, Collaborators, Customers, Competitors, and Context.

Who this course is for:

  • Any person, who wants to learn about Business Analysis and Business Analyst occupation
  • Any beginner or already employed person, who wants to be promoted to Business Analyst occupation

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