Bridge business needs and technical solutions
Business Analysis is a crucial role that bridges the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that technology solutions meet business needs. As a business analyst, you will gather and document requirements, analyze business processes, create process flows and diagrams, facilitate meetings, prioritize features, and ensure successful project delivery. This comprehensive roadmap covers requirements elicitation techniques, business process modeling (BPMN), data analysis, SQL, documentation, stakeholder management, agile methodologies, and tools like Jira and Confluence. Business analysts are essential in all industries, from IT and consulting to finance and healthcare. The role requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication, ability to understand both business and technical perspectives, and attention to detail. Modern business analysts often work in agile environments and need to be comfortable with data analysis and basic technical concepts.
6-8 weeks
Responsibilities, skills, career path
Functional, non-functional, business requirements
Waterfall, agile, hybrid methodologies
BRD, FRD, use cases, user stories
8-10 weeks
Conducting stakeholder interviews, asking questions
Facilitating workshops, brainstorming
Job shadowing, process observation
Questionnaires, data collection
8-10 weeks
BPMN, flowcharts, swimlane diagrams
As-is vs to-be, identifying gaps
5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
Use case diagrams, scenarios, actors
8-10 weeks
Queries, joins, data extraction
Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, macros, data analysis
Charts, dashboards, Power BI basics
Trends, patterns, insights
6-8 weeks
User stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement
Creating stories, tracking, reporting
Documentation, collaboration, knowledge base
Balsamiq, basic mockups, UI requirements
6-8 weeks
Identifying stakeholders, power-interest grid
Presentations, reports, status updates
Managing change, resistance, adoption
CBAP, PMI-PBA, IIBA certifications