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Get job-ready as a junior business analyst
The route from no experience to a junior business analyst role. Learn to turn requests into the right changes: understand the problem, map the process, write requirements and user stories, and make the business case. Back it up with the data skills employers now expect from BAs (Excel, SQL and Power BI), then present yourself for the job.
What you'll be able to do
CloudTech Business Analyst
Complete every required course to earn the track badge, free, with a credential ID anyone can verify.
Start with Business Analysis FundamentalsWhat business analysts do, and the data basics every BA needs.
Business Analysis Fundamentals
Problems, stakeholders, processes, requirements, user stories and business cases, on a real firm's data.
About 7 hours
How to ask a good question of data and read the answer critically.
About 6 hours
Measure the current state and build a business case in a spreadsheet.
About 7 hours
Get your own numbers from systems, and understand how data is structured.
Answer your own questions from a database instead of waiting for a report.
About 7 hours
Read and specify the data behind a system: entities, keys and relationships.
About 6 hours
Specify, and build, the reports that prove a change worked.
About 8 hours
Go deeper into how BAs work in modern teams.
Agile Business Analysis
Backlogs, refinement, story mapping and working inside a Scrum team.
Process Improvement with BPMN and Lean
Full BPMN notation, value-stream mapping and measuring waste.
Portfolio work that shows you can analyse a real problem end to end.
Measure a law firm's workload, court delays and unpaid bills.
Find the late routes and the customers who owe money.
Turn your skills into applications that get interviews.
An ATS-friendly CV and a LinkedIn profile recruiters can find.
1 hr 30 min
One link that shows your analysis packs and projects.
1 hr 25 min
Find, apply for and interview for your first role.
1 hr 30 min
Courses marked "In preparation" join the track when they're ready. If you've already earned the track badge by then, you keep it.