Business analysis · Senior track

Senior Business Analyst

Fourteen weeks of live workshops and five projects in five industries. You finish with 36 reviewed deliverables and present your portfolio on Portfolio Day.

Length: 14 weeks
Live sessions: 28
Projects: 5
Deliverables: 36

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Program structure

Fourteen weeks, two live sessions a week.

A 14-week program with a self-paced Week 0 orientation, 28 live workshops and five case projects. The work covers business cases, requirements, solution design, data migration, lean process improvement, compliance and a crisis capstone. Every deliverable is reviewed by an instructor, and the program ends with Portfolio Day.

Duration: 14 Weeks + Week 0 async orientation
Schedule: 2 live sessions/week × 3 hours (28 sessions total)
Contact hours: 84 contact hours (live) + ~260-290 total student hours
Session format: ~25% Instruction · ~50% In-class Workshops · ~25% Framing / Debrief
Homework: ~12-14 hours per week of project work
Weekly commitment: ~18-20 hours per week (capped cohort of 15)

Outcomes

What you'll do in the program

01Work through the full senior BA lifecycle: problem framing, business case, stakeholder alignment, requirements, solution design, UAT, migration, process redesign, compliance and a board recommendation
02Build a portfolio of 36 reviewed deliverables, about 250–280 pages of documentation, across five industries
03Work on five case projects: First Horizon Bank CRM, Precision Parts legacy migration, Summit Distribution order-to-cash lean, StyleHub GDPR compliance and the FitTech omnichannel crisis capstone
04Practise the techniques: NPV/IRR/TCO financials, weighted vendor matrices, BPMN, RTM, IEEE-830 requirements, ADKAR change management, ETL migration strategy, value stream mapping and the 7 wastes, and GDPR requirements
05Take part in a 60-minute stakeholder interview simulation, a 35-minute cutover tabletop, a breach tabletop and a murder-board review, then present your recommendation on Portfolio Day
06Finish Week 14 with a portfolio, a Cross-Project Reflection, 250+ requirements across 4 BRDs, 9+ BPMN models, 150+ business rules and 25+ test cases

Competencies

Learning outcomes

By the end of the program you should be able to do the following.

Strategic analysis

Frame a senior problem statement with measurable success criteria and executive hypothesis
Run a financial analysis (NPV, IRR, payback, TCO) and defend the numbers in a business case
Build weighted vendor decision matrices and score 5+ competing vendor packages
Write a business case and a 5-slide executive deck, and present a board recommendation on Portfolio Day

Requirements

Run 7 requirements elicitation techniques end-to-end (interviews, workshops, observation, document analysis, prototyping, surveys, JAD)
Interview a resistant subject-matter expert in a live 60-minute simulation
Author a BRD with an embedded RTM (250+ requirements across 4 BRDs over the program)
Extract 150+ business rules from a legacy system and translate them into a migration BRD

Stakeholders

Build a Stakeholder Matrix across power × interest × influence and plan targeted engagement
Navigate conflicting exec agendas and facilitate consensus without formal authority
Run stakeholder Hot Seats and respond to hostile board-level questions with structured answers
Take part in a breach tabletop and a murder-board rehearsal, both scored by instructors

Process and change

Document current-state processes with BPMN and identify 7 wastes via value stream mapping
Redesign future-state processes and quantify improvement in cycle time, lead time, and rework
Run an ADKAR-based Change Management Plan and a full UAT Plan + Go/No-Go decision matrix
Translate regulation (GDPR-style) into a Compliance Requirements Analysis + Implementation Plan

Delivery and migration

Plan a legacy-to-target data migration: ETL design, validation rules and a 3-phase cutover runbook
Run a tabletop cutover crisis simulation and rewrite the runbook based on observed failure modes
Produce a phased Implementation Roadmap with quick wins, KPIs, and governance
Organise 36 deliverables into a portfolio a hiring manager can review

Communication

Write about 250–280 pages of professional documentation across the program
Present complex analyses in 5-slide executive decks and 3-minute stand-up formats
Facilitate workshops of 10+ participants through conflict to a decision
Deliver a Cross-Project Reflection that integrates lessons learned across 5 projects

Projects

Five projects, five industries

Banking, manufacturing, distribution, e-commerce and an omnichannel retail capstone, ending with Portfolio Day in Week 14.

Project 01

Weeks 1-5 · Sessions S1-S10

Banking

First Horizon Bank: CRM transformation

End-to-end BA Lifecycle (Waterfall)

Senior BA driving First Horizon's digital transformation: problem framing, financial analysis, vendor selection, business case, stakeholder alignment, requirements, solution design, and UAT planning

Deliverables

D1 Problem Statement: senior framing with hypothesis & success metrics
D2 Financial Analysis Worksheet: NPV / IRR / Payback / TCO with sensitivity
D3 Weighted Vendor Evaluation Matrix (5 candidate vendors scored)
D4 Business Case + D5 Executive Presentation (5-slide board deck)
D6 Stakeholder Matrix (power × interest × influence)
D7 Project Charter with governance + gap analysis appendix
D8 Interview Notes (from live elicitation) + D9 BRD with embedded RTM
D10 Solution Design Package (BPMN + integrations + data model)
D11 Change Management Plan (ADKAR) + D12 UAT Plan with test scenarios

The hard parts

Frame a problem statement a CFO would fund, rather than a list of requirements
Defend NPV/IRR/TCO numbers under CFO questioning
Win a live executive presentation + stakeholder panel in Week 3
Run 7 elicitation techniques and author a BRD with a full RTM
Design a solution (BPMN + integrations + data) and hand off a working UAT plan

SkillsSenior problem framing with measurable success criteria · BA-grade financial analysis (NPV, IRR, Payback, TCO) · Weighted decision frameworks for vendor / option evaluation · Executive storytelling and 5-slide board decks · Requirements engineering end-to-end (elicitation → BRD → RTM → solution design) · ADKAR change management + UAT planning

Project 02

Weeks 6-8 · Sessions S11-S16

Manufacturing

Precision Parts Manufacturing: legacy migration

Tribal-Knowledge Extraction + Migration

Senior BA running the legacy migration: discovery planning, system archaeology, business rules extraction, migration BRD, cutover runbook

Deliverables

D13 Discovery Plan (tribal-knowledge systems + stakeholder psychology)
D14 System Capabilities Inventory + integration landscape
D15 Business Process Documentation (from live 60-min Earl Jackson interview simulation)
D16 Business Rules Catalog (target ~150 extracted rules)
D17 Migration BRD (25-30 pages, 80-90 requirements)
D18 Data Migration Plan (ETL design + validation rules)
D19 Migration Execution Plan (3-phase cutover runbook, rewritten after the 35-min tabletop crisis sim)

The hard parts

There is no documentation: work out capabilities from a live system and a resistant SME
Run the 60-minute Earl Jackson stakeholder interview simulation
Extract about 150 business rules and write a Migration BRD a development team could build from
Design a 3-phase data migration with validation rules and rollback criteria
Run a 35-minute tabletop cutover crisis sim and rewrite the runbook based on what broke

SkillsDiscovery planning for undocumented systems · Stakeholder psychology for reluctant SMEs · System archaeology + capabilities + integration inventory · Business rules extraction at scale · Migration BRD authoring (individual output, not team output) · ETL strategy, validation rules, cutover runbooks, and crisis simulation

Project 03

Weeks 9-10 · Sessions S17-S20

B2B distribution

Summit Distribution Partners: order-to-cash lean

Lean / VSM / Process Redesign

Senior BA leading the order-to-cash lean transformation: current state VSM, 7 wastes analysis, future state redesign, process improvement BRD, phased roadmap

Deliverables

D20 Current State VSM (with cycle time, lead time, rework rates)
D21 7-Waste Analysis Report
D22 Future State VSM with quantified improvement
D23 Process Improvement BRD (governance + stakeholder engagement as appendices)
D24 Phased Implementation Roadmap (quick wins + KPIs)

The hard parts

Map an order-to-cash flow with numbers attached, not an idealised diagram
Identify 7 wastes and quantify the improvement (not just label them)
Redesign the future state without pretending away handoffs
Pitch a phased roadmap with quick wins and KPIs to a sceptical operations lead
Keep governance and stakeholder engagement inside the BRD instead of separate documents

SkillsValue Stream Mapping (current + future state) · 7 wastes (muda) analysis with quantification · Process improvement BRD authoring · Phased implementation roadmaps + KPI design · Governance embedded inside a single deliverable

Project 04

Weeks 11-12 · Sessions S21-S24

E-commerce (EU)

StyleHub E-Commerce: GDPR compliance

Regulatory Translation + Compliance

Senior BA translating GDPR into testable technical requirements, leading data discovery, authoring the compliance solution, and running the breach tabletop

Deliverables

D25 Compliance Requirements Analysis: regulation → testable requirements with integrated gap analysis
D26 Data Inventory: ~100 classified data elements
D27 Solution Recommendation + D28 RTM + D29 Integration Spec
D30 Compliance Implementation Plan (post-breach tabletop) with audit readiness appendix

The hard parts

Translate regulatory language into requirements a development team can test
Run data discovery + classification across ~100 data elements
Design a compliance solution with an RTM and integration spec that fit together
Run a breach tabletop (incident response under time pressure)
Produce an audit-ready implementation plan with evidence mapping

SkillsRegulatory translation (legal text → technical requirements) · Data discovery + classification for compliance scope · Compliance solution architecture (RTM + integration + implementation) · Breach / incident tabletop facilitation · Audit readiness and evidence mapping

Project 05

Weeks 13-14 · Sessions S25-S28

Omnichannel retail

FitTech Retail: omnichannel crisis capstone

Crisis capstone drawing on of all 4 prior projects

Senior BA dropped into an omnichannel retail crisis: rapid assessment, options analysis under murder-board pressure, a recommended solution for the board, and Portfolio Day defense

Deliverables

D31 Crisis Assessment Report (from a live briefing pack, time-pressured)
D32 Options Analysis across 4 strategic paths, defended in the murder-board
D33 Recommended Solution + D34 Board Presentation (board deck, rehearsed under instructor critique)
D35 Portfolio: all 36 deliverables organised for a hiring manager
D36 Cross-Project Reflection: lessons across Projects 1–5

The hard parts

Assess an omnichannel crisis quickly from a briefing pack
Analyse 4 strategic options and defend your choice in the instructor murder-board
Present a board recommendation and answer questions on it
Assemble 36 deliverables into a portfolio a hiring manager can review
Write a 3-page Cross-Project Reflection covering all five projects

SkillsCrisis-mode rapid assessment under time pressure · Options analysis and defending it in a murder-board · board recommendation delivery · Portfolio assembly for senior-BA hiring · Cross-project synthesis and reflective writing

Fit

Who the senior track is for

It assumes some professional experience. If you're starting from scratch, the Junior BA track is the better place to begin.

A good fit

Career changers with 3+ years of professional experience ready to step into a senior BA role
Junior and mid-level BAs who want a portfolio and senior techniques (legacy migration, VSM, compliance requirements, board recommendations)
Project coordinators, PMs, and delivery leads transitioning into Senior BA
Domain experts (finance, healthcare, operations, retail) adding formal BA practice to a strong functional background
Professionals in adjacent roles (QA, Product, Operations, Change) upskilling to Senior BA

Not the right fit

Complete beginners with no professional experience. The program assumes you can run a meeting with stakeholders.
Those looking for data analyst or data science skills (SQL, Python, Power BI), which aren't covered
Those looking for PMP, Scrum Master, or product management training
Those unable to commit ~18-20 hours per week consistently for 14 weeks

Roles it prepares you for

Senior business analyst · Lead business analyst · Business systems analyst · Process improvement analyst · Change management analyst · Requirements lead · Digital transformation analyst

What you leave with

A body of work you can walk an interviewer through.

Each deliverable is reviewed by an instructor. On Portfolio Day you present your work and defend it.

A portfolio of 36 reviewed deliverables from 5 projects in 5 industries (banking, manufacturing, B2B distribution, e-commerce, omnichannel retail)
84 PD hours applicable to IIBA / PMI certification applications
Experience from 5 case projects: First Horizon Bank CRM, Precision Parts legacy migration, Summit Distribution order-to-cash lean, StyleHub GDPR compliance and the FitTech omnichannel crisis capstone
About 250–280 pages of documentation: 250+ requirements across 4 BRDs, 9+ BPMN models, 150+ business rules and 25+ test cases
Practice under time pressure: a 60-minute stakeholder interview simulation, a 35-minute cutover tabletop, a breach tabletop and a murder-board review
A Cross-Project Reflection that pulls together lessons learned across all five projects
Working practice with Google Workspace, Miro, Azure DevOps, Slack, Notion and Zoom

Curriculum

Week by week

Two 3-hour live sessions a week: 28 workshops, 5 projects and 36 deliverables.

WeekTopicIn the live sessionsBetween sessions

Week 00

Async orientation

Before Week 1

DueSigned learner contract + Week 0 skills baseline

In the live sessions

Pre-work (6-8 hrs) before live sessions begin: Slack onboarding, tooling setup, BA context primer, program norms, and a personal senior-BA skills baseline.

Between sessions

Set up and test the tools (Azure DevOps, Miro, Slack, Zoom), read the First Horizon case pack, post an intro in Slack and submit a skills self-assessment.

Week 01

Problem framing and financial analysis

Project 1 · First Horizon Bank

DueD1 Problem Statement · D2 Financial Analysis Worksheet

In the live sessions

S1 BA Foundations & First Horizon Bank case intro; the senior problem statement. S2 Financial analysis for BAs (NPV, IRR, payback, TCO) and how to defend the numbers.

Between sessions

Write D1 Problem Statement for First Horizon. Build D2 Financial Analysis Worksheet with NPV/IRR/Payback/TCO and a sensitivity scenario.

Week 02

Vendor evaluation, business case and executive deck

Project 1 · First Horizon Bank

DueD3 Vendor Matrix · D4 Business Case · D5 Exec Presentation

In the live sessions

S3 Weighted vendor evaluation: criteria, weights, scoring, tie-breakers. S4 Business case writing + executive storytelling: the 5-slide deck and the 90-second pitch.

Between sessions

Score 5 candidate vendors on a D3 Vendor Matrix; build a D4 Business Case; draft a D5 Exec Presentation (5 slides) and rehearse the 90-second version.

Week 03

Executive alignment, charter and governance

Project 1 · First Horizon Bank

DueD6 Stakeholder Matrix · D7 Project Charter

In the live sessions

S5 Live exec presentation + stakeholder analysis (power × interest × influence). S6 Project Charter + governance model + embedded gap analysis.

Between sessions

Present D5 to a mock exec panel; map stakeholders on D6 Stakeholder Matrix; author D7 Project Charter with governance + gap analysis appendix.

Week 04

Requirements elicitation and the BRD with RTM

Project 1 · First Horizon Bank

DueD8 Interview Notes · D9 BRD with RTM

In the live sessions

S7 Seven elicitation techniques (interviews, workshops, observation, doc analysis, prototyping, surveys, JAD). S8 Functional requirements, NFRs, and the Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Between sessions

Run a live elicitation session and write D8 Interview Notes; author D9 BRD with RTM covering functional requirements, NFRs and traceability.

Week 05

Solution design, change management and UAT

Project 1 · First Horizon Bank

DueD10 Solution Design · D11 Change Mgmt Plan · D12 UAT Plan

In the live sessions

S9 Solution design: BPMN, integration landscape, data model. S10 Change management with ADKAR + UAT planning.

Between sessions

Produce D10 Solution Design Package (BPMN, integrations, data). Author D11 Change Management Plan (ADKAR) and D12 UAT Plan with test scenarios.

Week 06

Legacy discovery planning and system archaeology

Project 2 · Precision Parts

DueD13 Discovery Plan · D14 System Capabilities Inventory

In the live sessions

S11 Discovery planning for tribal-knowledge systems + stakeholder psychology (reluctant SMEs). S12 System archaeology: capabilities inventory + integration landscape.

Between sessions

Write D13 Discovery Plan for Precision Parts. Run system archaeology and produce D14 System Capabilities Inventory with integration map.

Week 07

Interview simulation and business rules extraction

Project 2 · Precision Parts

DueD15 Business Process Docs · D16 Business Rules Catalog · D17 Migration BRD

In the live sessions

S13 Live 60-min Earl Jackson stakeholder interview simulation with a resistant SME you have to unblock. S14 Business rules extraction + Migration BRD authoring.

Between sessions

Run the 60-minute interview and write D15 Business Process Documentation. Extract D16 Business Rules Catalog (target 150 rules) and draft D17 Migration BRD.

Week 08

Data migration strategy and cutover runbook

Project 2 · Precision Parts

DueD18 Data Migration Plan · D19 Migration Execution Plan

In the live sessions

S15 Data migration strategy: ETL, validation rules, 3-phase cutover. S16 Cutover runbook + 35-min tabletop crisis simulation (things go wrong at 02:00 on cutover night).

Between sessions

Author D18 Data Migration Plan with validation rules. Run the tabletop sim and rewrite D19 Migration Execution Plan based on what broke.

Week 09

Current and future state value stream mapping

Project 3 · Summit Distribution

DueD20 Current State VSM · D21 Waste Report · D22 Future State VSM

In the live sessions

S17 Current state VSM + 7 wastes analysis. S18 Future state VSM + process redesign with quantified improvement.

Between sessions

Build D20 Current State VSM for Summit Distribution's order-to-cash. Publish D21 Waste Report. Redesign flow into D22 Future State VSM with cycle-time / lead-time / rework improvements.

Week 10

Process improvement BRD and implementation roadmap

Project 3 · Summit Distribution

DueD23 Process Improvement BRD · D24 Implementation Roadmap

In the live sessions

S19 Process improvement BRD + governance (governance goes in an appendix, not a separate document). S20 Phased roadmap + quick wins + KPI design.

Between sessions

Author D23 Process Improvement BRD with embedded governance + stakeholder engagement plan. Build D24 Implementation Roadmap with quick wins and KPI targets.

Week 11

GDPR requirements and data discovery

Project 4 · StyleHub

DueD25 Compliance Requirements · D26 Data Inventory

In the live sessions

S21 Regulatory translation: turning legal text into testable technical requirements + gap analysis. S22 Data discovery + classification for compliance scope.

Between sessions

Author D25 Compliance Requirements Analysis (regulation → requirements) with integrated gap analysis. Build D26 Data Inventory with ~100 classified data elements.

Week 12

Compliance solution design and breach tabletop

Project 4 · StyleHub

DueD27 Solution Rec · D28 RTM · D29 Integration Spec · D30 Implementation Plan

In the live sessions

S23 Solution options + RTM + integration spec (compliance edition). S24 Compliance implementation plan + breach tabletop (incident response under pressure).

Between sessions

Produce D27 Solution Recommendation, D28 RTM, D29 Integration Spec. Run the breach tabletop and author D30 Compliance Implementation Plan with audit readiness appendix.

Week 13

Capstone: crisis assessment and options analysis

Project 5 · FitTech Retail

DueD31 Crisis Assessment · D32 Options Analysis

In the live sessions

S25 Capstone kickoff: FitTech omnichannel crisis briefing + rapid assessment under time pressure. S26 Options analysis + live murder-board where instructors pressure-test your recommendation.

Between sessions

Write D31 Crisis Assessment Report from a briefing pack. Build D32 Options Analysis across 4 strategic paths and defend it in the live murder-board.

Week 14

Board recommendation, Portfolio Day and graduation

Project 5 · FitTech Retail

DueD33 Recommended Solution · D34 Board Presentation · D35 Portfolio · D36 Cross-Project Reflection

In the live sessions

S27 Recommended Solution + Board deck + rehearsal under instructor critique. S28 Portfolio Day + Graduation (4-hour session): present 3 case studies, defend them, and close the program with a Cross-Project Reflection.

Between sessions

Finalize D33 Recommended Solution and D34 Board Presentation; publish D35 Portfolio (all 36 deliverables organised for a hiring manager) and submit D36 Cross-Project Reflection integrating lessons across all 5 projects.

Outside the live sessions

Week 0 orientation: 6–8 hours of self-paced pre-work: Slack, tool setup, the case primer and a skills baseline.
Between sessions: Slack, peer review and a short feedback form after each session.
Capstone: The FitTech Retail omnichannel crisis, a murder-board review and Portfolio Day.
Cohort size: Capped at 15 students so every deliverable gets instructor time.
Session format: Roughly 25% instruction, 50% workshop and 25% debrief. Most of the building happens in class.

Tools

What you'll work in

Set up in Week 0 and used from the first session.

Google Workspace: Documents, spreadsheets and decks for every deliverable
Miro: Stakeholder maps, process maps and remote workshops
Azure DevOps: Backlog, user stories and boards
Slack: Cohort channel, peer review and instructor questions
Notion: Templates, rubrics and session recordings
Zoom: Live sessions and stakeholder simulations

Two levels

Senior or junior?

Pick the track that matches your experience. You can read the other program's page before enrolling.

	Senior BAThis page	Junior BAFoundational
Length	14 weeks	12 weeks
Projects	5 individual projects, 36 deliverables	4 projects, team-based assignments
Focus	Business cases, migration, lean, compliance, crisis capstone	Foundations, Agile basics, wireframes, UAT
Certification	84 PD hours (IIBA/PMI eligible)	ECBA-aligned
Tuition	$1,899.00	$1,299.00

Tuition

Pricing and payment

Some cohorts offer early-bird pricing, shown here when it applies.

Senior BA

$1,899.00

14 weeks · full portfolio · certificate on completion

Junior BA · $1,299.0012 weeks · foundational track · separate enrollment

Payment: Full payment required at registration.
Refund policy: 100% until the end of Week 1, 50% until the end of Week 2, no refunds after Week 2.

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