Advanced Business Analyst Pathway

Your Path to Expertise: Unlock Success with Business Analysis and Data skills.

Why choose the Advanced Business Analyst Pathway?

The industry

The business analysis industry offers a dynamic career path where you can drive meaningful change by bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions. As a Business Analyst, you'll play a pivotal role in problem-solving, optimising processes, and enabling organisations to achieve their strategic goals. With growing demand across industries, a career in business analysis provides excellent opportunities for professional growth, versatility, and long-term career stability.

Opportunities

Working as a Business Analyst opens doors to diverse industries, allowing you to collaborate on projects ranging from technology implementation to process optimisation. It offers the opportunity to develop critical skills in problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management, which are highly valued in leadership roles. With career progression paths into project management, data analysis, or executive strategy, the role provides a solid foundation for long-term professional growth and success.

Job insights

Here are some potential job roles you could pursue after completing this pathway:

Junior Business Analyst

Assists in gathering and analysing requirements, supporting project teams with documentation and basic process evaluations under supervision.

Senior Business Analyst

Leads the analysis and documentation of complex business processes, bridges gaps between stakeholders, and ensures solutions align with strategic goals.

Lead Business Analyst

Oversees multiple projects or teams, mentors analysts, drives strategic decision-making, and ensures overall business analysis practices align with organizational objectives.

Accreditors

We make sure we provide our students with the most relevant, industry standard content, which is why this course is made up of material accredited by the following education leaders.

BCS | British Computer Society

At Learning People, we’re proud to partner with the British Computer Society (BCS), a prestigious professional body that has been setting global standards for IT excellence since 1957. With over 72,000 members in 150 countries, BCS is dedicated to raising standards of competence and ethics in the IT industry, making it a pivotal, reputable resource for anyone pursuing a tech career.

APMG

APMG is a trusted global accreditation body known for its rigorous standards and credibility. Their accreditation ensures that Learning People’s courses meet industry benchmarks, providing learners with high-quality, career-ready skills. APMG's reputation strengthens trust and value in professional certifications for lifelong success.

Skillsoft

At Learning People, we believe in delivering exceptional learning experiences that empower individuals to achieve their career goals. That’s why we’ve partnered with Skillsoft, a global leader in e-learning and professional development, to provide our students with world-class training and resources.

CompTIA

The leading global IT trade association, CompTIA, gives the industry a unified voice and real leadership in the IT community. As a non-profit organisation, CompTIA offers a unique range of training courses that validate your IT skills without restricting you to individual product suites.

Modules breakdown

Module 1: Business Analysis

Role of a Business Analyst
Evaluating options to improve business
Investigation techniques
Managing stakeholders
Creating business cases
Documentation & validating requirements

Role of a Business Analyst
Evaluating options to improve business
Investigation techniques
Managing stakeholders
Creating business cases
Documentation & validating requirements

Module 2: Principles of Agile

Apply the principles of Agile PM in a project situation
Configure the life cycle of an Agile project
Understand and assign roles & responsibilities within an agile project
Mechanisms for governance and control of an Agile project
Understand how to test, estimate and measure progress
Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing requirements

Apply the principles of Agile PM in a project situation
Configure the life cycle of an Agile project
Understand and assign roles & responsibilities within an agile project
Mechanisms for governance and control of an Agile project
Understand how to test, estimate and measure progress
Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing requirements

Module 3: Change Management

Structured approaches to change techniques
How to read the organisational context for change
Human responses to change
How teams can facilitate organisational change
Essential communication principles
How to select and effectively utilise key metrics for evaluation change

Structured approaches to change techniques
How to read the organisational context for change
Human responses to change
How teams can facilitate organisational change
Essential communication principles
How to select and effectively utilise key metrics for evaluation change

Module 4: Data Analytics (CompTIA Data+)

Data manipulation techniques
Data analytics tools
Data visualisation
Storytelling with data
Query optimization
Inferential statistical methods
Data governance
Creating charts and graphs

Data manipulation techniques
Data analytics tools
Data visualisation
Storytelling with data
Query optimization
Inferential statistical methods
Data governance
Creating charts and graphs

Module 5: Business Skills and Foundation Excel Skills

Influence & persuasion, how to drive ideas forward
How to improve written communication skills
Building business cases – how to gain buy in
Creating clear and effective presentations
Critical thinking skills
Managing risk and evaluating impact
Foundation Excel skills

Influence & persuasion, how to drive ideas forward
How to improve written communication skills
Building business cases – how to gain buy in
Creating clear and effective presentations
Critical thinking skills
Managing risk and evaluating impact
Foundation Excel skills

Exams

Upon completion of your pathway, you'll have gained these four industry recognised certifications.

BCS Foundation in Business Analysis

1 x 60 minute, closed book exam, multiple-choice questions.

Agile Foundation

1 x 40 minute, closed book exam, multiple-choice questions.

Change Management Foundation

1 x 40 minute, closed-book exam, multiple-choice questions.

CompTIA Data+

1 x 90 minute exam, multiple-choice questions.

Unlock the power of AI for smarter project management:

As project management evolves in an AI-driven world, today’s professionals must be equipped with both technical and ethical skills to lead effectively.

Our AI for manager modules are included as standard on all Learning People project management pathways and are curated to help project managers integrate AI confidently and responsibly enhancing efficiency, strengthening risk management, and ensuring that technological innovation is balanced with ethical leadership.

What you'll learn:

Introduction to GenAI for Project Managers

Key prompting techniques stylization, formatting, and restriction
How to create a custom GPT aligned to a project context
How to use AI to generate stakeholder analysis and product breakdown structures
Visualisation techniques and ethical prompting practices

Gen AI for Project Managers – Risk Management

Apply tools to improve your existing risk management strategies
Automatically create risk registers, assess complex cultural and human factors
Build your own custom GPTs tailored to the specific needs of your project
Profile charts

Ethics in an AI world

Core ethical concepts
Distinctions between legal compliance and ethical behaviour
Key concerns on covert AI use, discrimination, and autonomy
Global frameworks like the Asilomar AI Principles and EU guidelines
Guidance for integrating ethical codes

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