Training & eLearning
For more than 16 years, EBG Consulting’s learning solutions have helped organizations address their problems with product development, businesses analysis, requirements, and team collaboration. Whether you want to improve project outcomes, reduce risk, develop great business analysts, define user needs, achieve compliance, or improve business–IT communications, EBG Consulting can help you achieve your goals.
With EBG Consulting, everything you and your team members learn is grounded in real-world, practical project experience and industry standards. All our courses are designed and delivered by experts who have extensive real-world experience in a variety of industries.
EBG Consulting has earned the designation from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™) of “Charter Member, Endorsed Education Provider”. At the course level, EBG Consulting’s learning solutions have been evaluated by the IIBA and earned the IIBA course endorsement.
The IIBA™ seeks to help its members identify education providers that offer courses on business analysis (BA) that are aligned with the IIBA™ Business Analysis Body of Knowledge™ (BABOK™). Providers that offer these courses and meet specific additional criteria (described below) are designated “endorsed.”
The course must be relevant for business analysts and must provide valuable knowledge and/or information (as determined by the reviewers).
The course must require at least two hours of student activity.
The contents of the course must be in substantial alignment with the IIBA™ BABOK™.
Learning Solutions
EBG Consulting offers a full curriculum of instructor-led, eLearning, and blended learning programs specifically focused on:
Business analysis, requirements development and management
Eliciting business, user, and software requirements
Improving outcomes of iterations and projects
Flexible course formats enable individuals, teams and companies to cost effectively meet their business goals and objectives with essential training. Available formats are listed in the course titles below and will be one or more of the following:
Instructor-led Classroom: Live, face-to-face “traditional” training. Students and instructor gather at the same time in the same place.
Instructor-led eLearning: Live, synchronous training event. Students and instructor meet at the same time in different locations using an Internet connection and a telephone.
Self-paced eLearning: Learning is entirely on learner’s terms. Content is available 24/7 via an Internet connection and a Web browser.
Blended Classroom: Combines Self-paced eLearning and Instructor-led Classroom formats within a single course.
All EBG Consulting Training Offerings
Business Analysis, Requirements Development and Management
| Title | Delivery Mode | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Roadmap to Success: Comprehensive | Instructor-led Classroom: 3 to 4 days | Now |
| Roadmap to Success: Foundation for Requirements Development and Management | Self-Paced eLearning | Now |
| Roadmap to Success: Analysis Modeling | Instructor-led Classroom: 2 days | Now |
| Roadmap to Success: Comprehensive | Blended Classroom | Now |
| Overview: Roadmap to Successful Requirements | Instructor-led Classroom: 1 day | Now |
| Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs | Instructor-led Classroom: 2 days | Now (new) |
Analysis Modeling, In-Depth
| Title | Delivery Mode | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Business Rules: A Roundtrip Journey on the Road to Success | Instructor-led Classroom: 1 day | Now |
| Business Rules: On the Road to Success | Instructor-led eLearning: two 2-hour sessions | Now |
| Essential Data Modeling | Instructor-led Classroom: 1 day | Now |
| Logical Data Modeling | Instructor-led Classroom: 2 days | Now |
| Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements | Instructor-led Classroom: 1/2 day | Now |
| Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements | Instructor-led eLearning: two 2-hour sessions | Now |
Eliciting Business, User, and Software Requirements
| Title | Delivery Mode | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Get the Right Stuff, Fast Using Facilitated JAD Workshops | Instructor-led Classroom: 3 days | Now |
Intermediate and Advanced
Improving Outcomes of Iterations and Projects
| Title | Delivery Mode | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Project Retrospectives and Team Reviews: Benefiting from the Wisdom of Teams | Instructor-led Classroom: 2 or 3 days | Now |
Business Analysis, Requirements Development and Management
Learn the fundamentals and essentials of business analysis and requirements engineering. Particular focus on useful analysis models.
Roadmap to Success:
Comprehensive -
Instructor-led classroom
Learn business analysis and requirements fundamentals. Learn techniques for verifying and validating requirements and ways to apply requirements good practices. You dive into the Requirements Roadmap so you can learn how to build and verify analysis models. The Roadmap is a set of interrelated models (behavioral, structural, dynamic, and control) at varying levels of detail. You also get a rich set of take-homes, including templates, checklists, and examples.
Special feature: EBG’s Requirements Roadmap.
EBG’s Requirements Roadmap is a step-by-step guide to gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements.
Special bonus: each attendee receives a free copy of The Software Requirements Memory Jogger
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
To see how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Roadmap to Success:
Foundation for Requirements Development and Management - Self-paced eLearning,
Now
Quick
view of this foundation curriculum
Learn at your own pace the foundation you need to understand the heart of business analysis: requirements development and management. You will learn about requirements basics, activities to develop and manage requirements, tips for eliciting and documenting requirements, an overview to the Requirements Roadmap for requirements analysis, and steps for adapting and improving your requirements practices to your project. This practical, engaging curriculum features easy navigation, rich content, audio, quick-checks, downloadable tips and templates, and more!
Special bonus: each attendee receives a free copy of The Software Requirements Memory Jogger
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this curriculum maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Roadmap to Success:
Analysis Modeling - Instructor-led classroom
Prerequisite: Foundation Training*
This intensive seminar builds skills in analysis modeling, a crucial activity for successful requirements development. Designed for attendees who have taken our Foundation self-paced offering, this instructor-led seminar dives deep into the Requirements Roadmap so you can learn how to build and verify analysis models. The Roadmap is a set of interrelated models (behavioral, structural, dynamic, and control) at varying levels of detail.
Special feature: EBG’s
Requirements Roadmap.
EBG’s Requirements Roadmap is a step-by-step guide to gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements.
Special bonus: each attendee receives a free copy of The Software Requirements Memory Jogger
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
To see how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Roadmap to Success:
Comprehensive - Self-paced and instructor-led
Classroom (blended eLearning) ,
NowThis comprehensive training blends the best of self-paced eLearning with instructor-led classroom training. This offering combines two training components: EBG Consulting’s Foundation self-paced eLearning curriculum with our Analysis Modeling instructor-led classroom offering. You get an effective blending of two training delivery modes in one comprehensive training package.
Special feature: EBG’s Requirements Roadmap.
EBG’s Requirements Roadmap is a step-by-step guide to gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements.
Special bonus: each attendee receives a free copy of The Software Requirements Memory Jogger
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Overview:
Roadmap to Successful Requirements - Instructor-led classroom
Specially tailored overview version of EBG’s Roadmap to Successful Requirements instructor-led course. Designed for project leaders, business managers, and product development and product owners who need to understand requirements or who manage and lead people who elicit and specify requirements.
Special feature: EBG’s Requirements Roadmap.
EBG’s Requirements Roadmap is a step-by-step guide to gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements.
Special bonus: each attendee receives a free copy of The Software Requirements Memory Jogger
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
This is an overview version of our Roadmap Comprehensive course, which maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Agile Requirements: Collaborating to Define and Confirm Needs
This intensive seminar builds skills in the agile method of developing requirements, the basis for delivering business value to customers on agile projects. Through practice exercises, you will learn the skills you need to define and confirm customer needs. With these skills, you can start building your product or improve your current agile requirements practices.
Special bonus: each attendee receives a free copy of The Software Requirements Memory Jogger
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here.
Analysis Modeling, In-Depth
Learn critical modeling skills to leverage your foundational knowledge and skills for your challenging projects.
Business Rules: A Roundtrip Journey on the Road to Success - Instructor-led classroom.
In-depth training on eliciting, specifying, and managing business rules. These rules define, constrain, or enable the behavior of software or business processes. Learn to define atomic business rules, categorize rules, and trace them.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Business Rules: On the Road to Success - Instructor-led eLearning Learn from our experts in this specially designed version of our instructor-led Business Rules course. In this two-part (2 hours each) tutorial, you will learn how to elicit, specify, and manage business rules. Includes participant guide, exercises, and interactive discussions.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Essential Data
Modeling - Instructor-led classroom. Learn a step-by-step approach to identifying and documenting business and application data requirements.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
The above courses are IIBA/EEP approved
Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements - Instructor-led classroom.Learn how to use “events” to identify and track the business behavior of your business process and system. You'll learn to use event modeling to quickly uncover requirements, prioritize releases, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. Save time and money by using events to scope your project, clarify boundaries, and trace iterations.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle
for Navigating Requirements - Instructor-led eLearning Learn from our experts in this specially designed version of our instructor-led Event Modeling course. In this two-part (90 minutes each) tutorial, you will learn how to use “events” to identify and track the business behavior of your business process and system. Includes participant guide, exercises, and interactive discussions.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here.
The above courses are IIBA/EEP approved.
Logical Data Modeling - Instructor-led classroom. Learn a step-by-step approach to identifying and documenting business and application data requirements. You will create an entity-relationship model and then translate it into third normal form. You'll also learn how to identify and document business rules that govern the integrity of data.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
Eliciting business, user, and software requirements
Learn one of the most effective and efficient ways to discover and verify requirements while also building a healthy project community.
Get the Right Stuff, Fast Using Facilitated JAD Workshops - Instructor-led classroom.Learn the essentials of planning, designing, and running facilitated JAD (Joint Application Development) workshops from the author of the widely acclaimed book Requirements by Collaboration. Features EBG’s framework for designing and leading productive workshops where software development and business team members create, review, and complete important project deliverables. You get a rich set of templates, checklists, sample techniques, and other assets for planning, designing, and facilitating your workshops.
This course is endorsed by the IIBA.
See how this course maps to the IIBA BABOK™, click here
The above course is IIBA/EEP approved
Improving iteration and project outcomes
Benefit from your team’s hard-earned wisdom by reviewing product and process outcomes to implement actions for improving results.
Project Retrospectives and Team Reviews: Benefiting from the Wisdom of Teams - Instructor-led classroom. Learn how to design and facilitate retrospectives and maximize your learning. Learn a sustainable mechanism for improving team and customer communication, work products, and project outcomes. Features numerous simulations and design exercises. You also get a rich set of activities and other assets for planning and designing your retrospectives.
About EBG Consulting’s Instructor-Led Training
In our instructor-led training, you and your team members actively participate in group discussions, simulations, and skill-building exercises. Working in a team format, you’ll practice new skills and extend your current competencies with direct feedback from the instructor.
All EBG Consulting courses include useful materials to help you get the most from your training. You get detailed notes for the slides, freeing you to focus on learning. You also get a toolkit of practical assets—templates, guidelines, checklists, examples, and sample solutions to the exercises. These materials reinforce your new skills and give you fill-in-the-blank documents you can use in your own projects. Each course can be customized to align with the standard terminology and methods used in your organization or industry.
Our Instructors
EBG Consulting’s instructors are professional, experienced trainers who are knowledgeable in their subject matter and its practical applications.
Our instructors:
Ellen Gottesdiener
Mary Gorman
About EBG Consulting’s eLearning
eLearning gives you significant time and cost benefits. EBG Consulting has undertaken several projects to build high-quality eLearning experiences. Each eLearning course we design is tailored to fit its delivery environment and to maximize your learning.
What are the benefits of eLearning?
Heightens the learning experience:
You save on travel costs and time.
Your team members can get critical training no matter where they are located.
You learn in small, highly focused “chunks,” and that helps you better retain your new knowledge.
Is convenient and cost effective:
You spend less time away from your work and more time focused on your individual knowledge and skill gaps, learning at your own pace.
Instructor-led eLearning lets you interact with the instructor even though you are not physically co-located. You use collaboration tools such as chat and whiteboarding.
You get real-time feedback from the instructor, allowing you to practice skills at your own pace.
The short learning sessions in our instructor-led eLearning fit into your daily work schedule.
What is blended eLearning?
EBG Consulting’s blended eLearning offers you learning delivery combinations to meet your needs. For example, our Roadmap to Success: Comprehensive course is a blended eLearning solution that combines self-paced with instructor-led eLearning.
You can also combine two or more courses to customize a blended solution. Here are two examples of using EBG Consulting’s blended eLearning:
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