PRACTICE LAB / APPLY
Learn it. Then do the work.
Realistic, clearly fictional scenarios that ask you to discover, analyse, define and validate—before you compare with a reference approach.
PROJECT FROM SCRATCH
A problem, not a pre-written answer.
Start with a 35% digital-onboarding abandonment problem. Review stakeholder input, business rules, customer feedback and sample data, then build your analysis before opening the reference approach.
Start the project ↗THE LEARNING LOOP
Learn → Practice→ Compare → Improve
Academy lessons link directly to challenges. Each challenge points back to the related concept and a reusable template.
SIMULATED BA WORK
BA projects
Four domains, with context, constraints, tasks and a reasoned reference approach.
E-commerce checkout optimisation
Diagnose abandonment across delivery, payment and confirmation.
Employee HR platform
Digitise leave requests without copying a broken approval process into software.
Digital banking onboarding
Investigate why applicants leave before account creation, then define a safe, measurable improvement.
Payment provider integration
Define the contract, reconciliation and failure paths for a new payment service.
FOCUSED PRACTICE
Individual BA tasks
Short exercises you can complete in 15–25 minutes.
Find the process bottleneck
Map an AS-IS flow and choose a measurable improvement.
Define an onboarding KPI
Make a product metric precise enough to guide a decision.
Find the missing requirements
Challenge a vague onboarding request before anyone writes a solution.
Analyse a payment API requirement
Identify contract gaps and failure paths for a new provider.
Improve a weak user story
Turn a broad request into a testable slice.
Prioritise a constrained backlog
Make trade-offs explicit across customer value, risk and deadlines.
CHECK UNDERSTANDING
Tests & quizzes
Answers include explanations and a recommended next practice step.
API analysis check
Test contract completeness and integration failure thinking.
BA fundamentals check
Test problem framing, stakeholders and requirements.
Data and KPI check
Test metric definitions before drawing product conclusions.
REUSABLE WORKING MATERIAL
BA Template Library
Copy a structured starting point, then adapt it to the business context.
Acceptance criteria
Turn a requirement into observable conditions of satisfaction.
API requirement checklist
Cover contract, security, errors and operations.
Business requirements document
Keep problem, scope and measurable outcomes together.
AS-IS / TO-BE process analysis
Document a flow, its friction and the proposed change.
Discovery questions
A guide for understanding the problem before discussing features.
Data mapping
Trace fields between systems with business meaning.
Product KPI definition
Make a measure decision-ready.
RACI matrix
Make responsibility and sign-off explicit.
Stakeholder analysis
Clarify influence, needs and decision rights.
Requirements traceability matrix
Connect a need to delivery and validation.
User story
A small, outcome-oriented backlog item with testable criteria.
Workshop agenda
Give a discovery session a decision, not just a calendar slot.
UAT test case
Validate an outcome in business language.