Course Catalog

Business Analysis Certificate
The Uncommon League’s Business Analysis Certificate is consistently rated one of the best in the business. The Business Analysis Certificate is a foundations program comprised of 6 courses spanning 9 days of training.

Planning & Estimating
When there isn’t a one-size fits all approach to analysis, we need to take time at the beginning of the project to plan out what it will take to ensure that requirements are well understood and well documented.

Documenting & Managing
Once you’ve elicited and modeled, there’s a good chance you need to create some type of documentation to ensure that requirements are well understood. Whether you are working in a traditional, plan-driven environment or in an agile-like situation, this course will help you write well-formed requirements. We’ll also work through where the business analyst fits in to the project process after the requirements are documented. Prioritization, traceability, and testing, oh my!

Analysis & Modeling
There’s more to the BA role than just taking notes or scribing at meetings. This course helps us put the analysis in the Business Analyst! Let’s create order from the chaos and create a deeper understanding of what was uncovered during the elicitation process. We’ll learn the nuts and bolts of modeling as well as how to use models as an alternative elicitation method, and how to extract requirements from models.

Stakeholders & Elicitation
In order to be effective during elicitation and to ensure a complete understanding of requirements, we need to identify and analyze who the stakeholders are and what makes them tick. Once we know who we’re working with and their motivations for the initiative, we can focus on facilitating effective collaborative elicitation sessions. We’ll explore a model for requirements elicitation, including how to select elicitation techniques that will help you reach your goals. We aren’t known as the technique guys for nothing! We’ll discuss and practice several classic and modern elicitation techniques too!

Vision & Scope
How are projects or initiatives created and defined? When is strategy defined and how is it communicated? When should we build bespoke software or purchase something from a vendor? How can we understand the scope of an effort and communicate it clearly?

Intro to Business Analysis
If you’ve ever wondered what business analysis is all about, or what it would take to become a business analyst, this introduction course is for you! Whatever your situation, this course is a great way to understand what Business Analysis is and how these competencies and techniques are crucial for anyone who works on projects.

Business Analysis Boot Camp
The Uncommon League and Bob the BA have one of the Top 10 Business Analyst Boot Camps, according to Sarah K. White Senior Writer at

How to Play at Work (but still get stuff done)
Gamification is everywhere, from keeping our brains limber playing Words With Friends to earning achievement badges for completing annual security training. Game techniques combine our need for achievement with the comfort of rules and process. Even with our shift into virtual workplaces, we crave normal, yet we need some productive fun too. How do you get engagement when we’re all working from home? Let’s go beyond sticky notes and learn some of The Uncommon League’s favorite games that get project work done, no matter how far apart we are (literally and figuratively).

Tools & Tricks for a Virtual Analyst
Facilitation is a tough skill to master when we can be in the same room with participants. In a virtual work world, we can’t let

Elicitation & Collaboration in a Virtual Environment
In a world where working from home is the new normal, who shall rise victorious from the Collaboration Games? (Did you read that in a

Right Size Your Stories: Splitting, Defining & Refining
A legend is sung of when England was young and knights were brave and bold…. Wait, that’s not the story… (though kudos to anyone who

Driving Innovation in a Virtual World
When asked to create unique, innovative solutions where do we start? Be creative “on demand?” What if we run into a roadblock? Don’t give up! Let’s challenge the norm, identify a new outlandish goal, and abandon old paradigms.

Uplift Your Skills with Webinar Wednesdays
Attend a free skills webinar with The Uncommon League to get that hump-day skills boost. Block your calendar now for the third Wednesday of every month.

Modern Techniques V3
Hit me with that technique class one more time! Our newest techniques class focuses on techniques never before seen by the public. These are specially

The Agile Project Manager
Has your organization been swinging around the Agile magic wand trying to make project management disappear? Are you getting pressure to be more Agile, but

Leading and Working on Virtual Projects
Are you wearing pants on your video call? Cultural barriers, time zones, bad connections, feeling disconnected, and wardrobe malfunctions can make virtual projects challenging. That

Project Management for Non-PMs
Everyone on the team just doesn’t seem to be speaking the same language and there seems to be an increasing number of “gotchas” happening. The

Modern Techniques V2
Whoops! We did it again! Version 1 of this class has been the #1 rated workshop at all Business Analysis/Project World events for 3 years

Modern Techniques V1
Come see why this class has been the #1 rated workshop at all Business Analysis/Project Management World events for 3 years running! At the Uncommon

Change Management in the Virtual Work World
Change is constant. It always has been and now more than ever as we operate in virtual environments. Employees today find that they must shift

Influence Without Authority in a Virtual Work Environment
Influencing without authority is difficult enough when you can meet people in person but what about when you have to do it virtually? The key

How to Deal with Difficult People
Come see why clients of The Uncommon League call this class one of their favorites! Wouldn’t it be great if everyone operated by the golden

Embracing the Journey
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Critical Thinking Skills & Techniques
The importance of using critical thinking skills cannot be stressed enough when you think of the millions of dollars organizations waste every day. Critical thinkers

Influence Without Authority
Do you get what you want at work? Do you feel like you have exhausted every possible option to get your team or your boss

The Agile Business Analyst – Focused
Don’t have time for an in-depth 2 day course? This focused course will how the Business Analyst fits into the team and how business analysis

Modern Business Analysis Techniques
If you struggle with not getting enough information or time from stakeholders to get the job done you may want to rethink the techniques you

Business Analysis Planning & Estimating
This course brings together business analysis tasks and activities to create a business analysis work plan. Learn to identify and analyze stakeholders in order to

Writing Better User Stories
Writing user stories is harder than you think. Trying to capture the functionality the user wants is not always simple. User stories are one of the most

Introduction to Business Analysis
This course is appropriate for anyone that is interested in learning what it Business Analysis is all about, what it takes to become a Business

Solution Scope and Requirements Elicitation
This course is appropriate for anyone that needs to learn how to scope project solutions and elicit requirements. You will learn what it takes to

The Agile Business Analyst – In Depth
If your company is making the leap to Agile and you’re wondering where you fit in, this course is for you. There are many approaches

Analyzing and Modeling Requirements
This course is appropriate for anyone that needs to learn how analyze and model requirements to support high quality Business Analysis work. Participants will practice

Managing and Documenting Requirements
This course is appropriate for anyone that needs to learn how to write narrative requirements to support high quality Business Analysis work. Participants will practice

The Agile Product Owner
This course teaches the foundations of Agile and how a Product Owner interacts with Agile teams. You will learn Product Owner approaches, techniques and skills

Writing Better Requirements
The majority of project failures blame the requirements process so it’s no wonder that writing good requirements is complicated and harder than what most people