Module 2: The Competencies of a Business Analyst
- Personal qualities
- Business knowledge
- Professional techniques
- The development of competencies
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Overview
Course Highlights
Eligibility Criteria
Benefits
Exam Format
Certification Cost
What Is the Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner Certification?
Your Route from Concepts to Practice
Invensis Learning is an EXIN Accredited Training Provider in Ireland, approved to deliver official Business Analysis training using EXIN-aligned courseware and the EXIN Business Analysis Certification Preparation Guide.
Next: Course Highlights
Key Highlights
of the Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner Training Course
Next: Eligibility Criteria
Business Analysis F&P Certification Eligibility in Ireland
Do You Qualify for the Business Analysis F&P Exam?
Next: Benefits
What You Gain from Dual BA Certification
Skills, Recognition and Career Lift
For Individuals
BA F&P certification gives you two globally recognised EXIN BCS credentials in a single programme, proving both what you know and what you can do. It suits aspiring analysts, project and IT professionals, and product owners across Ireland who want a structured, employer-valued path into business analysis. Whether you are moving into a BA role, formalising years of informal analysis work, or adding requirements skills to a delivery career, the training maps directly to the competencies Irish employers hire for.
With Foundation knowledge and Practitioner application in one journey, you leave ready to sit both exams and to lead requirements, modelling and stakeholder work with confidence.
- Earn two recognised EXIN BCS credentials, Foundation and Practitioner, in one programme
- Prove applied BA skills, not just theory, through scenario-based Practitioner practice
- Open doors to business analyst, process analyst and requirements roles across Ireland
- Build in-demand skills in requirements, BPMN modelling and stakeholder management
- Gain a BCS-quality-assured qualification valued across the UK, Ireland and beyond
- Strengthen your earning potential as certified analysts command senior salary bands
- Hold lifetime credentials with no renewal or continuing education costs
- Move confidently from foundational knowledge to real project application
For Organizations
BA F&P group training builds consistent business analysis capability across your teams, equipping analysts and project staff with a shared language for requirements, modelling and stakeholder management. It can be delivered for delivery teams, PMOs or transformation functions. For Irish organisations modernising systems and processes, the programme standardises how requirements are elicited, documented and delivered, reducing rework and project risk.
Delivered live virtual or onsite, the training scales across departments and locations, giving your teams EXIN BCS credentials and applied skills they use on live projects.
- Standardise requirements and modelling practice across analysts and delivery teams
- Reduce project rework by improving how requirements are elicited and managed
- Upskill whole teams toward recognised EXIN BCS Foundation and Practitioner credentials
- Choose flexible onsite or live virtual delivery aligned to your project calendar
- Apply role-based case studies mapped to your sector and systems
- Build in-house business analysis capability instead of relying on contractors
- Support digital transformation and regulatory change programmes
- Create consistent BA governance across business units and locations
Next: Exam Format
Business Analysis F&P Exam Format in Ireland
Questions, Duration and Passing Criteria
The Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner (BA F&P) exams validate your ability to perform structured business analysis across the full BA lifecycle, from strategic context analysis through to requirements engineering, solution evaluation, and benefits realisation. The certification focuses on key areas such as the business analysis process model, strategic analysis (PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces, MOST, SWOT), stakeholder analysis and engagement (Power/Interest grid, CATWOE, RACI), modelling business systems and processes, requirements engineering (elicitation, analysis, validation, management), business case development and investment appraisal, gap analysis, and benefits planning and realisation. It is designed for professionals who want to demonstrate their expertise in translating business needs into deliverable solutions and supporting successful change in real-world organisational environments.
Next: Certification Cost
Business Analysis F&P Certification Cost in Ireland
Where BA Certification Takes You in Ireland
Roles, Demand and Earning Power
Certified business analysts are in strong demand across Ireland, valued by technology multinationals, banks, insurers, consultancies and pharma employers that run large change and transformation programmes. As organisations modernise systems and tighten regulatory compliance, professionals who can prove both foundational and applied BA skills stand out. Demand runs from Business Analyst to Senior and Lead level, and here is what the Irish market is telling us right now.
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Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner Certified Professionals in Ireland : Salary Insights and Trends
Hiring Companies in Ireland
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What Is Driving Business Analyst Demand in Ireland
Business analysis is now a core skill across Ireland's biggest sectors. Earn both EXIN BCS credentials and step into requirements and change roles with confidence. Start your journey today.
Your Ireland Career TransformationYour Career Before and After Certification
The Shift Dual BA Credentials Deliver
Ireland's technology, financial services and pharma sectors are hiring analysts who can prove their skills, and employers increasingly separate certified business analysts from the rest. Here is which side of that line you want to be on.
Sources: Glassdoor, Indeed, Morgan McKinley (Ireland) 2026.
How to Get Business Analysis F&P Certified in Ireland
Step-by-Step Certification Process
The Business Analysis certification path in Ireland is a streamlined two-exam track. Complete the 4-day Invensis Learning training, then sit both the Foundation and Practitioner exams (each 40 MCQ / 60 minutes / 65% pass / closed book). On passing both, you earn the Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner credentials.
Module 3: Strategy Analysis
- The context for strategy
- The definition of strategy (Johnson, Scholes, and Whittington 2008)
- Strategy development
- External environment analysis
- Internal environment analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Executing strategy
Module 4: The Business Analysis Process Model
- An approach to problem-solving
- Stages of the business analysis process model
- Objectives of the process model stages
- Procedure for each process model stage
- Techniques used within each process model stage
Module 5: Investigation Techniques
- Interviews
- Observation
- Workshops
- Scenarios
- Prototyping
- Quantitative approaches
- Documenting the current situation
Module 6: Stakeholder Analysis and Management
- Stakeholder categories and identification
- Analysing stakeholders
- Stakeholder management strategies
- Managing stakeholders
- Understanding stakeholder perspectives
- Business activity models
Module 7: Modelling Business Processes
- Organisational context
- An alternative view of an organisation
- The organisational view of business processes
- Value propositions
- Process models
- Analysing the as-is process model
- Improving business processes (to-be business process)
Module 8: Defining the solution
- Gap analysis
- Introduction to Business Architecture
- Definition of Business Architecture
- Business Architecture techniques
Module 9: Making a Business and Financial Case
- The business case in the project lifecycle
- Identifying options
- Assessing project feasibility
- Structure of a business case
- Investment appraisal
Module 10: Establishing the Requirements
- A Framework for Requirements Engineering
- Actors in requirements engineering
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirements analysis
- Requirements validation
- Documenting and Managing Requirements
- The requirements document
- The requirements catalogue
- Managing requirements
Module 11: Modelling Requirements
- Modelling system functions
- Modelling system data
Module 12: Delivering the Requirements
- Delivering the solution
- Context
- Lifecycles
Module 13: Delivering the Business Solution
- BA's role in the business change lifecycle
- Design stage
- Implementation stage
- Realization stage
Module 1: The Rationale for Business Analysis
- Explain the role of the BA throughout the business change lifecycle
- Understand the scope of the BA role within the context of the range of analysis activities: strategic analysis and definition, business analysis, and IT systems analysis
- Identify three competency areas for a BA: personal qualities, business knowledge, and professional techniques
Module 2: Understanding the Strategic Context
- Apply the MOST technique to analyse the internal environment of an organisation
- Apply the resource audit technique to analyse the internal environment of an organisation.
- Apply the PESTLE technique to analyse the external environment of an organisation
- Apply Porter's Five Forces technique to analyse the external environment of an organisation
- Explain the purpose of a SWOT analysis
- Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for a given scenario
- Define and explain the relationship between Critical Success Factor, Key Performance Indicator, and Performance Targets.
- Define the elements of the balanced business scorecard and describe how it may be used to identify Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators
Module 3: Understanding the Current Situation
- Identify the generic stakeholder categories defined in the stakeholder wheel
- Identify relevant investigation techniques for a given scenario
- Explain the rationale for taking a holistic view when investigating a business situation
- Interpret the business situation represented in rich pictures, mind maps, and fishbone diagrams
Module 4: Stakeholder Analysis and Management
- In a given scenario, describe stakeholders in terms of their power/influence and level of interest
- Select an appropriate stakeholder management strategy based on the position on the Power/Interest Grid
- Apply the CATWOE technique to explore stakeholder business perspectives.
- Explain different stakeholder business perspectives based on elements of CATWOE to identify similarities and differences in their worldviews
Module 5: Analysing and Modelling Business Activities
- Explain the rationale for building conceptual models of a business situation
- Understand how to construct a conceptual business activity model based on a given scenario
- Understand how the five types of high-level activity within a business activity model (and the dependencies between them) represent a stakeholder's business perspective
- Explain the role of the planning activities in determining performance targets for a business system represented in the business activity model
- Explain the role of the enabling activities, in acquiring and replenishing resources for a business system represented in the business activity model
- Explain the role of the activities in conducting the work of the transformation, as defined in the stakeholder's CATWOE
- Explain the role of monitoring and control activities, in regulating a business system represented in the business activity model
- Explain the three types of business events
- 5n a given business activity model, identify the business events that will be handled by particular business activity
- Explain the rationale for the consensus business activity model
Module 6: Identifying Potential Solutions
- In a given business scenario, distinguish between the different categories of business rules
- Describe the process for carrying out gap analysis by comparing the conceptual business activity model and existing business situation
- Define the components of a new business model
Module 7: Building the Business Case
- Explain the rationale for the development of a business case.
- Describe the contents of a business case
- Interpret a scenario to identify tangible and intangible costs and benefits, risks, and impacts
- Understand the rationale for the development of the financial case and the appraisal techniques
- Explain where a business case sits within the business change lifecycle and the rationale for reviewing it at each stage
Course Curriculum
of the Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training
The Business Analysis F&P curriculum follows the official EXIN BCS Business Analysis Body of Knowledge and covers strategy analysis, the BA process model, investigation techniques, stakeholder analysis, business process modelling, requirements engineering, and the business
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Business Analysis Foundation Course Overview
Module 1: What is Business Analysis?
- The Origins of Business Analysis
- The Development of Business Analysis
- The Scope of Business Analysis Work
- Taking a Holistic Approach
- The Role and Responsibilities of a Business Analyst
Foundational to nearly every question on the exam, since it frames the BA role referenced throughout the paper.
Business Analysis Practitioner Course Overview
Module 1: The Rationale for Business Analysis
- Explain the role of the BA throughout the business change lifecycle
- Understand the scope of the BA role within the context of the range of analysis activities: strategic analysis and definition, business analysis, and IT systems analysis
- Identify three competency areas for a BA: personal qualities, business knowledge, and professional techniques
Builds directly on Foundation-level content, making it one of the fastest modules to master for the Practitioner exam.
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The BA Skills You Will Build
Across Foundation and Practitioner
This programme covers the full EXIN BCS syllabus, from investigation and requirements engineering to business modelling, stakeholder management and business case development. By the end you can analyse business needs and apply BA techniques in real project scenarios.
Investigation and Elicitation
Gather accurate information about business situations using interviews, workshops, observation, questionnaires and document analysis, and choose the right technique for each context.
Requirements Engineering
Elicit, document, prioritise with MoSCoW, and manage requirements with traceability and version control, writing clear functional and non-functional requirement statements.
Stakeholder Analysis and Management
Identify and analyse stakeholders with tools such as the power and interest grid and RACI, then plan engagement and manage conflict and resistance across a change initiative.
Business Process Modelling
Model as-is and to-be processes using BPMN and swimlane diagrams, spot inefficiencies, and design improved processes that stakeholders can validate.
Strategy Analysis
Apply PESTLE, SWOT and gap analysis to understand the drivers for change and align proposed solutions to organisational strategy.
Solution Definition and Options Analysis
Define solution scope, assess feasibility, compare options against criteria, and recommend solutions that meet business requirements.
Business Case and Investment Appraisal
Build a business case with cost-benefit analysis and investment appraisal techniques such as NPV, ROI and payback, and communicate risk to decision-makers.
Applied BA Practice in Scenarios
Apply Foundation knowledge to realistic project scenarios at Practitioner level, combining use case, data and process modelling to solve business problems.
Who Should Take
Business Analysis F&P Certification Training in Ireland?
Business Analysts
Project Managers
Product Owners
Requirement Engineers
Business Managers
Team Members
Business Change Managers
Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner Training Modes
for Professionals and Teams
We offer flexible training formats designed to suit different learning preferences, schedules, and professional goals. Whether you prefer classroom learning, live online sessions, team-based learning, or personalized coaching, choose the option that best supports your Business Analysis Foundation & Practitioner learning journey.
Business Analysis Classroom Training
Instructor-led classroom sessions
Interactive discussions and group activities
Real-world examples and practical exercises
Structured learning with fixed schedules
Opportunities for peer networking and collaboration
Practice assessments and knowledge checks
Dedicated Q&A and concept clarification
Immediate trainer feedback and support
Learn through face-to-face sessions led by experienced instructors in a collaborative classroom environment. This Classroom Business Analysis F&P training format combines expert guidance, peer interaction, and practical exercises to create an engaging learning experience.
Official EXIN BCS-aligned Course Material
Best For: Learners who prefer in-person interaction, structured schedules, and collaborative learning experiences.
Business Analysis Corporate Group Training
Customised training aligned to organisational goals
Flexible delivery: onsite, virtual, hybrid, or blended
Scheduling tailored to business availability
Role-based examples and industry-relevant discussions
Progress tracking and learner assessments where applicable
Dedicated coordination and administrative support
Consistent learning experiences across teams
Scalable delivery for local, regional, or global workforces
Designed for organizations that want to strengthen business analysis capabilities, improve requirements management practices, and support workforce development through structured learning initiatives. This format is ideal for Business Analysis F&P training for companies in Ireland seeking to build high-performing analysis teams.
Official EXIN BCS-aligned Course Material
Best For: Organizations looking to upskill employees, address capability gaps, and deliver consistent training across teams.
Business Analysis Focused 1-to-1 Training
One-to-one instructor attention
Customised learning plans and objectives
Flexible scheduling based on availability
Personalized feedback and coaching
Additional focus on challenging topics
Targeted practice and revision support
Faster clarification of questions and concepts
Learning pace is adapted to individual needs
Receive personalized instruction tailored to your goals, pace, and learning requirements through dedicated sessions with an expert trainer. This format provides Business Analysis F&P coaching for professionals seeking individualized support with certification preparation, business analysis techniques, and career development.
Official EXIN BCS-aligned Course Material
Best For: Professionals seeking personalized guidance, accelerated learning, or focused support to achieve specific outcomes.
Business Analysis Live Virtual Training
Live online instructor-led sessions
Interactive discussions and virtual activities
Expert guidance from experienced trainers
Practice assessments and revision support
Dedicated Q&A sessions for concept clarification
Fixed schedules for accountability and momentum
Small batch sizes for personalized attention
Access from any location with internet connectivity
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Please Note: Attend fully interactive online sessions from anywhere while benefiting from real-time instructor guidance and collaborative learning experiences. This Virtual Business Analysis F&P training option provides flexibility while maintaining direct engagement with experienced trainers.
Official EXIN BCS-aligned Course Material
Best For: Professionals seeking the flexibility of online learning without compromising on live instructor interaction.
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Why Choose Invensis Learning for BA Training in Ireland
Accredited, Practical and Learner-Focused
Invensis Learning is an EXIN Accredited Training Provider delivering Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner training for professionals and teams across Ireland. Our programmes combine EXIN-accredited trainers, EXIN BCS-aligned courseware, industry case studies and structured exam preparation. Whether you enrol as an individual or arrange corporate training for your team, you get flexible delivery, practical application and dedicated learner support, all backed by ISO-certified quality and information-security standards.
- EXIN Accredited Training Provider for EXIN BCS Business Analysis
- Experienced, EXIN-accredited trainers with real BA project exposure
- EXIN BCS-aligned courseware and industry-driven case studies
- Flexible formats: live virtual, classroom and corporate group training
- Foundation and Practitioner mock exams and practice questions
- Guidance to prepare for both BA exams on the first attempt
- Dedicated learner support before, during and after training
- ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified for quality and information security
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Business Analysis Foundation and Practitioner Training Locations in Ireland
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- Standardise requirements and modelling practice across the organisation
- Experienced EXIN-accredited trainers with real BA project exposure
- Role-based case studies mapped to your sector and systems
- Group pricing and dedicated coordination for cohorts
- Progress tracking and reporting for L&D teams
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