Training & eLearning
For more than 17 years, EBG Consulting’s learning solutions have helped organizations address their problems with product development, business 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:
Fundamentals (Business Analysis, Requirements Development & Management)
Intermediate and Advanced (Analysis Modeling, In-Depth)
Intermediate and Advanced (Elicitation, Agile Planning, Improving Iteration and Project Outcomes)
Fundamentals
Business Analysis, Requirements Development & Management
This three-day comprehensive course builds knowledge and skills in the agile method of developing requirements—the basis for delivering business value to customers on agile projects. With these skills, you can start building your product or improve your current agile analysis practices. Learn More >>
In agile projects, requirements are the basis for delivering business value for customers. Requirements analysis is integral to delivering the right product at the right time, and on time. This intensive course builds skills in creating small, well-defined requirements to deliver value one iteration at a time. Learn More >>
This interactive two-day course builds your skills in scope modeling, a crucial first step in developing project requirements. You’ll learn to quickly elicit, analyze, and specify eight requirements models that help you clearly define the boundaries of your project. Learn more >>
This three-day, hands-on, intensive course teaches the art and science of requirements development and management. It prepares you to create, verify, and validate a set of industry-standard, interrelated analysis models. Learn more >>
This comprehensive training package effectively blends the best of two training modes— self-paced eLearning and instructor-led classroom training. Learn more >>
This eLearning curriculum is a series of eight self-paced courses that teaches you the fundamentals of business analysis: requirements development and management. Learn More >>
This two-day, hands-on, intensive course builds skills in analysis modeling, a crucial activity for successful requirements development.
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This one-day overview course provides an introductory understanding of the art and science of requirements development and management.
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Intermediate and Advanced
Analysis Modeling, In-Depth
This one-day, instructor-led, hands-on advanced course focuses on an essential component of business analysis and functional requirements: business rules. Business analysts must actively participate in writing business rules. In this course you’ll learn and practice eliciting business rules from analysis models... Learn more >>
This instructor-led eLearning experience is a specially designed version of EBG’s instructor-led one-day course Business Rules: A Roundtrip Journey on the Road to Success. To participate, all you need is an Internet connection and a telephone. Business analysts must actively participate in writing business rules. Learn More >>
This one-day, instructor-led, hands-on course teaches the fundamentals of modeling data requirements, a crucial skill for successful software projects. Business analysts must participate in data modeling, collaborating with data experts to elicit, specify, verify, and validate data requirements. Learn More >>
This two-day, hands-on, advanced course teaches fundamental and advanced data modeling skills. It prepares business analysts to collaborate with data experts to elicit, specify, verify, and validate data requirements. You’ll learn and practice a step-by-step approach to elicit data requirements from analysis models... Learn more >>
Events provide a “navigation system” for identifying and tracking the business behavior of an application. Event modeling is a fast, powerful, practical way to elicit high-level requirements, prioritize releases, and size a project. Event modeling also helps technical and business stakeholders communicate, organize, and track... Learn More >>
This instructor-led eLearning experience is a specially designed version of EBG’s instructor-led one-day course Event Modeling: A Power Vehicle for Navigating Requirements. To participate, all you need is an Internet connection and a telephone. Events provide a “navigation system” for identifying ... Learn More >>
Elicitation, Agile Planning, Improving Iteration & Project Outcomes
Effective collaboration is the foundation of healthy, thriving, successful agile teams. For effective collaboration, all members of a group or team must share a common purpose, enjoy mutual trust, and use agreed-upon approaches for their work. Facilitation skills help you engineer and sustain healthy collaboration... Learn More >>
In facilitated JAD (Joint Application Design) workshops, team members create, review, and complete important project deliverables. Teams that use these workshops slash delivery time and improve the quality of their software. That’s because they define precise requirements... Learn More >>
At the end of a project, milestone, or iteration, a team stands to learn a great deal by reflecting on its experiences. The ritual of a retrospective lets the team members and stakeholders stop and reflect, evaluating what works and what doesn’t work in their environment. Learn More >>
Delivery Modes
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.
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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