Requirements Discovery for Business Analysts - 2026
What you'll learn
- Overview of Requirements Discovery for Business Analysts and Product Owners
- Understand the stages of a Requirements Discovery and the Business Analyst's role in each of these stages: Preparation, Execution, Analysis & Transition
- Know roles on your Discovery Team: Consulting Lead, Business Analyst, Solution Architect, Project Manager
- Learn what deliverables Business Analysts need to prepare as a result of the Discovery
- How to create and maintain the Agenda for Discovery workshops and interviews
- What are the different types of Discovery meetings: Show-and-tell, Workshops, Interviews
- Typical Mistakes that need to be avoided at your Discovery engagement
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of IT business analysis or software development process
- Other than that - no prior knowledge needed.
Description
Welcome to "Requirements Discovery for Business Analyst - 2026" the ultimate online crash course on the fundamental principles of conducting successful IT requirements discovery sessions for your digital projects!
BA requirements elicitation and discovery are critical processes in any software development project. However, conducting requirements gathering effectively requires a deep dive into the client's subject matter and the specifics of their business. This ensures that every project software requirement is understood, estimated, captured, and communicated clearly to the project delivery team. This is where the requirements discovery phase comes in, and this course is here to help you master it!
This crash course covers everything you need to know to conduct a successful Discovery engagement!
In less than 1 hour, you will learn how to prepare and execute a discovery engagement, analyze the outcomes, and transition the results to the delivery team. We will discuss assembling a discovery team, highlighting the business analyst's role in the team, developing a discovery agenda, scheduling meetings, and navigating conflicts. By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of different types of IT discovery meetings, such as show-and-tell, interviews, and workshops. You will also learn what outcomes are expected as a result of the discovery, such as the product requirements agile backlog, UX wireframes, user stories, and more. Additionally, you will gain insights into best practices for running knowledge transfer and transitioning artifacts to the IT delivery team.
By enrolling in this course, you will learn:
How to prepare, execute, and wrap up IT discovery engagements
Different types of discovery meetings: show-and-tell, interviews, workshops
How to create discovery agendas and prepare for project meetings
What artifacts should be created as a result of discovery: product backlog, UX wireframes, agile user stories for sprint 1
How to run knowledge transfer and transition artifacts to the IT delivery team
Specifics of online/offline discovery workshops
A discovery checklist to help you stay organized
Recommendations for further reading
Led by Sergey Shimansky, an industry expert with over 20 years of experience managing projects for Fortune 500 organizations in the United States and Europe, this crash course will teach you the best practices adopted by industry professionals.
This course is designed for IT Business Analysts, Product Owners, Project Managers, Solution Architects, and other project leaders involved in planning or executing software development and consulting projects.
By taking this course, you'll gain the knowledge and skills required for successful Requirements Discovery!
Who this course is for:
- IT Business Analysts
- IT Product Owners
- IT Project Managers
- IT Solution Architects
Instructor
Sergey Shimansky is an accomplished IT leader, business analyst, and product owner with over 20 years of experience. As the founder of BACareerMentor, Sergey is dedicated to helping aspiring business analysts and product owners accelerate their careers and navigate their professional journeys.
Currently serving as Head of Experience Consulting and Business Analysis at a global leader in service development, digital platform engineering, and digital product design, Sergey has a proven track record of building new digital products. He has led numerous e-commerce and content management projects for Fortune 500 organizations across the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union.
Sergey specializes in project discovery workshops with a focus on e-commerce, content strategy and customer journeys, multi-national content catalog structure, content publishing workflows, content components, content taxonomy and metadata, wireframes and UI interfaces, digital asset management, translation and localization, personalization.
Sergey is a Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I), and Scaled Agile Professional (SAFe® Agilist).