● CAREER ROADMAP

Business Analysis & IT Project Management

Bridge business and delivery, turn needs into shipped outcomes.

Business Analysts and IT Project Managers connect business needs to delivery teams, turning requirements into shipped, valuable outcomes. It is a people-and-process path that rewards communication, structure and judgement, no heavy coding required.

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The complete Business Analysis & IT Project Management field roadmap - everything worth learning, from fundamentals to advanced. Highlighted core topics are the ones we take you through in the UstackSchool programme.

Core - taught in the programmeRecommendedOptional / advanced

Foundations

BA & PM roles SDLC Agile vs Waterfall IIBA BABOK

Requirements Engineering

Elicitation techniques User stories Acceptance criteria BRD / FRD documents Requirements traceability Use cases Prototyping

Prioritisation

MoSCoW RICE Value vs effort Kano model

Process Modelling

Process mapping (BPMN)Flowcharts & swimlanes As-is / to-be Gap analysis UML

Data & Systems Analysis

Data flow diagrams SQL basics ERDs API concepts

Agile Delivery

Scrum Backlog management Sprint ceremonies Kanban Velocity & burndown SAFe

Tools

Jira Confluence Miro / Lucidchart MS Visio Azure DevOps

Analytics & Reporting

Excel analysis KPIs & metrics Power BI / Tableau Dashboards

Stakeholder Management

Workshop facilitation Communication Negotiation Change management

Project & Product Skills

Roadmapping Business case Risk management Budgeting

Get job-ready

End-to-end BA project Portfolio Certifications (CBAP / PMI-PBA / Scrum)Interview prep

Tools & technologies

Jira & Confluence Miro / Lucidchart Excel / Sheets Notion Trello MS Project Slack Figma (reading designs)

Free, open learning resources

Every topic and tool above links to our in-depth UstackSchool guide for Business Analysis & IT Project Management. To go wider for free, these open resources also help:

freeCodeCamp →roadmap.sh (open-source) →YouTube full course →More free resources →

Free resources build knowledge. UstackSchool adds the practical experience, evidence and support that get you hired.

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