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Junior BA / Requirements Analyst
Learning requirements gathering and documentation.
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About This Role
You're learning how to translate business needs into structured requirements. Your role is about listening carefully, asking the right questions, and documenting clearly.
Key Skills to Develop
- → Learn elicitation techniques: interviews, workshops, surveys, document analysis
- → Practise writing clear, testable functional and non-functional requirements
- → Understand BABOK's knowledge areas and how they connect
- → Build skills in process modelling (swimlanes, flowcharts)
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AI for This Role
Practical ways to use AI in your day-to-day work.
- ▸ Ask AI to transform rough interview notes into structured requirements with clear acceptance criteria
- ▸ Use AI to generate sample user stories from a feature description and check if they follow INVEST principles
- ▸ Have AI review your requirements for common gaps — ambiguity, missing edge cases, untestable statements
- ▸ Generate interview question banks for specific stakeholder types or project contexts
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Next Steps
- 1 Shadow a senior BA on an active requirements gathering engagement
- 2 Practise writing user stories with acceptance criteria
- 3 Learn a requirements management tool (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps)
- 4 Study for the ECBA certification to validate your knowledge
