If you’re thinking about investing in Business Analysis training for your staff, you’ll no doubt want to know what value it could bring to your business.

On paper the benefits are clear; skills such as innovative problem solving, data analysis and the ability to deliver business change can all have real impact on an organisation.

But often where that value is really measurable, is in how quickly you are able to access those skills within the workplace, and therefore reap the benefits within your business.

Of course, some learning can take a while to embed. In fact, you may well have had experience of sending staff on training only to find that the benefits only present themselves much further down the line. It may be that the skills require a lot of work in practice, or that individuals simply haven’t had the opportunity to use them yet within the workplace.

In contrast, a Requirements Engineering course is designed specifically to help your people develop the necessary skills needed to hit the ground running. It means that your top talent will be trained and ready to deliver skills and insight to your business from day one.

The need for Requirements Engineering skills is now far more wide-reaching than ever before; as a result, upskilling your staff in this area can have a real impact not just across various teams within your organisation but throughout the business as a whole.

Why invest in Requirements Engineering training for your staff?

There’s no doubt about it, traditional outdated approaches in the workplace are largely redundant for businesses operating in an increasingly VUCA environment.

Organisations need to be agile, innovative and willing and able to deliver business change where necessary. Just as importantly, staff members need to be appropriately trained and able to implement these changes within the workplace in order to drive business growth.

A Requirements Engineering course offers the perfect way to do exactly that, developing the relevant skills and knowledge to support successful change programmes, while developing key skills.

By investing in your staff and offering progression for candidates wanting to specialise in end-to-end requirements management, it can directly help in retaining your top talent and growing skills and expertise right within your workplace.

According to BCS, the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering was the third highest performing certificate in the BA Portfolio for 2020, while 67% of IT leaders claimed they want to enhance IT skills and capability in their existing workforce (BCS IT Leaders Report 2021); the need and desire for trained business analyst specialists is clearly there within the industry, and the sooner you can capitalise on that within your own workforce, the more competitive you are likely to be.

How a Requirements Engineering course can benefit your projects

Let’s face it, not all projects succeed. In fact, many still fail and when they do, the resulting cost to the business in time, money, labour and resources can be significant.

With the amount of rework sometimes involved, businesses can find themselves back to square one with projects, the effects of which can be felt at every level.

By investing in professional formal training in Requirements Engineering, not only will you save money long-term on your projects, you’ll also be creating a best practice discipline within your business that can create the foundation for future projects going forward too:

  • It enables you to upskill your employees and develop knowledge within your business.
  • It encourages the retention of top talent by offering progression and career development.
  • Skills can be developed to enable step-change and transformation within your business.
  • Time and money can be saved through less re-work of projects and a higher success rate.
  • Communities of best practice can be built within your organisation.

To find out more detail about the BCS accredited Requirements Engineering course we offer, or indeed any of our Business Analyst training courses, please do get in touch – I’d welcome the opportunity to speak with you and answer any questions you may have.