Listed as Free on Udemy when checked on 21 October 2026. No coupon or subscription trial is required for the listed lessons. Enrollment needs a Udemy account; availability can change.
About this course
A request for a new system can conceal several different needs. Tom and Angela Hathaway introduce business analysis as the work of separating those needs, understanding who has them and expressing what a solution must accomplish.
The lessons distinguish strategic, tactical and operational analysis before organizing requirements into business, stakeholder, solution and transition categories. Functional and nonfunctional requirements appear within that structure, followed by an introduction to techniques and the analyst’s role in different delivery approaches.
| Official course | What Is Business Analysis for Information Technology (IT) |
|---|---|
| Created by | Tom and Angela Hathaway |
| Platform | Udemy |
| Language | English |
| Level | All Levels — Udemy listing |
| Listed duration | 66 minutes; 17 lectures across 5 sections |
| Certificate | Not included with a new free enrollment |
Skills you’ll gain
- Distinguishing requirement categories
- Recognizing levels of business analysis
- Separating functional and nonfunctional needs
- Understanding analysis across delivery approaches
The course does not expect a technical background or additional materials. Follow the requirements section before comparing Waterfall, iterative and Agile delivery: it provides a vocabulary for discussing what changes between approaches and what still needs to be understood.
This is an orientation to the discipline, not a complete professional-certification syllabus. A useful personal exercise is to take an ordinary service request and distinguish its desired business outcome from a proposed software feature; that exercise is suggested by WikiFree rather than promised as instructor feedback.
Frequently asked questions
Is coding knowledge required?
No. The instructor lists no technical-background requirement; the focus is understanding business analysis for IT.
What kinds of requirements are introduced?
The syllabus covers business, stakeholder, solution and transition requirements, including functional and nonfunctional solution requirements.
Checked on 21 October 2026 using the public course details and syllabus. WikiFree has not watched every lesson or tested full playback. New free enrollments do not include a Udemy completion certificate, instructor Q&A or direct messages.
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