Boost your Analysis skills

A learning journey for analysts

Next learning journeys: 
10 Feb 2025 – 18 Nov 2025

Branding AE-190
AE presents

A nine month training course for (future) analysts

Brightspace - Leuven

About the journey

Over the last few years, we have seen an increasing demand for skilled analysts.

While learning resources are abundantly available for analysts, it's hard to see the forest for the trees and to build and maintain their knowledge. They may be the only analyst within the IT department or are part of a very small group of experts.

As a result, knowledge sharing is difficult, they don’t feel challenged in their day-to-day work and they are not exposed to new insights in their domain. 

AE’s Boost Your Analysis Skills aims to support those who are or those who strive to become analysts through a combination of Training, Workshops, Hybrid Learning, Community and Coaching, divided into 8 learning modules.

The learning journey

 

Step 1

Personal intake (1H)

Objectification of my learning needs based on a personal intake resulting in my personal Learning Plan

Step 2

Learning (6 - 9 months)

A learning journey with different learning forms supports me in building op the competences required to succeed as a solution architect

Step 3

Retrospective (1h)

Did I achieve my personal goals and become a real solution architect?
What are my next steps?

Step 4

Community (6 months)

Continued access to learning resource and network

Topics in the learning journey

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Role & Framework

 

Understand what an analyst’s role is and how it can be integrated into the organisation's structure. Discover the benefits of frameworks and maturity models.​

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Technology & Architecture patterns


Get an insight into the most common patterns and technologies to improve the interaction with technical profiles and solution architects. Understand the basics of GDPR and its impact on your analyses.

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Domain Driven Design

 

Get introduced to a collection of principles and patterns to help you approach the analysis and design of complex solutions. And more importantly, you will get inspired and obtain the domain driven mindset.

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Quality Assurance

 

Get (re)acquainted with QA fundamentals with an introduction to test strategies, Test Driven Design (TDD), Behavior Driven Design (BDD), test automation and many other topics that will let you look at analysis from a different point of view.

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Customer experience & design


See the importance of customer and user experience and learn to apply basic techniques to introduce the first steps in the customer experience techniques and UI design.

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Data & Analytics 

 

Learn how to create an API design. Understand the common data storage types, the BI and analytics pipeline, and their implications on your analysis deliverables.

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Analysis labs

 

Explore the main delivery process steps and apply different analysis techniques. Get a grasp on modelling techniques, the interactions between those techniques, and the importance of documentation.

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People Skills

 

Find out how stakeholder & change management, interviewing techniques, and facilitiation skills can make a difference as an analyst.

Why did they decide to boost their analysis skills?

 

 

Who is it for?

This learning journey is ideally suited for you if:

  • You know the most common techniques, but are looking for a framework on when to use which technique

  • You want to know more about business & functional analysis in the broader sense of the job, and get insights on which activities are typically being done

  • You are curious about how analysis is being done in other companies and eager to learn from peers and coaches about the benefits & pitfalls

  • You want to put your learnings into practice

  • You want more insight into the technology in the market and how this can affect doing analyses

  • You have wonderful analysis ideas, but have a hard time convincing your business or developers

  • You are looking for a sounding board with like-minded people

What does the program look like?

This program is a combination of courses, workshops and self-learning. You will frequently interact with both your personal coach as well as your peers to enable you to learn from each other and to exchange ideas.

In between learning modules, you are encouraged and supported to put into practice what you have learned, with your personal coach as a sounding board. This combination of interaction and practice trains both your hard skills as well as your social skills.

  • Open bootcamp limited to 12 students

  • Spread in time to make the combination work/study/practice feasible

  • Experienced trainers and coaches

What’s in it for you and your organisation?

After completing this program successfully, you are able to:

  • Understand why analysis and the analysis mindset is important and how it fits in the organisation

  • Decide which analysis activities, approach and deliverables are best suited for the projects you are working on

  • Contribute to a positive working relation with different stakeholders from both business and development teams

  • Access a network of peers and experts that will come in useful in future analysis challenges and your own career path

 

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