Inteq Training

Business Systems Analysis
for AI Spec-Driven Development

Identifying, analyzing and specifying clear, complete, build-ready business and user requirements

The specifications developed in this course are optimized for AI spec-driven development while remaining applicable to traditional professional coding approaches. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, getting the requirements right - accurate, clear, intuitive and extensible - is a critical success factor in every business system initiative.

2 Days | 14 Engagement Hours

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Course Overview

Framework and Key Concepts

Analysis myths & misconceptions
Deep vs. superficial analysis
Business vs. business systems requirements
The 5 essential business analysis questions
Why AI-assisted coding shifts the leverage upstream to analysis

Defining Baseline Requirements

Business functions, processes and work activities
The 5 types of business system requirements
The Interaction Context Diagram
Components of an effective use case

Analyzing and Extending Requirements

Interaction flow of events
Break-fix scenario analysis
Business rule analysis - rule-based tasks vs. judgment-based decisions
Identifying non-functional requirements (NFRs)

Defining Information Requirements

Business vocabulary, terminology and semantic consistency
Entity types | Attributes | Relationships
ERD fundamentals
Data quality dimensions

Extending Information Requirements

State transition analysis
State transition diagramming
Analytics and reporting requirements
Data integration requirements

BSA at Scale Case Study

Participants analyze a complex real-world business space and identify and define business and user requirements - culminating in a build-ready spec for AI-assisted development. This case study provides an invaluable template that you can leverage to jump-start and improve business systems analysis - traditional and AI-assisted - in your organization.

Elicitation and Collaboration

Sources of business knowledge
Quality of the conversation
Engaging SMEs and stakeholders
Facilitated workshops
Managing alignment and conflict

Practical Guidance

Scaling analysis work: proportional rigor and a governance triage for AI-built applications
The vibe-coding-to-spec-driven spectrum: discovery tool vs. engineering discipline
Scoping vs. specification: where the PR/FAQ belongs - and where it doesn't
Critical success factors

“AI collapses coding time from months to minutes - reinvest the dividend upstream in getting the requirements right.”

James Proctor Author, Business Systems Analysis

Whether teams are practicing AI spec-driven development, vibe-coding prototypes, or writing production-grade code, or configuring vendor platforms - outcomes always depend on the quality of the analysis and resulting requirements.

In AI-assisted development, code is generated in minutes - business clarity is not.

Inteq's Business Systems Analysis training course provides a modern, business-centric, model-driven framework to identify, analyze, and specify clear, complete, unambiguous - AI build-ready requirements.

Using intuitive models, best-practice methods, and real-world scenarios, you and your team learn to rapidly uncover deep operational insight and translate it into precise user stories, use cases, and SRS specifications.

The result: specifications that human developers and AI-assisted coding tools can act on without inference. The specification becomes the contract for design, construction, and testing.

The payoff is smarter solution design, faster delivery, fewer defects, and systems that truly support the business. The organizations that win with AI are not the ones that prompt the fastest - they are the ones that specify the clearest.

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Course Includes

1.4 CEUs / 14 IIBA PDUs | Personalized Digital Badge | Certificate of Completion | Comprehensive Course Manual | Templates, Models & Frameworks

Training Options

Flexible Delivery for Individuals and Teams

ON-DEMAND ELEARNING

Start Anytime. Learn at Your Pace.

Ideal for individuals or small groups that need stronger business analysis capabilities to clarify requirements, improve processes, and support organizational transformation.

✓ Flexible: Self-paced access from any device.
✓ Expert-Built: High-impact, optimized learning modules.
✓ 90-Day Access: Time to review and reinforce key concepts.
✓ Immediately Applicable: Skills you can put to work right away.

TEAM TRAINING

Customized Training. Delivered Live.

Establish a shared, best-practice business analysis framework across teams for clearer requirements, stronger collaboration, and measurable process improvement.

✓ Live Interaction: Engage directly with the instructor and team.
✓ Team Collaboration: Apply concepts through facilitated exercises.
✓ Immersive: Highly engaging, instructor-led delivery.
✓ Onsite or Virtual: Select the format that works for your organization.
✓ Tailored Delivery: Align the experience with your objectives.

James Proctor, course developer and Principal of The Inteq Group

Course Author

Course Developed by James Proctor

James Proctor is Principal of The Inteq Group, author of Mastering Business Chaos, and author of Inteq's thought-leadership series on AI spec-driven development and agentic AI-enabled business processes. He has led business transformation and analysis initiatives for Fortune 500 and government organizations for decades - and more than 300,000 business and IT professionals have trained in his methods.

Key Benefits

Whether enhancing individual capability or aligning a team, this course builds business analysis expertise for clarity, confidence, and consistent results - in traditional and AI-assisted delivery environments.

What You Gain From This Training:

Drive business improvement using proven, model-driven analysis frameworks
Produce build-ready specifications that developers and AI-assisted coding tools can act on without inference
Actionable skills immediately applicable to real-world projects
Improve stakeholder communication and decision-making
Reduce project risk and rework with unambiguous requirements — before AI operationalizes the ambiguity
Strengthen career opportunities: AI elevates, rather than replaces, the professional analyst

The result: clearer requirements, better decisions, and measurable improvement across your organization - plus the specification discipline that converts AI speed into enterprise value.

Why Inteq Training

Inteq's approach blends real-world analysis experience with proven frameworks - ensuring the business analysis skills that deliver immediate value in an AI-assisted world.

What Sets Inteq Apart:

Course developed by industry expert James Proctor - author of Inteq's thought-leadership series on spec-driven development and model-driven analysis
Proven framework and roadmap: Inteq's MoDA/Framework® - model-driven analysis as the operational foundation of spec-driven development
Best-practice methods paired with real-world case studies
Actionable techniques trusted by leading business and government organizations
Over 300,000 business and IT professionals trained worldwide

This is not just a training course - it's a transformational experience that prepares you to become a trusted advisor in your organization, and the specification authority your AI-assisted delivery pipeline depends on.

Trusted by professionals and teams at leading organizations

“Stronger requirements, less rework”

The Business Systems Analysis eLearning program gave our analysts a common toolkit for eliciting and validating requirements. Within two releases we saw 40% fewer defects traced back to unclear or missing business requirements.

Alicia R.

Lead Business Analyst, Insurance

“A common language for business & IT”

We brought our entire project team through Inteq’s Business Systems Analysis team training. The shared models and terminology finally got business stakeholders and IT on the same page and cut late-stage change requests by over 30%.

Marcus L.

IT Project Manager, Public Sector

“Clearer roadmaps and faster delivery”

The Business Systems Analysis techniques helped us structure our backlog around solid business requirements and use cases. Our product and BA teams now build future-state models together, which has shortened our discovery phase by 2–3 weeks per project.

Chris N.

Product Owner, SaaS Technology

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