Tradecraft Standards of Analytic Production

Analytic standards for production and review.

Course Description:


This course is designed to help intelligence analysts understand the key standards and expectations for producing high-quality analysis, and help supervisors set clear expectations for their team’s intelligence outputs. In this course we explore the analytic standards of the US, UK, and Canadian intelligence communities and offer clear, practical guidance on how to both think of these standards in analytic design and apply them to analytic production.



At the end of this course, participants will be able to:



Course Outline:

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Who this course is for:

This course is ideal for intelligence analysts of all levels, as well as intelligence managers responsible for a team’s analysis and analytic production.

 

Course Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites, but participants should understand the fundamentals of intelligence and analysis.

 

Duration:

In-Person Classroom Training: 5 Days, 7 hours of instruction per day*

Virtual/Remote Training: 5 days, 3.5 hours of instruction per day*

* We offer this class both as an in-person classroom event and as online, remote instruction.  While the material and instruction is consistent between the two, we are able to offer practical exercises and personal instructor support to the training in-person that we are not able to offer remotely.


What you will receive at course completion: