Agile Business Analysis

price starting at:
$1195
course duration:
2 Days
training option:
Live Online
Course Overview

Agile Business Analysis Course

This two-day workshop provides the essential information needed for anyone doing business analysis in an Agile environment. You will work with core Agile techniques from visioning through retrospecting and experiment with them using a robust case study. Using Scrum as a framework, you will write, elaborate, and prioritize user stories, as well as build and refine a product backlog. In addition, you will learn how the business analyst can participate on Agile teams and in Scrum events to add value to Agile initiatives.

This course will earn you 14 PDUs | 14 CDUs

Agile Business Analysis Course Overview
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Learning Objectives

  • Understand the principles that guide Agile business analysis
  • Explain the Scrum framework, roles, and how business analysts contribute to Scrum teams
  • Elicit user roles and develop user profiles
  • Identify and practice techniques to understand the business and product need, goals and objectives in an Agile environment
  • Use and explain high-level Agile planning techniques including story maps
  • Write and elaborate valuable user stories and other product backlog items to build a product backlog

COURSE AGENDA

Training Outline

This course provides an opportunity to experiment with the most common tools used by a business analyst working on or with an agile team. The Scrum framework provides the context for understanding and practicing agile concepts and techniques.

Process Leadership

Business Analysis

  • What is business analysis and a business analyst
  • What is a requirement
  • Requirement types and business rules

  • What is Agile
  • When to use an adaptive approach
  • Predictive and adaptive approaches
  • The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles

  • Empirical nature of Scrum
  • Scrum roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team
  • Business analysis activities in Scrum
  • The Agile Business Analysis toolkit

  • What is Agile Business Analysis
  • Level of BA effort in traditional and Agile environments
  • The Agile BA Mindset
  • Principles of Agile Business Analysis

  • Importance of “Why” on Agile initiatives
  • Levels of Agile planning
  • Business requirements in an Agile environment

  • Customer centricity in Agile
  • Identifying stakeholders and defining user roles
  • Creating user profiles

  • Agile traceability
  • High-level planning terms (feature, MMF, MVP, etc.)
  • High-level planning techniques
  • Product roadmaps
  • Impact mapping
  • Story mapping

  • Getting agile initiatives started
  • Sprint Zero

  • Product backlog characteristics
  • Quality user story characteristics

  • Techniques for ordering product backlog items

  • Real Options Theory and refining the product backlog
  • Getting user stories “Ready”
  • Decomposing and elaborating user stories
  • Non-functional requirements and business rules
  • Acceptance criteria

  • BA role in the Sprint
  • BA role in Sprint Planning
  • BA role in the Daily Scrum
  • Daily Scrum facilitation techniques
  • BA role in Sprint Review
  • BA role in Sprint Retrospective
  • When agile projects end

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