Agile Business Analysis

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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

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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We've got your learning needs covered with a variety of options, from virtual classes led by our expert instructors to self-paced courses you can take anytime, or group workshops for your whole team to learn together. It's all about giving you choices that work best for you.

Self-Paced On-Demand

Pre-recorded training taught by an expert.

This on-demand course includes:

6-Month Access to Online Training Portal
Agile Business Analysis Student Manual
Additional Agile Business Analysis Training Aids

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The facilitator is a true pro. His instruction was phenomenal. He knows the content, uses it in his own life, and is extremely positive and motivating.

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What Our Students Are Saying

5.0

The facilitator is a true pro. His instruction was phenomenal. He knows the content, uses it in his own life, and is extremely positive and motivating.

5.0

This has been the best course yet! It has helped me with a personal discovery about how I do things and communicate with others, and how I can evolve.

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