Course description
The Agile Business Analysis defines improvements to business processes, assists decision-makers in gathering information to make decisions, helps quality assurance test solutions and products, designs user interfaces and even steps in as a product owner, scrum master, or project manager. The Agile way of working is becoming ever more popular in modern business. It’s a smart way to work, and so it makes sense for you, the business analyst, to get to grips with how you can contribute to the success of Agile development projects.
Agile Business Analysis training course will help you do just that. Based on a true-to-life case study, You'll use your existing business analysis knowledge and techniques and practice applying the Agile approach within a business analysis scenario. You'll come away with a real understanding of how business analysis is applied within the context of the Agile philosophy. You'll not only explore the philosophy behind Agile, but the methods and techniques used within the business and the principles that guide this way of working. You'll also consider holistic and lean thinking, and how they can benefit your business.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Agile Business Analysis training course, is ideal for :
- Business Analysts
- Product Owners and business representatives
- Project Managers
- Developers in Agile teams
- Testers in Agile teams
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of the Agile Business Analysis training course, you will be able to :
- Evaluate a variety of Agile "flavors"
- Review levels and types of requirements
- Define the roles of Agile project team members
- Practice defining personas
- Work as a team to discover and write user stories
- Review requirements elicitation and discovery methods
- Understand story decomposition and modeling with simple graphical methods
- Practice eliciting and validating information from project stakeholders
- Assess the importance and priority of product features
- Hone your problem identification, definition, and solving capabilities
- Understand how Agile works and why it's such a big deal
- Understand your role on the agile team
- Write effective user stories and acceptance criteria
- Develop backlogs that translate into awesome products
- Use story mapping to simplify your workslate
Training Course Content
Day 1
Getting Started
- Why Agile?
- Agile components (principles, methods & techniques)
- Agile in the business context
- Lean Business Analysis Service, system and Lean thinking)
Day 2
Stakeholders and Building an Agile Team
- Stakeholder groups
- Understanding the customer
- Agile BA role in stakeholder engagement and management
- The Team as a System
- The Business Analyst
Day 3
Agile Modelling
- Purpose and principles behind Agile Modelling
- The hierarchy of models (business view to system component)
- Prioritisation using MoSCoW
- Agile Documentation
- Requirements Elaboration
- Decomposing and organizing business goals
Day 4
Agile Techniques
- User stories and roles
- The Product Backlog
- Writing User Stories
- Guidelines for Good Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Managing requirements with the solution backlog
- Estimating story points
- Managing the iterations (Planning, aligning, traceability, velocity)
Day 5
Agile BA Planning
- BA role in agile projects
- Storyboarding/scenarios/prototyping
- Creating a kanban board
- Scaling Agile
- Constraining factors
- The system of interest
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