Agile Business Analysis Programme
INTRODUCTION
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.
The course provides participants with an understanding of the changing role of the business analyst, the tools and techniques best suited to Agile, and the timing for performing key tasks and events. Explanatory, demonstrations, and practice exercises will provide you with the experience needed to create user stories that meet business needs.
OBJECTIVES
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
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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
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
COURSE OUTLINE
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
