Agile Business Analysis

Price
$1,195.00 USD

Duration
2 Days

 

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

Course Overview

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.

Note: This course has been approved by PMI for 14 PDUs and by IIBA for 14 CDUs.

Course 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

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for business analysts familiar with Agile or those performing business analysis tasks in an Agile environment. It is also suitable for anyone wanting to learn Agile analysis in depth or for those in an organization planning to expand their Agile BA practices.
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Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Agenda

Business Analysis Overview

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

Agile Overview

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

Scrum Framework

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

Agile Business Analysis

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

Visioning

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

User Roles and Profiles

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

High-Level Planning

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

Project Inception

  • Getting agile initiatives started
  • Sprint Zero

The Product Backlog

  • Product backlog characteristics
  • Quality user story characteristics

Order the Product Backlog

  • Techniques for ordering product backlog items

Refining the Product Backlog

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

BA Role in Scrum Events

  • BA role in the Sprint
  • BA role in Spring 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
 

Upcoming Class Dates and Times

Jan 14,15
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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Feb 25,26
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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Apr 8,9
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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May 20,21
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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July 8,9
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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Aug 19,20
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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Sep 30,Oct 1
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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Nov 11,12
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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