AGILE BUSINESS ANALYSIS

Overview

This three day workshop is designed to give the Business Analyst a thorough grounding in the skills needed to successfully gather, analyse, manage and champion the requirements throughout an Agile project. The course will consider several of the most popular Agile approaches and will concentrate on one in detail to take the Agile Business Analyst through the phases of an Agile project in their role, allowing practice in the techniques in a realistic situation.

Duration

This is a 3 day course.

Prerequisites and evening study

There are no pre-requisites. No evening work is necessary, unless an examination is requested.

Examinations

Delegates have the option of sitting the 1 hour multiple choice Agile Foundation examination at the end of the course if booked beforehand.

Course Objectives

This course will enable delegates to:

• State the difference between a Traditional BA and an Agile BA
• Identify stakeholders, roles and responsibilities in Agile
• Describe the competencies and characteristics of an Agile BA and their role in the Agile team
• Understand the benefits and risks of Agile analysis
• Produce and prioritise effective requirements for in-house development and incremental deliveries
• Produce effective requirements for Invitations to Tender (ITTs)
• Create an Agile Business Case

Who Should Attend

Those who are likely to be involved in business analysis within an Agile project, including:

• Business Analysts
• Product Owners and business representatives
• Project Managers with Agile teams to manage
• Developers in Agile teams
• Testers in Agile teams who need to understand the Business Analysis role in relation to their own

Course Content

What is Agile? Approach, principles and frameworks
Role and responsibilities of the Agile Business Analyst
Other Agile roles, skills, responsibilities and team structures
Stakeholder Analysis in an Agile project
The Agile approach to requirements, features and user stories
The Agile Business Analyst's link to quality and testing
The Agile Business Case
As Is, To Be, Abstraction, NDUF, BDUF, EDUF
Gap Analysis and Value Streams
Alternative solutions and options
The role of Facilitation in Agile
How to organise and run a Facilitated Workshop
Elicitation, Analysis, Validation, Management
Combining and prioritising requirements
Checking completeness
Scenario Analysis
Modelling
Swim Lanes
Use Cases
User Stories
Knowledge Types
Prototyping
Timeboxing and Estimating
Reviews, walkthroughs and inspections
Requirements evolution
Embracing change
Incremental delivery

Do you want:

• a training course run on your premises (reducing accommodation and travel fees)?
• a course written or tailored specifically for your staff?
• a standard course run just for your staff?

Do you have:

• four or more people to train?
• a definite time at which the training needs to be provided?

Then you're probably looking for "in-house" training.

We can run any of our standard courses just for you. If you require something special, or a combination of several courses, we can discuss this with you and tailor an event designed to meet your needs. These courses can be run at a time convenient to you, either on your premises or at a separate venue. The location can be specified by you or we can recommend a suitable venue if you prefer.

Need more help?

We can advise on combinations of training courses which typically prove the most effective. We can, if you wish, perform a full training needs analysis of your staff, to help you to identify training needs, and the programmes of training to put into place to meet both your current and future needs.

What to do next...

• Decide what you want from this training - what are your objectives?
• Decide which course(s) you need, or whether something tailored is required;
• Decide approximately when you would like the training to be run;
• Ascertain when your people can be available and how many people in total you need to train.

Then please contact us to discuss your needs.