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This indispensable course explores the contributions of good requirements development in an Agile environment & equips business analysts with the critical thinking, analytical skills,& necessary people skills they need to add value to every Agile project

  • Course Start Date: 2024-04-08
  • Time: 12:00:00 - 16:30:00
  • Duration: 3 Day(s)
  • Location: Toronto-Markham
  • Delivery Method(s): Virtual Instructor Led

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Delivered by ASPE, ICAgile Member Organization

This course gives business analysts hands-on experience with proven techniques for discovering, understanding and describing product vision; understanding and depicting persons and user stories; identifying and describing additional requirements and acceptance criteria; modeling desired product features and functions; working collaboratively with other team members; and communicating expertly with colleagues, sponsors and business customers.

Course Outline
1.Agile Essentials

-What is Agile?-The Agile Manifesto and Guiding Principles
-A Variety of Agile Approaches
-Hybridizing Agile
-Which Agile is Right for You?
-Business Analysis for Agile Projects

2.The Agile Business Analyst
-The Role of Business Analyst in Agile Projects
-BA Underlying Competencies
-Review of Requirements Basics
-It's Still About Asking the Right Questions
-Business Analysis Techniques: Some You Know and Some New Ones
-Mapping BA Techniques to Agile
-Guidelines for Agile Business Analysis

3.The Product Vision
- A Framework for Assessing Business Needs and Value
-Defining the Product That Solves the Problem
-Building a Product Road Map
-The Importance of Release Planning
-Stakeholders, Actors and Personas

4.The Voice of the Customer
-Concepts — Goals, Themes and Epics
-User Stories
-Use Cases
-Story/Feature Mapping
-Story Decomposition
-Story Elaboration
-Defining Acceptance Criteria
-Storyboarding for Validation

5.Prioritizing for Business Value
-What is a Product Backlog?
-Prioritizing Items for the Backlog
-The Importance of Sprint Planning
-Managing and Grooming the Backlog

6.Clarify with Examples: Moving Toward Behavior
-Driven Development
-Understanding Behavior
-Driven Development
-How Real Examples Bridge the Gap
-Using Analysis Models for Elaboration
-The “Given/When/Then/And” Technique

7.Collaboration and Continuous Improvement
-Creating a Safe Working Environment
-Using Collaborative Games
-The Importance of Stand-Ups and Sprint Reviews
-Retrospectives: Lessons Learned
-Working Toward Continuous Improvement

Cancellation Policy

If a change needs to be made to your public course registration (cancel, transfer, or substitution) ASPE must receive written notice via email at customerservice@aspeinc.com or fax at 919-816-1710. If a cancel or transfer request is made less than 15 business days prior to the class start date, payment will still be due, no refunds will be issued and you will be charged a $200 change fee. Your paid tuition will be available for one year to be used as a credit towards another course of equal value; only one reenrollment opportunity is allowed. Failure to attend the course without written notification will result in forfeiture of the full course price. Student substitutions may be made at any time prior to the start of class free of charge. If ASPE is forced to cancel a course for any reason, liability is limited to the registration fee only.

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About ASPE Training Inc.

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ASPE is a training company committed to providing training. We provide real-world, unbiased, pragmatic training and consulting on all aspects of the software development life cycle. Our catalog includes courses in Agile Software Development, Project Management, Business Requirements & Analysis, and Software Testing. Our training courses are offered via public open enrollment classes in some Canadian cities and virtually, or can be custom tailored to your needs through our highly regarded onsite (private) delivery practice.

Our courses incorporate real, hands-on experience from real professionals in all of our training courses in order to maximize the amount of knowledge and skills you acquire. Too often, students leave a course learning information, but not being able to apply it to real-world situations. Our goal is for you to be able to actualize the skills and tools you learn in the course and having no doubt that you can apply them within your organization on a daily basis.  

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Course was professionally conducted and the opportunity for practice the concepts with hands on exercises was very useful.

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Victor V attended this course Jun 2018

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