Business Analysis in Agile Projects

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 Outline

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

Training Location

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