Agile Business Analysis

Introduction:

This two-day workshop provides the essential information needed for those in the business analyst role to be successful on Agile projects. You will learn the core agile concepts and have an opportunity to try them out immediately in a simulated project setting. You will use Scrum processes to write and prioritize user stories and get the detail needed for the Agile Team to plan and build user stories.

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

Objectives:

Describe the Agile business analysis mindset and the key Agile principles.
Articulate the role of the business analyst in an Agile context.
Identify and practice using various techniques to understand the business need, goals and objectives.
Elicit and identify user roles.
Understand the business analysis role in visioning and utilize project inception techniques.
Write effective user stories, acceptance criteria and product backlog items to build a product backlog.
Elicit and identify non-functional requirements and business rules associated with a user story.
Identify models to assist with elaboration of product backlog items (PBIs).
Describe the role of the business analyst in Scrum.

Course Outline:

1 – Agile Business Analysis Overview

Agile mindset
3 horizons of BA planning
Scrum framework and the Scrum team
BA tasks and competencies

2 – Strategy Analysis

Strategy analysis overview & key activities
Business /project context
Kano Analysis
Product Roadmap

3 – Project Inception

Project vision
Impact mapping
Story mapping
User role identification

4 – User Stories

User story elicitation techniques
Characteristics of a good user story
Acceptance criteria development

5 – Product Backlog

Product backlog items (business rules,
Backlog refinement
User story size adjustment
Story refinement through modeling

6 – BA Role in Scrum Events

Spring planning
Daily scrum meeting
Sprint Review meeting
Sprint Retrospective
Close project

7 – Facilitation

Facilitation overview
Scrum facilitator
Facilitation techniques in an Agile environment

Enroll in this course

$995.00

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EventDates

2023-07-24 09:30:00_2023-07-25 17:30:00
2023-11-14 09:30:00_2023-11-15 17:30:00
2024-02-27 09:30:00_2024-02-28 17:30:00
2024-04-09 09:30:00_2024-04-10 17:30:00
2024-05-21 09:30:00_2024-05-22 17:30:00
2024-07-09 09:30:00_2024-07-10 17:30:00
2024-08-20 09:30:00_2024-08-21 17:30:00
2024-10-01 09:30:00_2024-10-02 17:30:00
2024-11-12 09:30:00_2024-11-13 17:30:00

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