BA08 – Agile for Business Analysts

As more organizations are moving to agile delivery, it is becoming increasingly important for business analysis professionals to understand how to adapt their current skills to support different delivery frameworks. Even when organizations have not fully embraced agile, research shows that many teams are embracing ‘some’ agile practices.    Traditional waterfall business analysis skills are still important, but so is professionally developing to understand how to adapt your processes and skills as delivery frameworks evolve. Project success is dependent on effective business analysis, therefore business analysis professionals must continue to evolve their skillsets to keep up with the needs and expectations of agile teams. Many traditional project teams run into trouble when they try to define all of the requirements up front. The reality is that stakeholders often cannot articulate their requirements and the best design is not known until some prototypes are built.  Every project and program can benefit from adopting some agile practices.

  • Price: $1,395.00
  • Duration: N/A
  • Delivery Methods: Virtual
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Course Outline

1 – Introduction
  • What is agile
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Agile principles
  • Agile benefits
  • Hands-on activity
2 – Learning and course objectives
  • The current state of agile
  • Agile trends
  • Agile skills
  • Value proposition
  • The business case for agile
  • The BA role changes on an agile project
  • Hands-on activity
3 – Understanding project life cycles
  • Project life cycle
  • Product life cycle
  • Incremental versus Iterative
  • Hybrid approaches to delivery
  • Choosing a project life cycle
4 – An in-depth look at Agile
  • The agile development life cycle
  • A sequence of iterations
  • Essential concepts
  • Inside each iteration
  • Iteration goal
  • Iteration planning
  • Sequence of tasks
  • Work period
  • Testing
  • End of iteration activities
  • Evaluation and feedback
  • Structured walkthroughs
  • Evaluation guidelines
  • The BA role in structured walkthroughs
  • Scripting scenarios
  • Defect list
  • Retrospectives
  • Hands-on exercise
5 – Type of Agile Delivery Approaches
  • The flavors of agile
  • Scrum
  • Scrum roles
  • Extreme Programming (XP)
  • Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM)
  • Feature Driven Development (FDD)
  • Testing
  • Best practices used by FDD
  • Kanban
  • Kanban Boards
  • Agile Unified Process
  • Scaling Frameworks
6 – Introduction to Agile Business Analysis
  • What is business analysis?
  • What is agile business analysis?
  • Framework for agile business analysis
  • Business analysis components
  • International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)
  • Project Management Institute (PMI®)
  • Context to business analysis
  • Our industry BA standards
  • Our industry Agile BA standards
  • Product Owners
  • What stays the same
  • What is expected to change
  • Agile requirements deliverables
  • Lightweight documentation
  • Requirements repository
  • Where business analysis fits in
  • The BA workload
  • Hands-on exercise
7 – Business Analysis Tailoring
  • Business analysis tailoring (defined)
  • Tailoring considerations
  • What tailoring looks like
  • The PMI Guide to Business Analysis
  • Determining the ‘best’ BA approach
  • Methodology vs Standard
  • Why use methodologies
  • Determining your methodology
  • Business analysis impacts
8 – Tools and techniques for agile business analysis
  • Agile BA techniques
  • Backlog refinements
  • Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
  • Burndown chart
  • Collaborative games
  • Definition of done
  • Definition of ready
  • INVEST
  • Iteration planning
  • Kanban board
  • Minimum marketable features (MMF)
  • Minimum viable product (MVP)
  • MoSCoW
  • Narrative writing
  • Persona analysis
  • Product roadmap
  • Progressive Elaboration
  • Prototyping
  • Purpose alignment model
  • Retrospectives
  • Story slicing
  • Hands-on Exercise
9 – Prioritization Techniques
  • Requirements prioritization
  • Prioritizing on agile projects
  • Prioritization criteria
  • Business benefit
  • MoSCoW
  • Pair-choice comparison
  • Setting priorities with multi-voting
  • Cost to acquire and operate
  • Determining business value
  • Story point estimating
  • Planning poker
  • Project velocity
  • Hands-on activity
10 – Course wrap-up
  • Making the transition to agile
  • How my role will be different
  • Course summary
  • Retrospective
  • Questions

 

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.

Learning Objectives

In this course, students will:

    • Understand the fundamentals of agile delivery and agile business analysis
    • Compare and contrast business analysis on waterfall and agile projects
    • Explain the value proposition for agile product development
    • Define the 4 main types of project life cycles
    • Complete an in-depth walkthrough of the agile delivery life cycle
    • Explain the major flavors of agile
    • Understand the major standards available to assist in transition of skills
    • Define business analysis tailoring and understand how to apply it
    • Learn over 20 business analysis techniques commonly used on agile projects

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