TP2465
Agile for Business Analysts Training
In this Agile course, business analysts will learn how to perform ‘just in time’ and ‘just enough’ Business Analysis on an Agile project to incrementally develop a comprehensive understanding of business goals and requirements.
Course Details
Duration
2 days
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is presumed.
Target Audience
- BAs and BSAs of all levels working on or interested in working on, agile projects
- Managers of BAs (PMs, BA Leads, etc.)
Skills Gained
- Understand the Agile mindset and the Scrum and Kanban frameworks
- Be able to carry out the Business Analysis function on an agile project using an analytical approach that integrates best practices from Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
- Be able to stage Agile ‘Just In Time’ ‘Just Barely Enough’ requirements
- Shepherd an initiative from Vision to requirements while keeping the value chain intact over an Agile project
- Generate Story Maps to guide the timing of requirements and feature rollout for a project – to help the team visualize dependencies and relationships between User Stories.
- Assist business owners in overcoming the tendency to view all requirements as ‘high priority and guide them toward an MVP/MMP (Minimum Viable Product/Minimum Marketable Product) iterative development approach.
- Integrate Design Thinking and Lean Startup principles into the product development lifecycle – from visioning through development to final deployment to the marketplace
- Guide the business in Agile planning at various horizons: Strategic, long-term planning; mid-term (next quarter, Release Planning); short-term (next 2-3 weeks)
- Assist the Customer in making effective choices for the iterative rollout of features in a way that maximizes business value early
- Track dependencies between requirements
- Be able to split epics into valuable User Stories by applying the Lawrence Patterns and INVEST guidelines
- Manage additional non-functional requirements.
- Apply the following Agile tools and concepts in an agile context:
- Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and MVP
- User Personas
- Epics and User Stories
- Spikes
- Backlog Refinement (Grooming)
- 3 Amigos Meetings
- Product Canvas
- Product Roadmap
- Story Mapping
- The Planning Game
- Scrum Lifecycle
- Planning Poker; Delphi Estimation
- Kanban Board
- Metrics: Burndown Chart; Burnup Chart, Cumulative Flow Diagram
Course Outline
- What is Agile?
- What is agile
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile principles
- Agile benefits
- State of Agile
- The current state of Agile
- Agile trends
- Agile skills
- Value proposition
- The business case for Agile
- The BA role changes on an Agile project
- Project Life Cycles
- Project life cycle
- Product life cycle
- Incremental versus Iterative
- Hybrid approaches to delivery
- Choosing a project life cycle
- 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
- Types 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
- An 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Preparing for the IIBA-AAC
- IIBA-AAC Explained
- The IIBA-AAC Exam
- 7 Agile Principles Guiding Business Analysis
- Scope of the Exam
- Planning Horizons Defined
- Exam Blueprint
- The IIBA-AAC Exam Process
- Agile Mindset
- Required Proficiency Level
- Strategy Horizon (Explained)
- Level of Proficiency Required in Strategy Horizon
- Initiative Horizon (Explained)
- Level of Proficiency Required in Initiative Horizon
- Delivery Horizon (Explained)
- Level of Proficiency Required in Delivery Horizon
- IIBA-AAC Terminology
- IIBA-AAC Techniques
- Are you ready for the IIBA-AAC?
- Wrap-Up
- Making the transition to Agile
- How my role will be different
