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Develop the skills needed to become a proficient Agile business analyst.

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Agile Business Analysis Foundation & Practitioner

Develop the skills needed to become a proficient Agile business analyst.

06 Oct 2020 Live Online 4 days Early bird £1450 +VAT Virtual enquiry On-site enquiry Book Course On-site enquiry

Course Overview

The Agile Business Analysis (Agile BA) Practitioner & Foundation course, accredited by the APMG, and created in conjunction with the DSDM Consortium, is designed to give the Business Analyst the skills needed to successfully gather, analyse, validate and champion the requirements throughout an Agile project. The course will describe the most popular Agile approaches and will use the DSDM Agile Project Framework to take the Agile Business Analyst through the phases of an Agile project.

To remain competitive organisations must shorten the time it takes to deliver business change effectively. Agile development approaches enable project teams to be more responsive to customer expectations and to deliver business value early.

Agile Business Analysts are an integrated part of the Agile team, working before projects and programmes are defined, and throughout the life of the project. They facilitate collaboration within teams and across the business. In addition to their skills of modelling and specification, the Agile Business Analyst requires new skills to support collaboration, facilitation and iterative working. They must adapt to new ways of gathering, analysing and managing the emerging and evolving requirements.

Course Content

The Holistic View of the Business

The Agile BA role in relation to mission and objectives
How to analyse the business environment
Measuring the success of implementing change

The Agile Landscape

What is Agile? Approaches and frameworks
Why is Agile needed?
Role and responsibilities of the Agile BA and Agile team

Stakeholders

Stakeholder types / personas
RACI and RASCI in Agile
Empowerment of Stakeholders in an Agile project

Dealing with Requirements

The Agile approach to requirements
User Stories, Epics, Acceptance Criteria
The Agile Business Analyst’s link to quality and testing
The Agile Requirements Life Cycle
Checking completeness

The Agile Business Case

Strategic and project business cases
Understanding the business problem
As Is, To Be, Abstraction
Gap Analysis and Value Streams

Facilitated Workshops

The role of Facilitation in Agile
How to organise and run a Facilitated Workshop

Prioritisation

Combining and prioritising requirements
Customer perception and expectation

Modelling and prototyping

6 perspectives for modelling
Tacit information
Reasons and perspectives for prototyping

Working in a timebox

Timebox structure and iterative development

Learning Objectives

This course will enable you to:

Understand the difference between traditional and Agile business analysis
Identify stakeholders, personas and their involvement in Agile
Describe the competencies and techniques of an Agile BA
Understand the BA role in the Agile team and the organisation
Capture and manage effective requirements for incremental solution delivery
Recognise how an Agile Business Case differs from a traditional business case and present a lean business canvas
Learn how modelling techniques fit into an Agile environment
Understand the importance of Facilitated Workshops
Understand the different ways of working as a BA in Agile

Audience

Those who are likely to be involved in business analysis within an Agile project, including:

Business Analysts
Product Owners and business representatives
Project Managers
Developers in Agile teams
Testers in Agile teams

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for the course

Course Preparation

There is no pre-course preparation required to attend this course.

Certifying Bodies & Exams

Multiple choice
50 questions per paper
25 marks required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
40 minute duration
Closed-book.

What You Receive

Copies of all presentation slides
Practical classroom group exercises
Agile Business Analysis Foundation Exam
Agile Business Analysis Practitioner Exam
AgileBA Handbook

Scrum Education Units (SEUs)

Attendees may be eligible to apply for 24 Scrum Educational Units (SEUs) towards their CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) through the Scrum Alliance.

PMI Professional Development Units (PDUS)

Attendees may be eligible to apply for 24 PDUs towards their continuing education requirements with PMI

Online Details

We use Zoom video conferencing to host our live online courses via a virtual classroom. We recommend that before registering participants run a zoom test meeting and check system requirements to ensure they are able to connect. Participants will also use our digital workspace, Mural and our Agile Tools Mobile app for collaboration with the class and completing exercises for the duration of the course. You’ll find links below to test and explain requirements for each of these tools.

Zoom requirements

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux

Zoom test meeting

https://zoom.us/test

Mural requirements

https://support.mural.co/en/articles/2113688-technical-requirements-to-run-mural

Agile Tools Mobile App

https://www.radtac.com/resources/agile-tools-mobile-app/

On registration full information will be provided via joining instructions to each partcipant with instructions on how to acess the virtual classroom and additional tools.

Still unsure? Talk to our team of friendly learning advisors, they are here to assist before, during and after your class if you have any questions.

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