Agile Project Management for Business Analysts

Course Description

Duration: 3 days – 21 hrs

Overview

This Agile Business Analysis Training Course is a practical workshop ideally suited for Business Analysts, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Agile Team members looking to understand and hone their skills in Story Mapping, User Story writing and elaborating stories with well written acceptance criteria.

This course focuses on the business analyst role to be successful on Agile projects. Course participants will learn how to cooperate with the Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master as well as with the Customer to facilitate the development process. Participants will go through a mock project practicing common scenarios.

It’s designed for business analysts and analysts who are new to Agile, or those who are transitioning from a traditional waterfall requirement gathering approach to an Agile one. You will leave with a solid understanding of the successes and challenges that occur in a Scrum framework.

Traditional system development methodologies are rapidly being replaced by more iterative or agile approaches. More and more organizations are realizing the benefits of faster product deployment at a lower cost, with less rework due to missed requirements. Effective business analysis is key to developing those requirements and keeping projects on track. This indispensable course explores the contributions of good requirements development in an agile environment and equips business analysts with the critical thinking, analytical skills, and necessary people skills they need to add value to every agile project.

Objectives

Describe the foundations of Agile
Explain the Agile business analysis process
Define how enterprise analysis aligns with Agile organizations
Identify stakeholder relationships with business analysts throughout Agile projects
Describe the development process of a business case
Examine the requirements to develop epics and user stories
Organize and prepare an Agile backlog
Apply Agile processes to achieve success
Demonstrate Agile business analysis techniques
Evaluate a variety of Agile “flavors”
Review levels and types of requirements
Define the roles of Agile project team members
Practice defining personas
Work as a team to discover and write user stories
Review requirements elicitation and discovery methods
Understand story decomposition and modeling with simple graphical methods
Practice eliciting and validating information from project stakeholders
Assess the importance and priority of product features
Hone your problem identification, definition, and solving capabilities
Improve your business analysis on Agile projects by exploring a framework of tools, techniques, and tips. You’ll gain an understanding of the changing role of the business analyst and the tools and techniques best suited to Agile projects.