Agile Project Management for Business Analysts provides the knowledge and practical skills needed to analyze business requirements, collaborate with Agile teams, and deliver successful projects in dynamic business environments.
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.
Audience
- Business customer, user or partner
- Project Sponsor or Project Owner
- Change analysts
- Project managers
- Agile developers
- Business Analyst
- Business Systems Analyst
- Systems Analyst
- Project Manager
- Systems Architect or Designer
- Systems or Application Developer
- QA Professional
- Systems Tester
- Leader of Systems projects or teams
- Anyone wanting to enhance their Agile business analysis skills
Pre- requisites
- none
Course Content
Agile Overview
- Why Agile
- Agile Manifest
- Flavors of Agile
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Scrum
- What is Scrum
- Scrum Values
- Scrum Pillars
- Scrum Roles
- Scrum Events
- Scrum Artifacts
- Scrum Board and Tools
- Agile Initiative Scrum
Scrum Execution
- Pre-Sprint
- Product Vision to Product Backlog
- User Persona
- User Journey
- User Story Mapping
- Building the Product Backlog
- Theme
- Epic
- Definition of Ready
- Definition of Done
- User Story Writing
- Prioritization
- Release Planning
- Sprint
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Prioritization
- Release Planning Sprint
- Sprint Calendar
- 4-Week Sprint
- 2-Week Sprint
- Sprint Planning
- Presentation
- Discussion
- Estimation
- Commitment
- Sprint Backlog’
- Daily Scrum/Standup Meeting
- Did Yesterday
- Do Today
- Impediments
- 16th Minute
- Mid-Sprint Product Backlog Refinement
- Sprint Review and Demo
- Review
- Demo
- Acceptance
- Sprint Retrospective
- Went Well
- Needs Improvement
- Action Items
- Next Sprint
- READY User Stories
- Release Plan Refinement
- Schedule of Release
- Kanban
- What is Kanban
- Kanban Roles
- Kanban Cards
- Kanban Events
- The Flow
Kanban Execution
- Pre-Kanban Checklist
- Release Schedule
- Policies
- Weekly Planning
- Backlog Prioritization
- Weekly Retrospective
- Backlog Prioritization
- Release
- Demo
- Schedule
