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Agile for Business Analysis

Agile for Business Analysis

$1,495.00

Agile Business Analysts are an integrated part of the Agile team, working before projects and programs 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, analyzing, and managing the emerging and evolving requirements.

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About the course:

As you and your team work through a case study project, you’ll learn how to use agile analysis tools to help teams overcome some of the most vexing issues that confront agile teams today, including: how to work with the business to develop a product development strategy on an agile project, how to help business owners overcome ‘prioritization phobia’ by guiding them towards iterative, MVP/MMP development; how to track dependencies between requirements; how and when to unbundle epics into manageable User Stories; when to ‘bend’ agile principles; how to apply UML 2.0; and how to manage supplementary requirements such as non-functional requirements and constraints. You will also learn when and how to create requirements documentation for communication with non-agile teams and for future use on Maintenance and Enhancement initiatives after the project is over.

Objectives:

  • Be able to carry out the Business Analysis function on an agile project using an ‘end-to-end’ agile analysis approach that grows requirements from business needs to detailed User Requirements.
  • Implement an integrated lean, agile analysis approach that ties together tools from Scrum, Lean Startup, Extreme Programming (XP) User Stories, Story Mapping, Kanban and Use Case 2.0.
  • Be able to guide the business in agile planning at various horizons: Strategic (long-term) planning; Mid-term (Quarterly/Release Planning); Short-term (next 2-3 weeks).
  • Be able to integrate Lean Startup principles and practices into the product development lifecycle – from visioning through development to final validation in the marketplace.
  • Be able to help guide Customers towards an MVP/MMP (Minimum Viable Product/Minimum Marketable Product) iterative approach to development.
  • Be able to split epics into valuable User Stories by applying the Lawrence Patterns and INVEST
  • Create high-quality User Stories.
  • Be able to guide the Customer to make effective choices for the iterative rollout of features in a way that maximizes business value early.
  • Trace User Stories and iteration (Sprint) goals backwards to Use Cases, business processes and business needs; forwards to tests and solution artifacts; and horizontally, to track dependencies between requirements.
  • Know when and how to create Acceptance Criteria using the BDD template.
  • Identify analysis and implementation gaps in each iteration and be able to forecast the need for temporary workarounds.
  • Identify and document defect-handling activities (‘bug fixes’) within the User Story approach.

 

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