Agile Business Analysis Foundation & Practitioner
- Location: Live Online
- Duration: 4 days
- Exam Fee Included
- Trainer-led
The Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA) Foundation & Practitioner course, accredited by the APMG and created in conjunction with the Agile Business Consortium, is designed to give the Business Analyst the skills needed to successfully gather, analyse, validate, and champion the requirements throughout an Agile project.
This Agile business analysis course covers the most popular Agile approaches and leverages the DSDM Agile Project Framework to guide the Agile business and analysis process through the phases of an Agile project.
By focusing on key principles of Agile business analysis, the course equips professionals with the expertise to enhance collaboration, adaptability, and value delivery in Agile environments.
Course Dates:
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 topics
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
Course objectives
- 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
What about exams and certifications?
Delegates sit a 40 minute multiple choice Foundation paper on the third day and on passing this are eligible to sit the 2.5 hour Practitioner Complex Multiple Choice exam on the fourth day. Successful candidates are awarded both an APMG Foundation Certificate and APMG Practitioner Certificate in Agile BA.
Who is this course suitable for?
Those who are likely to be involved in the management of Agile projects and programmes, including:
- Project Board and Project Steering Representatives
- Project Management Office Personnel
- Business Analysts
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control Managers
- Project Managers
- Team Leaders
Are there any prerequisites for this course?
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
