Agile Business Analysis Foundation

Course Summary:

The Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA) Foundation course, accredited by the APMG and created in conjunction with the Agile Business Consortium, is designed to equip Business Analysts with the essential skills needed to successfully gather, analyse, validate, and champion 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 Analyst through the various phases of an Agile project.

Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise in Agile business and analysis or enhance your ability to drive value in Agile environments, this course provides the foundational knowledge and practical tools to succeed.

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Description

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 Objectives

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

What topics are covered?

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

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

Developers in Agile teams
Testers in Agile teams
Team Leaders

What about exams and certifications?

Delegates sit a 40 minute multiple choice Agile BA Foundation paper on the third day. Successful candidates are awarded an APMG Foundation Certificate in Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA).

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

There are no pre-requisites for this course.

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