Description
This two-day workshop provides the essential information needed for those in the business analyst role to be successful on Agile projects. You will learn the core agile concepts and have an opportunity to try them out immediately in a simulated project setting. You will use Scrum processes to write and prioritize user stories and get the detail needed for the Agile Team to plan and build user stories.Note: This course has been approved by PMI for 14 PDUs and by IIBA for 14 CDUs.
Objectives
Course Objectives
Target audience
This course is intended for business analysts familiar with Agile or those performing business analysis tasks in an Agile environment. It is also suitable for anyone wanting to learn Agile analysis in depth or for those in an organization planning to expand their Agile BA practices.1 - Agile Business Analysis Overview
- Agile mindset
- 3 horizons of BA planning
- Scrum framework and the Scrum team
- BA tasks and competencies
2 - Strategy Analysis
- Strategy analysis overview & key activities
- Business /project context
- Kano Analysis
- Product Roadmap
3 - Project Inception
- Project vision
- Impact mapping
- Story mapping
- User role identification
4 - User Stories
- User story elicitation techniques
- Characteristics of a good user story
- Acceptance criteria development
5 - Product Backlog
- Product backlog items (business rules,
- Backlog refinement
- User story size adjustment
- Story refinement through modeling
6 - BA Role in Scrum Events
- Spring planning
- Daily scrum meeting
- Sprint Review meeting
- Sprint Retrospective
- Close project
7 - Facilitation
- Facilitation overview
- Scrum facilitator
- Facilitation techniques in an Agile environment