The Agile Business Analysis (Agile BA) course, accredited by the APMG is designed to give the Business Analyst the skills needed to successfully gather, analyse, validate and champion the requirements throughout an Agile project. The course will describe the most popular Agile approaches and will use the DSDM Agile Project Framework to take the Agile Business Analyst through the phases of an Agile project.
To remain competitive in rapidly changing market conditions, organisations must shorten the time it takes to deliver business change effectively. Agile development approaches enable project teams to be more responsive to customer expectations and to deliver business value early.
Agile Business Analysts are an integrated part of the Agile team throughout the life of the project. They facilitate collaboration within the project team and across the business. In addition to their traditional skills of modelling and specification, the Agile Business Analyst requires new skills in collaboration, facilitation, leadership and coaching. They must adapt to new ways of eliciting, specifying and managing requirements.
Learning Objectives
This course will enable delegates to:
- 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
Pre-Requisites
There are no pre-requisites for the course.
Course Content
- The Holistic View of the Business
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- 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
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- What is Agile? Approaches and frameworks
- Why is Agile needed?
- Role and responsibilities of the Agile BA and Agile team
- Stakeholders
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- Stakeholder types / personas
- RACI and RASCI in Agile
- Empowerment of Stakeholders in an Agile project
- Dealing with Requirements
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- 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
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- Strategic and project business cases
- Understanding the business problem
- As Is, To Be, Abstraction
- Gap Analysis and Value Streams
- Facilitated Workshops
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- The role of Facilitation in Agile
- How to organise and run a Facilitated Workshop
- Prioritisation
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- Combining and prioritising requirements
- Customer perception and expectation
- Modelling and prototyping
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- 6 perspectives for modelling
- Tacit information
- Reasons and perspectives for prototyping
- Working in a timebox
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- Timebox structure and iterative development
Exams & Certification
Foundation Level
Exam Format
- Multiple Choice
- 50 questions per paper
- 25 marks required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
- 40 minutes duration
- Closed-book
Practitioner Level
Exam Format
- Complex Multiple Choice
- 4 questions per paper with 20 marks available per question
- 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) - 50%
- 2.5 hour duration
- Open-book (AgileBA Handbook only)
