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Learning Objectives
In this course, students will:- Understand the fundamentals of agile delivery and agile business analysis
- Compare and contrast business analysis on waterfall and agile projects
- Explain the value proposition for agile product development
- Define the 4 main types of project life cycles
- Complete an in-depth walkthrough of the agile delivery life cycle
- Explain the major flavors of agile
- Understand the major standards available to assist in transition of skills
- Define business analysis tailoring and understand how to apply it
- Learn over 20 business analysis techniques commonly used on agile projects
Course Details
Course Outline
1 - Introduction
- What is agile
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile principles
- Agile benefits
- Hands-on activity
2 - Learning and course objectives
- The current state of agile
- Agile trends
- Agile skills
- Value proposition
- The business case for agile
- The BA role changes on an agile project
- Hands-on activity
3 - Understanding project life cycles
- Project life cycle
- Product life cycle
- Incremental versus Iterative
- Hybrid approaches to delivery
- Choosing a project life cycle
4 - An in-depth look at Agile
- The agile development life cycle
- A sequence of iterations
- Essential concepts
- Inside each iteration
- Iteration goal
- Iteration planning
- Sequence of tasks
- Work period
- Testing
- End of iteration activities
- Evaluation and feedback
- Structured walkthroughs
- Evaluation guidelines
- The BA role in structured walkthroughs
- Scripting scenarios
- Defect list
- Retrospectives
- Hands-on exercise
5 - Type of Agile Delivery Approaches
- The flavors of agile
- Scrum
- Scrum roles
- Extreme Programming (XP)
- Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM)
- Feature Driven Development (FDD)
- Testing
- Best practices used by FDD
- Kanban
- Kanban Boards
- Agile Unified Process
- Scaling Frameworks
6 - Introduction to Agile Business Analysis
- What is business analysis?
- What is agile business analysis?
- Framework for agile business analysis
- Business analysis components
- International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)
- Project Management Institute (PMI®)
- Context to business analysis
- Our industry BA standards
- Our industry Agile BA standards
- Product Owners
- What stays the same
- What is expected to change
- Agile requirements deliverables
- Lightweight documentation
- Requirements repository
- Where business analysis fits in
- The BA workload
- Hands-on exercise
7 - Business Analysis Tailoring
- Business analysis tailoring (defined)
- Tailoring considerations
- What tailoring looks like
- The PMI Guide to Business Analysis
- Determining the ‘best’ BA approach
- Methodology vs Standard
- Why use methodologies
- Determining your methodology
- Business analysis impacts
8 - Tools and techniques for agile business analysis
- Agile BA techniques
- Backlog refinements
- Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
- Burndown chart
- Collaborative games
- Definition of done
- Definition of ready
- INVEST
- Iteration planning
- Kanban board
- Minimum marketable features (MMF)
- Minimum viable product (MVP)
- MoSCoW
- Narrative writing
- Persona analysis
- Product roadmap
- Progressive Elaboration
- Prototyping
- Purpose alignment model
- Retrospectives
- Story slicing
- Hands-on Exercise
9 - Prioritization Techniques
- Requirements prioritization
- Prioritizing on agile projects
- Prioritization criteria
- Business benefit
- MoSCoW
- Pair-choice comparison
- Setting priorities with multi-voting
- Cost to acquire and operate
- Determining business value
- Story point estimating
- Planning poker
- Project velocity
- Hands-on activity
10 - Course wrap-up
- Making the transition to agile
- How my role will be different
- Course summary
- Retrospective
- Questions
Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.