Agile Business Analysis
- 2 Days Course
- Language: English
Introduction:
Agile business analysis plays a critical role in delivering customer value in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing environment. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), organizations that embrace Agile approaches are 28% more successful than those that don’t. This interactive, hands-on two-day course gives business analysts and Agile team members the skills to contribute meaningfully to iterative product development.
You’ll learn how to adopt an Agile mindset, collaborate effectively across teams, and prioritize what matters most to stakeholders. The course explores how Agile techniques can streamline business processes and improve responsiveness to change. Through real-world exercises and collaborative scenarios, you’ll practice writing user stories, mapping value, refining product backlogs, and supporting Agile planning. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped to drive better business outcomes through continuous delivery and informed decision-making.
Objectives:
In this training course, you’ll explore how business analysts support Agile teams throughout the product lifecycle. You’ll learn to apply Agile principles to elicit and manage requirements, write and refine user stories, and build a product backlog that aligns with customer value.
You’ll also examine the role of the business analyst in Scrum events and planning sessions, as well as techniques like impact mapping, story mapping, and sprint retrospectives.
Course Outline:
- Understanding Agile and Business Analysis
- Define the role of a business analyst in both traditional and Agile environments
- Explore the Agile Manifesto, principles, and values
- Scrum Framework & Team Roles
- Understand the empirical nature of Scrum
- Explore Scrum roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team
- Examine how Agile BAs support Scrum teams and contribute to events
- Visioning and Planning in Agile
- Identify the importance of vision and value in Agile initiatives
- Practice Agile planning techniques including story mapping and impact mapping
- Identifying Stakeholders and Defining User Roles
- Elicit and define user roles and profiles
- Emphasize customer-centric thinking in Agile analysis
- Building and Refining the Product Backlog
- Write effective user stories and acceptance criteria
- Define non-functional requirements and business rules
- Apply techniques for ordering and refining backlog items
- Project Inception and Sprint Zero
- Get Agile projects off the ground with structured planning
- Understand the goals of Sprint Zero
- BA Roles in Scrum Events
- Learn how BAs add value during Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective
- Use facilitation techniques to guide Agile ceremonies
- Agile Tools and Techniques
- Explore story maps, product roadmaps, and traceability tools
- Use Real Options Theory to manage changing requirements
Enroll in this course
$995.00 – $1,195.00
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