Agile Business Analysis

Full Course Description

Agile Business Analysis involves facilitating dialogue about product value with the team, making Product Owner's (PO) more efficient, and analyzing for gaps and impacts.  Agile is a set of values and principles that
help ensure what is built is valuable.  

Through a balanced combination of lecture, candid discussion and hands-on exercises we will explore how to drive innovative solutions to complex business problems from discovery to delivery.  Find out what design thinking and ‘minimum viable product’ means and when to use them.  By taking an agile approach to requirements and understanding the Scrum framework, user stories, and techniques for strategic planning such as story mapping, you can learn how the Agile BA role can transform a team.

Participants will learn to:

• Transform a traditional BA skillset to agile practices and events
• Find balance between the Product Owner and the Agile BA roles
• Understand the Scrum framework and agile values from a BA’s perspective
• Evolve to a product mindset and drive opportunities for discovery to delivery
• Define requirements using agile values and principles
• Elicit business strategies and requirements using techniques such as user stories and Business Model Canvas
• Support POs to deliver value increments through Backlog management
• Understand design thinking and personas
• Identify opportunities for experimental development to facilitate short feedback loops using concepts such as minimum viable product (MVP)
• Forecast strategically with Release Plans and Product Roadmaps using empirical data
• Drive requirements to support testing first and often
• Understand team cross-functional skills needed to support vertical slicing which minimizes dependencies
• Recognize the importance of embracing change, and using change for competitive advantage