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Business Analysis in Agile Projects (ICP-APO)
The Lean and Agile mindsets and their practices give the Business Analyst new and powerful tools for quickly determining precisely what to build. Traditional system-development methodologies are just...
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$1,295 USD
Course Code
BA-AGILE-PROJ
Duration
2 days
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
The Lean and Agile mindsets and their practices give the Business Analyst new and powerful tools for quickly determining precisely what to build. Traditional system-development methodologies are just not responsive enough to the ever increasing pace of change. Building a system based on yesterday’s needs is not a success even if delivered on time and on budget. This indispensable course explores the critical need for good requirements development in an Agile environment and equips business analysts with the critical thinking, analytical skills, and necessary people skills they need to add value to every Agile project. This practical workshop provides participants with an understanding of the changing role of the business analyst as a co-creator of requirements rather than as an order taker. Participants learn the tools and techniques best suited to Agile, and the timing for performing key tasks and events. Explanatory, demonstrations, and practice exercises will provide you with the experience needed to create user stories that meet business needs. The International Consortium for Agile has worked with experts around the world to develop an education roadmap of training and certification for all specialties involved in Agile development. This course has been approved and earns students the ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Value Analysis designation upon successful completion of the course. Completion of this workshop satisfies part of the requirements for IC-Agile’s ICP-APO certification.
- Successfully complete an ICAgile accredited course taught by an ICAgile Authorized Instructor.
- ICAgile Authorized Instructors can withhold certifications based on lack of participation or understanding of course learning objectives.
Skills Gained
- Describe the economic benefits of lean and agile mindsets.
- Explain the various agile frameworks and practices for realizing agile benefits.
- Explain how the Business Analysts engage with an Agile Team
- Use agile practices to bolster analysis practices to deliver great value to stakeholders
- Use agile’s fast learning cycles to incrementally delivery value, discover what is really valuable to our stakeholders, and incorporate that learning into subsequent analysis
- Explain the different ways a BA engages with an Agile Team
- Use “just enough” modeling and “just enough” documentation to drive rapid learning.
- User various splitting techniques for refining large backlog items into stories a team can quickly and incrementally deliver
- Collaborate with the agile team to write user stories and refine the backlog
- Use the retrospective to improve the ways of working and value delivery.
Who Can Benefit
If you're involved at all with Agile projects or you want to learn more about how to incorporate Agile approaches into your projects, you simply must participate in this workshop.
- Business customer, user, or partner
- Project Sponsor or Project Owner
- Business Analyst
- Business Systems Analyst
- Systems Analyst
- Project Manager
- Systems Architect or Designer
- Systems or Application Developer
- QA Professional
- Systems Tester
- Leader of Systems projects or teams
- Anyone wanting to enhance their Agile business analysis skills
Course Details
Course Outline
- Part 1: Getting Started
- Part 2: Agile Overview
- Part 3: Building an Agile Team
- Part 4: Project Initiation
- Part 5: Backlog Planning
- Part 6: Managing the Backlog
- Part 7: Release Planning
- Part 8: Backlog Refinement
- Part 9: The Iteration
- Part 10: Inspect and Adapt
- Part 11: Agile Adoption