The Agile Business Analyst

PT24723
Training Summary
The Agile Business Analyst describes the role of the BA in an agile project environment. While examining core agile BA concepts, participants engage in hands-on exercises in order to learn commonly used tools and techniques. Topics include seeing the big picture; work of the BA on an agile team; fostering stakeholder engagement; an agile requirements model; features, epics, and stories; prioritizing requirements; making things real with models; conversation and discovery; fulfilling stakeholder needs and delivering value. Topics include:
  • Roles of the agile business analyst
  • The BA and team development
  • The agile requirements model
  • Developing the product backlog
  • Conversation-based discovery
  • Iteration planning
  • Using models to analyze requirements
  • Requirements prioritization
  • Verifying and validating requirements
  • BA participation in design and test
  • Solution validation
  • Post-Project solution assessment
Prerequisites
This course assumes that participants have participated in some projects and have some understanding of the agile project environment.
Duration
3 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course is of particular value to business analysts and other agile team members, Product Owners, other project staff with direct or indirect responsibility for requirements definition and analysis; Project Management Office staff; and managers of business analysts.
Course Topics
  • Introduction
  • The Business Analysis Professional
  • Stakeholder Collaboration Skills
  • Understanding Project Requirements
  • Enterprise Analysis
  • Requirements Planning in Agile
  • Requirements Elicitation
  • Analyzing Requirements
  • Communication in Agile
  • Verification and Validation
  • Additional BA Functions

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