Overview

Business analysts are responsible for eliciting, synthesizing and analysing requirements from a large variety of sources. They play a vital role in projects ensuring solutions are aligned with stakeholders’ needs. With more and more organisations adopting agile approaches, business analysts need to combine analysis skills with agile tools and techniques. Agile BAs focus on value delivery from the perspective of the user, describing the capabilities needed, as well as the benefits they would provide.

This practical workshop will equip you with the with the skills you need to operate in an agile environment. You will learn agile business analysis principles and how to manage agile requirements, from inception to delivery. The workshop will examine stakeholder and user types and how to deeply understand their needs to drive solution development. Beyond user stories, you will learn how to work with agile requirements effectively to deliver maximum business value.

All public courses are available as in-house training. Contact us for more information.

Learning Objectives

 

  • Understand agile business analysis principles and the agile mindset.
  • Apply business analysis skills to manage agile requirements.
  • Define user stories and why they are used by agile teams.
  • Identify the elements of good user stories.
  • Learn techniques to identify, categorise and analyse user types.
  • Manage user stories through the story lifecycle.
  • Recognise factors that influence prioritisation.
  • Write effective acceptance criteria.
  • Elaborate user stories to enable efficient solution delivery.
  • Perform backlog refinement to drive maximum value.
  • Maintain a collaborative approach to working with user stories.

 

Course Outline

Agile BA Mindset

  • Agile Delivery
  • Agile values and principles
  • Agile mindset
  • Agile Business Analysis
  • Principles of agile business analysis
  • Analysis at multiple horizons

Understanding User Stories

  • Defining User Stories
  • Why use stories instead of regular specifications
  • The User Story lifecycle
  • A collaborative approach to value delivery
  • Facilitation skills
  • Elicitation techniques

Identifying User Stories

  • Creating a shared vision
  • Solution Roadmaps
  • Collaborating with stakeholders
  • Understanding user types
  • Identifying user segments and categories
  • Applying personas to deeply understand users

Working with User Stories

  • Progressive elaboration
  • Understanding epics, features and stories
  • Writing effective stories
  • Using Story Maps to work with user stories
  • Understanding quality and acceptance criteria
  • Behaviour Driven Development and Gherkin ssytax
  • “Non-stories” and other solution criteria
  • Prioritisation considerations and techniques
    • MoSCoW
    • Kano

Delivering Value

  • Building a sensible backlog
  • Continuous value delivery
  • Understanding Minimum Viable Product
  • Elaborating stories and getting them ‘Ready’ for delivery
  • Relative estimation
  • Story splitting and sizing
  • Backlog refinement and managing change
  • Feedback and continuous learning 

Pre-requisites

Participants should be familiar with business analysis. An understanding of agile frameworks would be beneficial.

 

Who It's For

This course is for anyone who works with agile requirements, as well as anyone involved in delivering solutions in an agile team. Typical participants include:

  • Business Analysts
  • Product Owners / Product Managers
  • Project / Program Managers
  • Delivery Leads / Systems Analysts
  • Consultants

Speaker

Kathy Berkidge

Agile BA, Coach and Trainer

Mind at Work Consulting

With a background in software development, Kathy is an agile BA professional with over 30 years of experience in I.T. She provides business analysis and agile training and consulting services to many organisations in a variety of industries, as well as speaks internationally on topics relating to agile, mindset and business analysis. Kathy works with teams to improve teamwork, be more innovative and deliver better customer value. She is passionate about seeing people, teams and organisations thrive in an environment of collaboration and harmony. Twitter: @KathyBerkidge

Fees

  • 2 days
  • £895
  • £895 + VAT = £1074 PRICE IF YOU BOOK BY 30TH AUGUST
  • 2 days
  • £995
  • £995 + VAT = £1194 PRICE IF YOU BOOK AFTER 30TH AUGUST
Group Booking Discounts
Delegates
2 - 3 Delegates 10% discount
4 - 5 Delegates 20% discount
6+ Delegates 25% discount
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