Agile Business Analyst Boot Camp
Our Agile Business Analysis Boot Camps are designed for current Business Analysts that are working in an Agile team or helping to transform a team into an Agile environment. Our courses provide a practical approach to having Business Analysis and Agile work together effectively.
Explore the role of the Business Analyst on the Agile team and how to effectively work with all Agile and hybrid roles. Dive into the Product Owner role to explore hands-on how this role works within a pure Agile or hybrid team. Learn how to write better user stories and cards, acceptance criteria, ensure minimal viable product, and align to the overall product strategy. Learn exciting new elicitation and collaboration techniques to achieve amazing results. Learn how to use Agile Story Maps to manage the product backlog and stakeholder elicitation.
Boot Camp Length: 3 days
Type: Virtual - This course is virtual using the Zoom platform.
CDU/PDU: Earn 21 CDU/PDU for both IIBA and PMI certification
Prerequisites: Some experience with Business Analysis will be helpful, but it is not required.
What We Cover
Business Analysis in Agile
Where the business analyst fits within Agile teams, regardless of your “flavor of agile”
Why the BA role does not have to be complicated in an Agile world
How to increase your effectiveness as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment
How to elicit and communicate requirements in an Agile environment
Writing user stories
How to develop acceptance criteria
How the story mapping can transform requirements and big ideas into usable stories
How to work with a Product Owner or Business SME to understand stakeholders
Agile Product Owner
Understand the role of the product owner as envisioned for Scrum and various approaches to adapt the role within your organization
Defining Vision: for the product or the project
How a strong product vision will keep the development team on course
How Release Planning is used to make your vision attainable
Where prioritization fits in and why it matters to you and to the team
Writing Better User Stories (Cards)
Stories, Acceptance Criteria… what does it all mean?
Debunk the myths and untangle the confusion around definition of done, definition of ready, and acceptance criteria
Approaches for creating well written stories and acceptance criteria
Understanding Minimum Viable Product and how to ensure it is present in all stories
Ensuring stories are right sized
How stories fit into the backlogs (that’s right, there’s more than one backlog!) and story maps
Agile Elicitation and Collaboration
Identify and understand barriers to analysis within an agile environment and what needs to change
Understanding Minimum Viable Product and how to ensure it is present in all stories
How to make elicitation faster and more productive using elements of gamification
Practice some modern elicitation techniques
Understand where our stakeholder analysis will enhance our work
Agile Story Maps Course
What is a story map?
When & Why to use story maps
How to create a story map
What to do to add details and create context with the map
How story maps help during estimation, refinement, and planning events