AgileBA® - Agile Business Analyst Foundation - Online Classroom (exam included)

AgileBA® - Agile Business Analyst Foundation - Online Classroom (exam included)

Learn to be an effective business analyst on an agile project team!

This 3-day Agile Business Analyst Foundation training provides an introduction to the best practices and approaches of Agile Business Analysis. By the end of the course, participants will have in-depth knowledge of Agile principles and know how to deliver valuable solutions in their collaboration with stakeholders. This course encourages Business Analysts to implement the Agile framework in their systems. The Agile Business Analyst (AgileBA) certification demonstrates that you have the skills to be an effective business analyst working on an agile project team.

About the course

Develop the skills needed to become a competent Agile business analyst. By the end of the Foundation qualification, you should have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the Agile Business Analysis guidelines to be able to recognize and distinguish the key elements of the approach. Adopt and apply guidelines from the Agile Business Consortium. Introducing an Agile approach has a significant impact on the Business Analyst's role, on their existing skills and their way of working. AgileBA training and certification is based on the AgileBA Handbook, published by the Agile Business Consortium. The Handbook provides useful, practical and comprehensive guidance on the role of the Business Analyst working in an Agile manner.

Learning Objectives

Manage the role of a Business Analyst in an Agile environment. By the end of this course, you will understand key principles and terminology within Agile business analysis guidelines. Specific:

• The underlying philosophy and principles of Agile
• The processes within an Agile project, including alternative configurations
• The products produced during an Agile project and their purpose
• The people within an Agile project
• The practices used in an Agile project and their advantages and limitations
• The roles and responsibilities within an Agile project.

What will be covered?

This course includes the following modules:

• Introduction & overview
• The role of an Agile BA in an agile world
• Agile fundamentals
• Stakeholders in an agile project
• Requirements, user stories and prioritization
• Workshops
• Modeling and prototyping
• Timeboxing and iterative development
• Estimate requirements

Accredited AGILEBA® training and certification will help people to:

• Apply the underlying philosophy, principles and processes of AgileBA in a project situation
• Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing and prioritizing requirements
• Produce and evaluate the content of BA products during an Agile project
• Identify and apply popular Agile techniques in a project situation, including MoSCoW prioritization, iterative development and timeboxing
• Understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile project and the different levels of authority regarding requirements and the business case
• Understand the mechanisms for facilitation and support within an Agile project
• Understand how to test, estimate and evaluate benefit delivery in an Agile project

AGILEBA® Foundation course details

• 3-day accredited course with an authorized AgileBA® trainer
• Work Format: Multimedia presentations, group exercises and discussions, practical workshops, case studies and practice exams.
• Licensed course material in pdf format and examples of documents/templates
• AgileBA® Foundation certificate of completion
• Exam voucher for the AgileBA® Foundation accredited exam

The exam is included with this classroom course and is available online through a remote invigilator.

Exam

• 50 Multiple-choice questions per section
• 25/50 correct questions to pass
• 40 minutes
• Closed book

Learn more about AgileBA

The Agile Manifesto

We discover better ways to develop software by doing it and helping others with it. This work has made us value more:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software instead of extensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiations
• Responding to change over following a plan
• That is, although there is value in the items on the right, we place more value on the items on the left.

Origin of Agile

Agile's influence on the project management industry continues to grow rapidly. More and more organizations and project professionals are embracing Agile tools and frameworks to increase the success of -- and return on -- projects, product/software development and other change initiatives. Although they originated in software development, Agile methods and frameworks are becoming increasingly popular in a wide variety of industries and projects as the benefits over more traditional frameworks and methodologies are realized. As organizations and individuals embrace and transition to Agile practices, the roles of key personnel may change significantly, requiring new guidance, concepts and techniques. Prior to AgileBA, there was little detailed guidance that directly addressed the role, responsibilities and skills of the Agile Business Analyst.

Role of the Business Analyst in an Agile World

The role of the Business Analyst is to study the overall business and information needs of an organization to enable solutions to business problems.

This may include the following:

• Strategic analysis, modeling strategic themes and drivers
• Business capability modeling - modeling what the business does (conceptual
• activity models), as opposed to how it does (physical process models)
• Mapping process and value stream (value chain)
• Mapping skills and competencies
• Redefining/re-designing processes
• Data definition and event identification
• Connection between different business and technical disciplines
• Requirements Engineering
• Discovery and definition of cost-effective, valuable solutions for business needs

Why AgileBA?

Introducing an Agile approach has a significant impact on the role of the Business Analyst, on their existing skills and their way of working. While traditional skills are still valuable, new skills and ways of working must be adopted to reap the benefits of a new way of working and appreciate the different relationships with colleagues. There is increasing evidence that an Agile approach is an effective way of working in projects.

Key features:

• The collaboration and involvement of people with the right skills, including those of the customer and end users of the product we make
• An incremental approach that delivers value early and regularly
• The acceptance that we cannot know all the details at the outset, and that we will inevitably learn more as the work progresses
• Defining fine details only just before we need them, to avoid the waste of trying to predict them too early
• Empowering people at appropriate levels to make decisions about details.

AgileBA benefits for individuals

The course provides business analysts involved in Agile projects, large and small, with the tools they need to adopt an agile approach. It provides advice on focus and delivering value and guidance on working with business stakeholders, developers and testers and outlines the skills needed to deliver solutions incrementally. It equips the business analyst with techniques for incorporating Agile approaches into a program and aligning change with organizational goals.

Individuals will gain the following knowledge:

• Knowledge and understanding of AgileBA
• Techniques for Agile Business Analysis
• How to move from traditional to more agile ways of working

AgileBA - benefits for organizations

AgileBA provides an organization with a standard approach to executing agile projects because the approach is aligned with AgilePM and AgilePgM. Implementation of AgileBA provides the following benefits:

• Informs Agile and traditional project managers (who often also have business analysis responsibilities) about the content of an Agile project.
• Agile and traditional project managers are briefed on the content of the role of an Agile business analyst.
• Scrum developers will benefit from a better understanding of the role of business analyst.
• AgileBA fills the gap in the lack of understanding of the Business Analyst due to the lack of defined roles for Scrum developers.
• Product owners will benefit from the Agile development skills provided.