Agile Business Analysis

This 2-day Agile Business Analysis training course addresses the common problem that most Agile approaches tend to focus on product delivery, while assuming that a prioritised “backlog” of product features is readily available to drive development activities.

However, Agile can be rather vague about how the product backlog is initially populated with features.

This has led to uncertainty about the role of business analysis in the Agile world. It is clear that the traditional specification-driven approach to business analysis is not compatible with Agile but many teams struggle to find a replacement.

This course addresses one of the least understood aspects of agile by teaching a comprehensive set of “discovery” techniques that complement the Agile “delivery” approaches.

At the end of the course, participants will have a clear understanding of the role of a Business Analyst in an Agile team.

Course Features:

• Incorporates the IIBA’s agile framework as described in the Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide.
• The centre piece of the course is the Agile Discovery Canvas which provides a simple, collaborative tool for guiding agile business analysis.
• The course is suitable for organisations considering adopting agile techniques, business analysts joining an agile team for the first time and existing agile team members.
• Taught by a certified Scrum Master.
• Shows how business analysis can be added to Scrum without creating a “Scrum-But”.
• Emphasises a collaborative approach to business analysis.
• Requires no prior knowledge of Scrum or agile techniques.