Bascom Bridge’s Agile Business Analysis training teaches attendees how to serve as analysts on Agile projects.
AGILE TRAINING OBJECTIVES
Identify the key practices of Agile analysis and ways to make requirements practices ‘lean’
Understand the value of a product roadmap and release planning for large, complex products
Describe how Agile methods differ from traditional development
Define the key principles, practices, and processes of Agile development
Identify the roles people play in an Agile project
Define and analyze Agile requirements
AGILE TRAINING PREREQUISITES
It is recommended that participants have experience working on Agile teams or have prior Agile training. However, we would be delighted to tailor it to any level of prior experience.
AGILE TRAINING MATERIALS
All attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
SOFTWARE NEEDED FOR EACH PC:
No software is required. Students should be seated in pods of 3 or 4, with a notebook and pen for each student. Each pod should have a flipchart with multiple colors of markers. The instructor will require connectivity for her/his laptop to a projection system and Internet.
AGILE TRAINING OUTLINE
Introduction to Agile Development
Agile Overview
The Agile Potential
The Agile Manifesto
Agile Alone is NOT Enough
Can Agile fail?
THE Best Agile
Self-Organized Teams
The Business Analyst Role In Agile
Business Analysis in Agile Projects
Multiple Levels of Planning
The “Ever Unfolding Story”
Progressive Requirements Elaboration
How to do Requirements Driven Agile
Requirements as the Basis for Agile Backlog
How Agile Methods Impact Requirements Risks
Agile Business Analysis: Product View
Agile’s Big View
Working with Your Product Owner
Product Vision
Product Roadmapping
Keeping Your Eye on Requirements
Agile Business Analysis: Release Planning
Release planning
User stories, epics, and sagas
Quality attributes and interfaces
Grooming the backlog
Agile Business Analysis: Sprints and Iterations
Use Cases in Agile
Actors and Roles
Understanding User Stories
Comparing and Contrasting User Stories and Use Cases
Right Sizing User Stories (just enough detail and no more)
It is recommended that participants have experience working on Agile teams or have prior Agile training. However, we would be delighted to tailor it to any level of prior experience.