Description

Agile is the hottest topic in modern business analysis, and organizations of all sizes are adopting its iterative, customer-focused approach to product and system development. However, business analysis in an agile environment requires a completely different approach than those used in waterfall-oriented methods.

In this one-day course, you will learn how to quickly analyze customer and product needs without getting bogged down with extensive documentation and old habits.

Suitability

This course is perfect for Business Analysts, Product Owners, and other agile team members responsible for translating customer needs into valued product outcomes.

Agile

• Why the Hype? What Agile Delivers
• Being Agile: Values and Principles
• Doing Agile: Methods and Frameworks
• Agile vs. Business Analysis

The Agile Team

• The Team
• The Product Owner
• The ScrumMaster
• The Business Analyst Role: Forging an Effective Path

Requirements

• Backlogs
• User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria
• Epics, Features, and Themes
• Other Documentation

Product Strategy

• Products
• Ensuring Alignment with Firm Strategy
• Assessing Customer and Business Value
• Story Mapping

Business Analysis Techniques

• Analysis and Modeling in the Agile Context
• Managing your Agile Process

Don Hussey runs the business analysis training, coaching, and advisory practice, NorwalkAberdeen.

Before starting the firm, he ran the BA Center of Excellence for Citi Private Bank. Before that, he managed a team of BAs at Citi, after being a Business Analyst at Morgan Stanley.

He has spent more than fifteen years doing business analysis, managing BAs, directing teams of BAs, training BAs, coaching BAs, and helping business analysis organizations to be hyper-effective.