About
Introduction:
In today's fast-paced, fiercely competitive world of new product development, speed and flexibility are essential for Agile business analysis. Companies are increasingly realizing that the old sequential approach to developing new products simply won't get the job done. This Agile business analyst training provides the skills to drive product development with more productive and advanced Agile methodologies
You Will Learn How To:
- Establish the Product Owner role in Scrum teams by harnessing the experience of senior personnel to become a better Agile business analyst
- Create a Business Value Model to better understand requirements
- Quantify cost/benefit analysis to create a rational build order
- Create a Release Train using Minimal Marketable Features (MMFs)
- Measure and report project progress to various stakeholders.
Workshop Activities Include:
- Defining the "Definition of Done"
- Performing an Envisioning Workshop
- Writing valuable Agile User Stories
- Specifying by example
- Developing a Release Train
- Implementing Communities of Practice
Who Should Attend
Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, System Analysts, Program Managers, Project Managers and anyone interested in Agile business analysi
Course Content
Agile and Scrum for the Business Analyst: Overview
- Analyzing Agile values and principles
- Identifying Scrum roles
- Determining Scrum ceremonies
- Assessing Scrum artifacts
Introducing the Role of the Product Owner in Scrum
Dissecting the responsibilities of the Product Owner
- Working with Returns on Investments (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Managing the Product Backlog
- Evaluating value in order to determine the release schedule
Establishing Sprint focus
- Separating the Product Backlog from Sprint Backlog
- Prioritizing Product Backlog Items (PBI)
- Aborting the Sprint
- Managing cadence within the Sprint
- Driving a consensus for "Definition of Done"
Shaping the View of the Product Owner for a Specific Effort
Developing teams
- Collaborating with a single team
- Scaling to a multi-team environment
Identifying stakeholders
- Recognizing stakeholders as customers
- Managing the expectations of stakeholders
Analyzing the Business Value Model
Comparing stakeholders
- Distinguishing customers from other stakeholders
- Choosing the appropriate value
- Differentiating between stakeholder engagement and stakeholder management
Adhering to the Agile Process
- Chartering the project
- Facilitating release planning meetings
- Eliciting and analyzing requirements
- Enabling requirements clarification
- Specifying Stories by example
Determining the Build Order
Increasing value with new techniques
- Contrasting PBI build order with "critical path"
- Comparing with GANTT and PERT charts
Synthesizing the PBI hierarchy
- Categorizing each item as a Story, Epic or Minimal Marketable Feature (MMF)
- Decomposing MMFs into Stories and Epics
- Gauging the build order volatility
Building the Release Train
Analyzing cost
- Quantifying the cost/benefit analysis at the Epic level
- Applying Agile Earned Value Management (EVM)
Managing expectations with Minimal Market Features
- Creating the precedence graph
- Counting architectural elements as costs
- Dealing with Technical Debt
- Growing business value with MMFs
Reporting Project Status
Communicating with stakeholders
- Implementing information radiators
- Delivering value
- Projecting team build rate
Facilitating ceremonies
- Illustrating burndowns and estimates
- Managing Scrum project planning, tracking and rates of execution (velocity)
Driving Organizational Change with Agile Business Analysis Methodologies
Applying continuous improvement
- Synchronizing multiple teams
- Evolving the Definition of Done
- Reducing documents to be "barely sufficient"
Involving external resources
- Creating Communities of Practice
- Empowering the Project Management Office (PMO) as a change agency
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
