Agile Business Analysis Training Course
This programme centres on the business analyst's role to ensure success within Agile projects. Attendees will acquire skills to collaborate effectively with the Development Team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and customers to streamline the development lifecycle. The curriculum includes a simulated project where participants practise handling common industry scenarios.
This course is available as onsite live training in Kenya or online live training.Course Outline
Agile and Scrum Principles
- Objectives and the applicability of Agile/Scrum
- Additional Agile methodologies
- The Scrum framework
- Scrum roles
- The role of the Business Analyst within Scrum
- Key roles and required personality traits
Initiating a Scrum Project
- The initial kick-off meeting
- Estimating milestones
- BA activities specific to Scrum projects
- Exercise: Simulated initial meeting
- Managing the Product Backlog
- Permissions for modifying the Product Backlog
- User Stories, Themes, Epics, and Story Groups
- Exercise: Crafting user stories
- Selecting user stories for inclusion in an iteration
- Emphasizing the delivery of usable functionality within a single iteration
- Practical exercises
The Scrum Process
- BA participation in meetings
- Scrum estimation and planning
- Daily Scrum meetings
- Demonstration or presentation meetings
- Retrospective meetings
- Business Analyst involvement in user acceptance testing
- The roles of Automated Testing, Domain-Driven Design, and other practices
- Managing non-functional requirements
- Practical exercises
Inter-role Relationships
- BA versus Product Owner
- BA versus Scrum Master
- BA collaboration with team members
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