AgileBA Foundation & Practitioner Certification Training

AgileBA Foundation & Practitioner Certification

APMG Certified Course

Agile Business Analysts are an integrated part of the Agile team, working before projects and programmes are defined, and throughout the life of the project. They facilitate collaboration within teams and across the business. In addition to their skills of modelling and specification, the Agile Business Analyst requires new skills to support collaboration, facilitation and iterative working. They must adapt to new ways of gathering, analysing and managing the emerging and evolving requirements.

AgileBA Foundation & Practitioner Certification Objectives

Understand the difference between traditional and Agile business analysis
Recognise how an Agile Business Case differs from a traditional business case and present a lean business canvas
Identify stakeholders personas and their involvement in Agile
Learn how modelling techniques fit into an Agile environment
Describe the competencies and techniques of an Agile BA
Understand the importance of Facilitated Workshops
Understand the BA role in the Agile team and the organisation
Understand the different ways of working as a BA in Agile
Capture and manage effective requirements for incremental solution delivery

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AgileBA Foundation & Practitioner Certification Training Information

Course timing: 09:00 - 17:00

Who is this course suitable for?
Those who are likely to be involved in the management of Agile projects and programmes, including:

Project Board and Project Steering Representatives
Project Management Office Personnel
Business Analysts
Quality Assurance and Quality Control Managers
Project Managers
Team Leaders
What about exams and certifications?
Delegates sit a 40 minute multiple choice Foundation paper on the third day and on passing this are eligible to sit the 2.5 hour Practitioner Complex Multiple Choice exam on the fourth day. Successful candidates are awarded both an APMG Foundation Certificate and APMG Practitioner Certificate in Agile BA.

Are there any prerequisites for this course?
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
AgileBA Foundation & Practitioner Certification Training Delivery Method

Live Instructor Led Virtual Course
AgileBA Foundation & Practitioner Certification Outline

The Holistic View of the Business

The Agile BA role in relation to mission and objectives
How to analyse the business environment
Measuring the success of implementing change

The Agile Landscape

What is Agile? Approaches and frameworks
Why is Agile needed?
Role and responsibilities of the Agile BA and Agile team

Stakeholders

Stakeholder types / personas
RACI and RASCI in Agile
Empowerment of Stakeholders in an Agile project

Dealing with Requirements

The Agile approach to requirements
User Stories, Epics, Acceptance Criteria
The Agile Business Analyst’s link to quality and testing
The Agile Requirements Life Cycle
Checking completeness

The Agile Business Case

Strategic and project business cases
Understanding the business problem
As Is, To Be, Abstraction
Gap Analysis and Value Streams

Facilitated Workshops

The role of Facilitation in Agile
How to organise and run a Facilitated Workshop

Prioritisation

Combining and prioritising requirements
Customer perception and expectation

Modelling and prototyping

6 perspectives for modelling
Tacit information
Reasons and perspectives for prototyping

Working in a timebox

Timebox structure and iterative development