BCS Professional Certificate in Agile Business Analysis

Professional Course on Concepts, Practices, Techniques and Tools in Agile Business Analysis Select Course Date and Time Based on Your Convenience!

GBP
250

Instructor-led, Online

Duration: 16 Hours

Course Code: TXV-BCS-ABA3

Skill Level: Intermediate

BCS Professional Certificate in Agile Business Analysis

Overview

In an age of rapid changes in business trends, technologies and lifestyles, organisations and individuals must be adaptive and business analysis professionals are not an exception. The modern day, agile business analysts are open to change and pro-actively understand the impact of changes on business, technology, products and people. They work with senior leadership teams and also technical teams, customers and end-users with as much ease. Agile BAs write user stories, plan releases and prioritise features alongside product owners, create wireframes and mockups, model problems and solutions, validate, test the functionality and do a lot more. Take the TEXAVI Course on BCS Professional Certificate in Agile Business Analysis to learn the concepts, principles, techniques and tools necessary to succeed in the digital, mobile, agile and social times!

Who can attend?

Anybody with or without work experience

IT professionals (eg., Developers, testers) considering a move to BA role

Non-IT people who want to learn IT skills thinking of a career switch

Graduates and university students who aspire to get into IT industry

Students who have just passed their B. Tec, A-Levels or college studies

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: The Context of Agile Philosophy

Module 2: Agile Principles and Practices

Module 3: Popular Agile Methodologies

Module 4: Role of Business Analyst in Agile

Module 5: Strategic Analysis and Product Management

Module 6: Working with Stakeholders in Agile

Module 7: Creating and Managing Requirements in Agile

Module 8: Agile Modelling and Decomposition

Module 9: Managing Product, Release and Iteration Backlogs

Module 10: Estimation in Agile

Module 11: Planning and Prioritisation

Module 12: Agile Best Practices and Techniques for BAs

What will you learn?

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Describe the philosophy underpinning the agile approaches

List the several use cases and contexts for applying agile methodologies

Explain the importance of agile development in managing changes

Apply the following agile core values while implementing an agile methodology

Collaboration between business and development team

Agility through excellence

Engaging conversations

Empowering the team

Continuous delivery

Embrace changes

Working product

Timeboxing

Constant pace

Self-organising teams

Minimalism approach

Introspection and retrospective

State the agile manifesto and explain the core agile values from the manifesto

Identify at a very hight level, the twelve core principles in agile methods

Explain the evolution of different agile methods and their suitability for different contexts

Scrum

Lean

Extreme Programming

Kanban

SAFe

Elaborate on the key features and practices of Scrum

Discuss why Sprint is the spirit of Scrum

Describe the various Scrum ceremonies and events

Discuss the application of agile in the wider business context

Discuss scaled methods v. product development methods

Describe a range of agile methods (process, roles, principles)

State the role of business analyst in an agile team

Evaluate the applicability of an agile method for a given situation

List the roles and their responsibilities in agile projects

Discuss the key responsibilities, activities and artefacts of agile BA

Identify the various stakeholders in an agile context

Categorise the stakeholders identified into one of the following categories:

Business stakeholders

Project stakeholders

Technical stakeholders

Development stakeholders

Explain how planning works in agile

Apply ‘timeboxing’ concept while planning in an agile project

Product vision –> product roadmap

Product backlog –> Release backlog –> Sprint backlog

Backlog grooming, story refinement

Apply the STOp tool to conduct planning in agile

Talk about the different factors that affect estimation

Explain the inputs and outputs for estimation

List the different approaches to perform estimation in software development

Identify some of the popular estimation methods in agile projects

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

Use Case Point (UCP)

Story point estimation (SP)

Describe the best practices in agile estimation:

Scoping in and scoping out

Using team’s productivity effectively

Using relative estimation

Tee-shirt sizing technique

Elaborate on the steps to perform prioritisation:

Estimate

Prioritise

Develop

Evaluate

List and discuss the popular prioritisation methods in agile projects

MoSCoW model

Importance vs urgency matrix

POLDAT Technique

Describe the following agile techniques and tools, highlighting their applications:

MoSCoW technique

Kano’s model

Prioritisation slider

Elucidate the use of prioritisation in agile deliverables:

Product backlog

Release backlog

Iteration/spring backlog

Epics and themes

Stories, tasks and sub-tasks

Elaborate on release management approaches:

Major releases

Minor releases

Patches

Fixes

Discuss the functional model map

Illustrate the use of agile analysis, modelling and documentation techniques

Analyse business goals and their decomposition

Identify and document user roles

Define user story and discuss the application of the user stories

Describe the steps in writing good user stories

Elaborate on INVEST principle and its use in validating and verifying stories

Discuss acceptance criteria and their importance in agile projects

Apply the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycle for continuous improvement

Describe the agile toolkit aka DMAIC and the steps involved:

Define – State the problem

Measure – Set baselines

Analyse – Go to the root

Improve – Identify the steps

Control – Assess the results

Explain Definition of Done (DoD) using the criteria and conditions

Elaborate on the Definition of Ready (DoR) using the development ready statuses

List the inputs, activities, outputs and roles involved in following Scrum events:

Daily Scrum

Sprint planning

Sprint execution

Sprint review

Sprint retrospective

Describe the best practices and techniques adopted by agile teams and how that’s relevant to agile business analysts:

Continuous development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

MoSCoW prioritisation

Planning Poker and Tee-shirt sizing estimation

Kanban team board

BDD acceptance criteria aka Cucumber/Gherkin statements

What do you need?

There are no pre-requisites for this course. There is no need for any prior experience, working knowledge or awareness of software development or projects experience. The course is suitable for experienced professionals working in the industry or academia, aspirants and early stage professionals, as well as students in universities and colleges. Professionals and aspirants from technology, business, operations or sales are all welcome to explore and understand the agile methodologies alongside their concepts and principles.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

24×7 access to TEXAVI’s high quality course content

Practical insights from real life IT projects

Course completion certificate

Case studies, examples and illustrations

Interactive quizzes and challenges

Job aids, resources and tools

Access to TEXAVI’s collaborative digital platform

Why Texavi?

TEXAVI is a proven leader in delivering non-coding IT learning, worldwide

We are not just trainers, but practising IT professionals with 25+ years of work exp

Our courses get you job-ready with practical and real-time insights

Qualify for certificates upon completion and complete our assessments

Pave way for industry-recognised certifications

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Trainer Profile

Your trainer for this course is Pardha Saradhi Mantravadi. Pardha is a seasoned and well-qualified trainer, coach, mentor, influencer and thought leader. He has rich and varied IT-industry experience of 25 years, working in working in different roles as a Business Analysis professional with blue-chip organisations viz., HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Dyson, Asda, Cambridge University Press, Roche, King’s College London , Royal Society of Chemistry etc. Pardha delivers his training sessions by blending the concepts and principles with practical insights from real-life projects and programs…click here to view the complete trainer profile

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