Learning Objectives

The Agile Business Analyst Practitioner level qualification aims to measure whether the candidate has sufficient knowledge and understanding of the AgileBA guidance to apply and tailor it to a given scenario situation.

The Agile Business Analyst Practitioner course builds on the Agile Business Analyst Foundation course, providing additional depth of understanding. This is achieved through a review of Foundation material, consolidation of concepts and sample exam questions for the Practitioner level certification. This course fully prepares candidates for the AgileBA Practitioner certification exam.

The courses explore the following content, with the Practitioner level considering the application of the method to a given scenario:

• Agile and the DSDM Agile Project Framework – The agile mindset. The DSDM approach, philosophy and principles. Overview of the DSDM process, roles and products.
• Strategy analysis – Gaining a holistic view of the business environment using internal and external analysis. Capturing a clear picture of the value an organisation creates through value chain analysis and Lean thinking. Identifying and measuring the impact of implementing organisational strategies. The agile business case.
• Stakeholder collaboration – Working effectively with different stakeholders throughout the DSDM process. Analysing stakeholders. The Agile BA’s role in communication planning. Collaborating effectively using facilitated workshops.
• Managing requirements – Working with requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and story maps. The DSDM approach to managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle. The Agile BA’s role. The lifecycle of a requirement. Requirements elicitation models. Estimating requirements in a DSDM project.
• Delivering on time – Exploration of key practices to deliver on time: prioritising requirements, timeboxing and iterative development. Common prioritisation techniques. Activities conducted in timeboxes and useful collaboration techniques such as stand-ups and burn charts. Approaches to iterative development.
• Modelling and mapping – Modelling perspectives. Modelling techniques for the Agile BA including business domain models and wireframes.

This training course will introduce an Agile approach that has a significant impact on the role of the Business Analyst, on their existing skills and their way of working. Whilst traditional skills are still valuable, new skills and ways of working need to be adopted to harness the benefits of a new way of working and to appreciate the different relationships with co-workers.