Overview
Audience
Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Technical Analysts, User Experience Professionals
Duration
3 days
Pre-requisite
Agile Fundamentals
Objectives
- Understand the Agile Analyst role and its responsibilities to an agile team
- Learn effective methods for requirements gathering and elaboration in an agile context
- Obtain an understanding of how to author quality user stories and related artifacts throughout the various phases of an agile project
- Understand the analysis process during development iterations
- Appreciate the growing role of User Experience in agile analysis practices
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introduction of trainers and participants
- Hopes & Fears exercise
- Learning objectives
- Intended audience
- Agile is/Agile is not illustration
- Agile best practices review
Introduction to Agile Analysis
- What are your goals as an analyst? Independent of agile.
- What are some of your current pain points?
- A discussion of choices that can be made based on the adoption of practices or not
- Responsibilities & accountabilities of a BA on an agile project
- Agile analysis lifecycle discussion: problem identification through iteration analysis
- Agile artifacts created throughout the lifecycle and when
- Agile In Basket exercise
Project vision & Business Objectives
- Shared understanding
- Defining the problem case
- Project vision
- Tying back to business objectives
- Project sliders
- How to represent high level scope
- Identifying project challenges
- Models and phases
Understanding the Business Domain
- Story elicitation
- User roles and goals
- Process models
- Personas
- Scenarios and User journeys
- Prototypes
Requirements (aka Stories)
- Story, Iteration, Release
- The parts of a story card
- Story format
- Role, Goal, Value concepts
- INVEST principle
- Story anti-patterns
- Other story writing guidelines
- Inception level acceptance criteria
- Assumptions
- Non-functional requirements
- Themes, Epics, Stories
Estimation & Release Planning
- Representing stories
- Analyst role in estimation
- Analysis risk factors - understanding Complexity, Completeness and Volatility
- Methods to prioritize stories
- How to plan BA capacity for a release
Iteration Level Analysis
- Review of Inception level artifacts
- Anatomy of an iteration
- Analyst role during an iteration
- Narratives or other elaboration artifacts
- Iteration level acceptance criteria
- Showcases
- Showing progress
Analysis Challenges
- Splitting stories
- New stories
- Avoiding story explosion
- Managing story analysis
- Last responsible moment
Advanced Topics
- The role of user experience in agile analysis
- Analysis in distributed projects
