About this course
HOW DO YOU COMBINE BUSINESS ANALYSIS SKILLS WITH AGILE APPROACHES AND PRACTICES?
Agile delivery teams need skilled business analysts that can bridge the gap between eliciting business requirements and just in time elaboration and collaboration.
Our Agile Business Analysis course will provide you with the techniques and tools to become an effective Business Analyst equipped to support value delivery teams. This course focuses on how to deliver business value and ensure product fit demonstrating practices that work in an agile development process. You will leave with the required tools and approaches that will enable collaboration with teams and stakeholders to identify the most important aspects and features of a product or initiative.
What you will gain
The ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Product Ownership (ICP-APO) certification is granted on the successful completion of this course. This certification is part of the ICAgile Product Management Track along with our Product Management course.
This course will contribute 14 PMI® professional development units (PDUs) towards your chosen certification (4 Power Skills and 10 Ways of Working).
What you will learn
- The skills and behaviours for Business Analysis and Product Ownership including developing relationships, making value-based decisions and creating shared understanding.
- The importance of starting with why and identifying value.
- Product discovery and planning techniques including understanding the customer, design thinking and product roadmaps.
- How to support the launching and landing of products and assess value delivered.
What you need
To get the most out of this course, it is recommended that participants have a foundational knowledge of agility through formal training like our Agile Fundamentals course and have at least 6 months of experience working in an agile team.
This course builds on your existing knowledge of business analysis. If you are new to business analysis or want to learn how to perform core business analysis activities, we suggest you attend our Business Analysis Fundamentals course.
This course is great for
- Business Analysts, who want to build their skills in relation to product and value delivery to support Agile teams
- Subject Matter Experts, Product Champions and team members who are interested in becoming or supporting the Business Analyst or Product Owner role
- Anyone interested in seeking a better understanding of product concepts and practices and maximizing value
Topics Covered
Product Ownership & Business Analysis Defined
- Value Focused Delivery Team
- Role Scope
Product Vision & Value
- Linking Strategy to Delivery
- Start with Why
- Stakeholders & Customers
- Initiative Canvas
- Opportunity Pitch
- Understanding & Identifying Value
- Success Tradeoff Sliders
Discovery: Defining Products
- Facilitating Continuous Collaboration
- Design Thinking
- Understand the Customer
- Ideation
- Prototypes
- Experiments & Metrics
Product Planning & Roadmaps
- Building a Roadmap
Product Backlog & Prioritisation
- Qualitative & Quantitative Prioritisation
- Minimum Viable Product
- User Story Mapping
- Splitting Work
- Agile Risk Management
Deliver & Operate: Launch & Land Products
- Elaboration with Examples
- Communications Roadmap
- Assessing Value Delivered
- Definition of Done
- Capturing Customer Feedback SoftEd
