In today's fast-paced business environment, the demand for accurate requirements is constant, yet time always seems scarce. With organizations operating lean and knowledge fragmented across silos, gaining consensus from diverse subject matter experts can be daunting. Sound familiar?

Inteq's Agile Business Analysis training course transcends established methodology; it offers a strategic approach for achieving successful, responsive, customer-centric outcomes – your blueprint for requirements management success.

Across an immersive two days, you and your team will acquire the skills, knowledge, and best practices to:

Accelerate Deliverables: Agile methods facilitate small, rapid incremental releases, expediting review and iteration cycles.
Enhance Quality: Identify and correct issues early, avoiding major problems down the line through better collaboration and ongoing feedback.
Maximize Resource Efficiency: With a focus on value, Agile ensures smart, efficient allocation and utilization of resources (time, talent, budget) to deliver tangible value.

Agile Business Analysis harnesses best-practice skills, methods, and techniques gleaned from numerous analysis projects, and is aligned with the Agile Extension to the IIBA BABOK® Guide. It's more than training; it's your toolkit and roadmap to mastering Agile Business Analysis.

Course Outline

Introduction And Foundation

What is agile analysis?

The business case for agile analysis

Agile analysis myths and misconceptions

Framework and roadmap for agile analysis

Ensuring Readiness For Agile Analysis

Analyzing your business space from 360°

Agile analysis deliverables

Analyzing customer and business value

SME and stakeholder analysis

Business domain pre-analysis

Getting The User Story "Right"

Essential elements of a user story

User story artifacts and documentation

Getting just-enough just-in-time

Creating user stories from use case scenarios

Distilling actionable INVEST items from user stories

Defining customer acceptance criteria

Managing The Moving Parts

Priorities vs. dependencies

Balancing business value with time, talent, quality, risk and budget

Managing backlogs, kanbans and queues

Scrums & sprints – planning, roles & execution

Dealing with difficult personalities

Managing scope and expectations

Agile Analysis - Case Study

Participants develop a set of user stories to support a complex set of real-world business and system requirements. This case study provides an invaluable template that participants can leverage to jump-start agile analysis in their organization.

Discovering Business Knowledge

Light & deep vs. superficial discovery

Professional analysis vs. order taking

Key sources of business knowledge

Business knowledge elicitation techniques

Managing scope and expectations

Essential Facilitation Skills

The dynamics of workshops / facilitated sessions

Identifying and organizing the right participants

Facilitation technique best practices

Capturing and validating session knowledge

Learning Objectives | You Will Learn | Key Benefits

Professional-level agile business analysis techniques and methods.
When where and how to apply agile business analysis.
Rapidly discover deep business knowledge.
Improve the speed and quality of analysis.
Assess the business value of deliverables to optimize the allocation of analysis resources.
Best practices in working with subject matter experts (SMEs) and other stakeholders.
Create clear concise user stories from use cases,
Seamlessly apply agile analysis to any requirements project.
Discover how to accelerate deliverables with small, rapid releases.
Learn how to identify and correct issues early, preventing major problems down the line.
Strategies for gaining consensus among diverse subject matter experts.
Apply flexibility and adaptability to changing requirements.
Equip yourself with the toolkit and roadmap for navigating agile analysis.

Who Should Attend?

Business analysts
Business systems analysts
Business subject matter experts
Project managers
IT professionals and subject matter experts leading or facilitating agile business analysis
Anyone participating in agile business analysis in their organization

Prerequisites:

None. Business System Analysis is designed as a precursor, but not a prerequisite (depending on the participant's background and experience.)

Inteq's Agile Business Analysis training integrates seamlessly with:

Learning Options:

Anytime eLearning™: Anytime | Anywhere | Any Device | Self-Paced
Live: Inteq’s Agile Business Analysis 2-day training course can be tailored to your organization’s training objectives and can be combined with other Inteq courses to create a 3, 4 and 5-day hybrid training program.
Enterprise training for the entire organization.

What’s In the box?

OK, there is not a box per se - the content is digital. In addition to 2-days/16 hours of expert instruction you receive:

Digital Badge of Completion
Personalized Certificate of Completion
ACCET Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
IIBA Professional Development Units (PDUs)
Electronic (PDF) Comprehensive 150 Page Course Manual
Case Study Materials
Supplemental Course Materials

Course Length:

The course is designed for two days, but Anytime eLearning™ allows self-paced learning.
Participants can revisit material to reinforce concepts.
The course must be completed within 45 days, with most participants finishing in 1-3 weeks.