AgileBA ® - Agile Business Analyst Foundation - eLearning (exam included)

AgileBA benefits for individuals

The course provides business analysts involved in Agile projects, large and small, with the tools they need to adopt an agile approach. It provides advice on focus and delivering value and guidance on working with business stakeholders, developers and testers and outlines the skills needed to deliver solutions incrementally. It equips the business analyst with techniques for incorporating Agile approaches into a program and aligning change with organizational goals.

Individuals will gain the following knowledge:

• Knowledge and understanding of AgileBA
• Techniques for Agile Business Analysis
• How to move from traditional to more agile ways of working

AgileBA benefits for organizations

AgileBA provides an organization with a standard approach to executing agile projects because the approach is aligned with AgilePM and AgilePgM. Implementation of AgileBA provides the following benefits:

- Informs Agile and traditional project managers (who often also have business analysis responsibilities) about the content of an Agile project.

• Agile and traditional project managers are briefed on the content of the role of an Agile business analyst.
• Scrum developers will benefit from a better understanding of the role of a business analyst.
• AgileBA fills the gap in the lack of understanding of the Business Analyst due to the lack of defined roles for Scrum developers.
• Product owners will benefit from the Agile development skills provided.

We discover better ways to develop software by doing it and helping others with it. This work has made us value more:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software instead of extensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiations
• Responding to change by following a plan
• That is, although there is value in the items on the right, we place more value on the items on the left.

Origin of Agile

Agile's influence on the project management industry continues to grow rapidly. More and more organizations and project professionals are embracing Agile tools and frameworks to increase the success of -- and return on -- projects, product/software development and other change initiatives. Although they originated in software development, Agile methods and frameworks are becoming increasingly popular in a wide variety of industries and projects as the benefits over more traditional frameworks and methodologies are realized. As organizations and individuals embrace and transition to Agile practices, the roles of key personnel may change significantly, requiring new guidance, concepts and techniques. Prior to AgileBA, there was little detailed guidance that directly addressed the role, responsibilities and skills of the Agile Business Analyst.

Role of the Business Analyst in an Agile World

The role of the Business Analyst is to study the overall business and information needs of an organization to enable solutions to business problems. This may include the following:

• Strategic analysis, modeling strategic themes and drivers
• Business capability modeling - modeling what the business does (conceptual activity models), as opposed to how it does (physical process models)
• Mapping process and value stream (value chain)
• Mapping skills and competencies
• Redefining/re-designing processes
• Data definition and event identification
• Connection between different business and technical disciplines
• Requirements Engineering
• Discovery and definition of cost-effective, valuable solutions for business needs