Agile Requirements Foundations

Learn how agile impacts the business analyst (BA) role and the requirements discovery process.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you need to know
• Using the exercise files

1. Agile and the Business Analyst

• The business analyst role in agile
• The agile manifesto from a business analyst perspective
• Agile principles 1–4 from a business analyst perspective
• Agile principles 5–8 from a business analyst perspective
• Agile principles 9–12 from a business analyst perspective

2. Agile Point of View

• The business analyst point of view on an agile team
• Key agile mindsets of business analysts
• Increments of value
• Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA)
• Day in the life of an agile business analyst

3. Backlog Management

• A healthy backlog
• Ownership of the backlog
• Level of detail in the backlog
• Refining the backlog
• Analyzing the backlog
• Collaborating with the product owner on the backlog

4. Techniques for Agile Business Analysts

• Product decomposition
• Context techniques
• User stories
• Acceptance criteria
• User story maps
• Story slicing and splitting
• Lightweight modeling

5. Agile Concepts for Business Analysts

• Last responsible moment
• Minimum viable product (MVP)
• Experiments
• Value stream
• Outcome-focused
• Who is the customer?

Conclusion

• Next steps