
Gain a stress-free footing as an agile business analyst by mastering core agile concepts, values, principles, and roles. Explore lightweight agile requirements and time management across days, weeks, and releases.
Discover how agile centers on people and collaboration to deliver valuable software early, embrace changing requirements, and prioritize customer collaboration over contract negotiation and sustainable development.
Discover how agile values and principles translate into action through Scrum, the widely used methodology with defined roles, sprints, backlogs, and lightweight ceremonies that deliver a shippable product.
Learn how Scrum teams organize work around team members, product owners, and Scrum masters, with dedicated product ownership, backlog management, sprint scope, and t-shaped skills.
Explore three common agile business analyst roles, from team member elaborating user stories and acceptance criteria to guiding product owners or acting as a proxy, with challenges and growth paths.
Learn to write lean, testable user stories that drive agile requirements, maintain a prioritized product backlog, and guide conversations between product owners and teams.
Define acceptance criteria as the closest written requirement in agile, guiding unit tests and the definition of done. Use formats like boolean statements and given-when-then.
Explore how epics represent high-level business needs and learn to break them into smaller user stories through story splitting and decomposition, including functional, process, and structural approaches.
Explore how agile backlogs use product backlog items, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint backlog, with story points and velocity to plan sprints.
Learn how to build a story map from scratch to organize product and sprint backlogs by function and priority, guiding sprint planning and release decisions with velocity and story points.
Explore the time dimension of agile business analysis, including sprints and releases, and learn a typical day from daily scrum to backlog and user stories.
Explains how sprints in agile scrum run for 1–4 weeks with fixed scope, covering analysis, development, and testing to deliver working software, and outlines three sprint meetings—planning, review, and retrospective.
Explore how agile teams manage releases, from pilot and beta releases to wide releases. Assess quality, technical impact, and business considerations, plan communications and training, and execute releases within sprints.
Compare waterfall and agile approaches to project completion by weighing marginal benefit and opportunity cost. Decide when to close out, reallocate resources, and center next steps on value.
Learn to use Jira to manage agile projects by creating epics, user stories, and a backlog. Track sprint progress with velocity, story points, and a burndown chart on a storyboard.
Engage with continual development and ongoing customer interaction through this agile business analysis course. Share your feedback to shape releases and connect with us on social channels, blogs, the Journal.
Business Analysts have a wide range of feelings about Agile.
Some love it. It’s a fast and nimble way to develop products, and you can be very productive in relatively little time.
Others hate it, because it is radically different from traditional control-oriented project approaches, and they struggle to understand their value and role when documentation takes a back seat.
And many others like the idea of Agile, but realize that it’s a tricky thing to get right – especially with very large organizations which have documentation and processes deeply engrained in their cultures.
If any of these statements sounds familiar, we designed this course for you.
There is a lot of training out there for agile teams, but agile BAs have very specific needs that haven’t been addressed… (until now)
That’s why we developed this course – to give you a basis on which to build an excellent BA career in any agile environment.
In this clear, concise, and easy-to-follow course, you will learn:
… all while learning the ropes from a seasoned expert and business analysis executive.
By the end of the course, you’ll have more than just knowledge… You’ll have the practice and practical experience you need to feel confident on the job.