Agile Business Analysis (IIBA®-AAC endorsed)

Understand the concept of business agility.

Understand the current state of play on the markets and the importance of experience-first approach

Learn what an Agile extension to the BABOK(r) Guide and Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA(r)-AAC) are

Understand the predictive approach to project planning.

Understand the iterative approach to project planning.

Understand the adaptive approach to project planning.

Understand the benefits of applying agile analysis during adaptive and iterative delivery.

Understand the key principles that guide agile analysis on all levels.

Understand how the principles of agile analysis are aligned to business analysis core concept model.

Learn what is "waste" in organisational context, what are the sources of waste and how to avoid it in analysis.

Learn what the agile manifesto is and how it's principles guide agile business analysis.

Understand the three agile horizons and interconnections between them.

Test what you have learned so far!

Understand the role and expectations of business analysis on strategic horizon.

Understand how to work with business goals on strategic horizon and which factors affect them.

The scenario described in this video will be used as context for all practical lessons to help showcase how different techniques can be applied to a real-life scenario.

Miro is a great tool for remote collaboration and diagramming, which we will be using during this course. See it in action.

Learn how to prepare an aligned vision statement for your product or service.

Learn how to create a value model for your product or service.

Customer journey map is a key tool in understanding the customer's view of the world. Learn how to create one to use it in business analysis.

Using hypotheses is a great way to fight assumptions and uncertainty on strategic horizon. Learn how to do it.

Learn how to visualise a stream of activities required to deliver a product or service.

Learn what an MVP is and how to construct a roadmap beyond it.

Learn how to visualise your work in progress on portfolio level to make it more manageable.

Understand how to apply the principles of agile analysis on the strategy horizon.

Test your knowledge of the strategy horizon.

Feel free to download the course slides.

Understand the role and expectations of business analysis on initiative horizon.

Understand which elements the initiative horizon consists of.

Understand which time frames the initiative horizon operates with.

Knowing your customers is important. Personas are a great way to do it. Learn how.

Stories is probably the most popular way of capturing requirements in agile context. They will be your main tool. Learn what they are and how to use them.

Learn how to organise stories into visual story maps.

Learn a few techniques that may help you decide on relative priority of your stories.

Learn how to estimate the stories an agile way.

Understand how to apply the principles of agile analysis on the initiative horizon.

Test your knowledge of the initiative horizon!

Understand the role and expectations of business analysis on delivery horizon.

Understand which elements the delivery horizon consists of.

Learn how to slice your stories smaller and enrich them with details.

Learn the concepts behind the behaviour driven behaviour.

Learn the formal Gherkin notation that is used in BDD frameworks.

Learn how to document and address the unknowns.

Understand the role of BA in typical agile ceremonies.

Understand how to apply the principles of agile analysis on the initiative horizon.

Wow, you have survived through all the lectures and quizzes! Well done!

This test is as close to the real test as it could be. It consists of 85 questions. To pass this test you need to score at least 70% in under 2 hours. This is a guess though, as IIBA(r) does not reveal the pass score for their exams.

But wait! Before you hit that start button, I strongly recommend you take a pause and read the Agile extension to the BABOK(r) Guide. It has a lot of nuances and details which are important to pass the test. This course should have given you enough to see the logic behind the Agile extension's clauses and understand the connections between the horizons, techniques, and real life. It is however unavoidable to read it if you aim to pass the real exam.

Good luck!

Note, although these questions are based on the Agile extension they are not taken directly from the exam questions bank. Those are kept secret :)

This is a recording from 2020 virtual conference hosted by IIBA Australia Chapter - BA professional week. In the talk, the skills crucial for the digital BA professional are discussed.

This material is not directly derived from the BABOK Guide, but is rather based on industry trends. As such, consider it a bonus video not crucial for passing the CCBA/CBAP or AAC exams.

A transcript and recording of an interview where Igor talks about what makes an excellent BA, how business analysis relates to change management, and what the future of IT projects may look like.