What Will I Learn?

Understand how lean principles affect business analysis and the requirements definition process
Explain what lean requirements such as Features, User Stories, Epics, Scenarios, etc. look like in a lean and agile world
Apply lean principles to known business analysis techniques

Requirements

No tools or knowledge required
Interest in Business Analysis for Information Technology (IT) and Software Requirements Definition / Analysis

Description

Take the Path to LEAN Business Analysis (as it relates to Information Technology)

In today’s world, you and your organization must be responsive, flexible, and make things happen quickly. You must do more with less – and faster. You no longer have business as usual, so why do business analysis as usual?

With the widespread adoption of Agile, software development has gone through some serious remodeling. Agile teams build robust products incrementally and iteratively, requiring fast feedback from the business community to define ongoing work. As a result, the process of defining IT requirements is evolving rapidly. Backlogs replace requirements definition documents. User Stories, Epics and Features replace requirement statements. Scenarios and Examples replace test cases. The timing of business analysis activities is shifting like sand.

This course is a brief overview of how you can reduce waste in Business Analysis practices to optimally support the new lean and agile software development world. You will learn about topics such as:

· The purpose of a product roadmap and a prioritized product backlog

· The concept of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

· Agile and Lean thinking applied to requirements discovery, analysis, and acceptance testing

· Lean requirement constructs such as Features, User Stories, Epics, Scenarios, Examples, etc.

· The importance of feedback from your customers to improve the product

Who is the target audience?

Business Analysts
Product Owners
Subject Matter Experts
Project Managers
Managers of all levels
Business Architects
CIO
Anyone interested in Business Analysis for IT projects