Collaborating and Communicating Agile Requirements Nov 8th – 10th

Collaborating and Communicating Agile Requirements

Learn how to elicit effective requirements for your Agile projects with hands-on exercises in this course.

Summary

Project failures are often due to poor requirements gathering, analysis and planning. Traditional requirements documents may not contain complete and accurate requirements due to rapidly changing business environments. Agile requirements gathering, by moving detailed requirements closer to implementation, allows for rapid response to change. This user story training course will show you how to define and manage these requirements effectively as well as demonstrate alternative ways of documenting requirements and managing changes. These alternatives can allow for a less “heavy” process in projects that can benefit from quick changes in direction.

Who will Benefit?

This course is beneficial to all members on an Agile team, but will add the most value for those in a Product Owner role or are a part of the development team and have focus on grooming the product backlog.

This course is designed for:

• Business Analysts, Requirements Analysts or Business Systems Analysts
• Product Owners, Business customers, users or partners
• QA Professionals, Systems Testers or User Acceptance Testers
• Systems/Application Analysts, Architects, Designers or Developers
• Anyone that wants to enhance their understanding and ability to author and elaborate on user stories

Topics Covered

• Learn how to adapt quickly and positively to rapidly changing business needs and priorities
• Learn how to collaborate on requirements for a project
• Align development to business needs to provide business value quickly
• Learn the benefits of using Agile methods to communicate requirements
• Understand the five levels of planning in Agile
• Use agile requirements as an effective basis for planning and testing
• Understand the characteristics of a well-written agile requirement
• Understand how to plan frequent releases so that customers can recognize benefit quickly
• Learn mapping techniques for identifying the stories of larger releases
• Minimize risks of ineffective solutions by obtaining frequent feedback

Prerequisites

All are welcome to attend the course, regardless of experience.

What you’ll learn

Agile Overview

Business Analyst activities in Agile

User Personas

User Story Overview

Other types of backlog items

Non-functional (tech debt)

Defects

5 Levels of Planning

Epics

Product Backlog and Prioritization

Building a Comprehensive Release Plan and Backlog

Prep and Support of Sprints

Retrospectives

Refund Policy

Participants who cancel less than 6 business days before the start of class, or do not attend class without prior written notice will forfeit their tuition. If a participant requests to reschedule their class within 6 business days, their tuition will not be refundable and a $200 administrative fee is required to enroll in a new session. Participants are eligible for a tuition refund only when requested more than 6 business days before class starts.

Course Registration Information

All courses carry our guarantee of 100% Satisfaction

Agility Consulting International provides an unsurpassed training experience. If for any reason you are not satisfied with your experience, simply notify the instructor or registrar of your intent to withdraw from the program prior to the first morning break, turn in your course materials and receive a 100% refund. If at the end of the program day, you are unsatisfied with the program, we will credit your tuition towards a future program of your choice. If you use the training credit on a higher-priced program, you pay only the difference.