IT Business Analysts: What They Do and How to Succeed

IT Business Analysts: What They Do and How to Succeed, available at Free, has an average rating of 4.49, with 12 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 729 reviews, and has 9250 subscribers.

You will learn about Define the capabilities and challenges of Lean and Agile software development philosophies Requirements gathering (elicitation) techniques for Lean, Agile, and Continuous Delivery software development environments Support Lean or Agile teams by communicating business needs and wants in formats that support modern Software Drill-down requirements, features, user stories, and functions to identify and write test scenarios in G-W-T (Given-When-Then) statements to facilitate testing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) threaten waterfall and Agile software development approaches alike This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner Business Analysts, Product Owners, Product Managers and anyone tasked with discovering, defining, or communicating the characteristics expected of future digital solutions. It is particularly useful for Beginner Business Analysts, Product Owners, Product Managers and anyone tasked with discovering, defining, or communicating the characteristics expected of future digital solutions.

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Summary

Title: IT Business Analysts: What They Do and How to Succeed

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.49

Number of Lectures: 12

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 12

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 15

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 15

Original Price: Free

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What You Will Learn

Define the capabilities and challenges of Lean and Agile software development philosophies
Requirements gathering (elicitation) techniques for Lean, Agile, and Continuous Delivery software development environments
Support Lean or Agile teams by communicating business needs and wants in formats that support modern Software
Drill-down requirements, features, user stories, and functions to identify and write test scenarios in G-W-T (Given-When-Then) statements to facilitate testing
Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) threaten waterfall and Agile software development approaches alike

Who Should Attend

Beginner Business Analysts, Product Owners, Product Managers and anyone tasked with discovering, defining, or communicating the characteristics expected of future digital solutions.

Target Audiences

Beginner Business Analysts, Product Owners, Product Managers and anyone tasked with discovering, defining, or communicating the characteristics expected of future digital solutions.

Agile software development is a popular methodology for IT project management. It has proven to be effective, but it is typically difficult to implement within an organization that has already developed its own processes and procedures. Many of the techniques we have used in traditional (i.e., waterfall) approaches still provide value but they need to be adapted to a more lean approach.

Business analysts and product owners no longer have time to define the end solution in its full-blown glory before handing it over to the developers. Agile is by definition an iterative approach. To support it, we need to fine-tune our business analysis techniques to ensure we deliver user stories, features, and requirements that follow the lean principles. That means we need to express business needs:

at the last responsible moment to ensure the expressed needs are up-to-date in an everchanging business environment, and
with the required quality to minimize costly miscommunication errors that plague many software projects.

This overview describes methods for optimizing the process of extracting, discovering, communicating, and validating business needs for technological solutions. Readers who prefer a more detailed depiction are invited to consider our more in-depth treatment in our course “Agile Business Analysis: Getting / Writing Lean Requirements“.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Collaboration Is the Key to Lean and Agile Business Analysis

Lecture 1: What is Lean Business Analysis for Digital Solutions and Who Does It?

Lecture 2: Business Needs Analysis Turns Visions into Features, User Stories, Functions, an

Lecture 3: Collaboration Is the Key to Agile Requirements Elicitation

Chapter 2: Lean and Agile Software Development Is Iterative and Incremental

Lecture 1: Lean Analysis Delivers Features and Functional Details at the Right Time

Lecture 2: Elicit and Analyze Requirements / Business Needs at the Last Responsible Moment

Lecture 3: Lean and Agile Build on Core Business Analysis Techniques

Lecture 4: IT Business Analysts Need to Learn the Language of Lean and Agile

Chapter 3: User Story Splitting and User Testing Deliver The Detail that Developers Need

Lecture 1: User Story or Functional Drill-down Reveals Details Developers Relish

Lecture 2: As Always, Acceptance Testing Is Essential to Delivering Digital Solutions

Lecture 3: The Non-Functional Requirements Dimension Is Still Our Biggest Challenge

Lecture 4: In the End, Analysis Is Still a Critical Success Factor

Lecture 5: BONUS LECTURE: More Business Analysis Courses from Tom and Angela Hathaway

Instructors

Tom and Angela Hathaway
Integrating AI for Business Analysis and UX Mastery

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