AAC+Product Owner Instructor-led Virtual Training

This training is designed for describing the benefits, activities, tasks, skills, and practices required for effective business analysis with an agile mindset which has a constant focus on delivering business value. It also describes how techniques and concepts commonly used in agile approaches can be applied to business analysis practices. This provides practitioners, teams, and organizations a base of knowledge to enable effective agile business analysis in order to generate successful business outcomes that add real business and customer value. 

The Agile Analysis Certification introduces a multi-level, rolling planning model to help practitioners, teams, and organizations manage business analysis work, so they can quickly leverage learning and discover what provides the most actual value. This rolling wave planning model is presented using three horizons which provide context and scope for lower levels. The three horizons are:

• Strategy Horizon,
• Initiative Horizon, and
• Delivery Horizon.

There are a wide variety of techniques, processes, and tools that can be applied to agile business analysis. There is no single approach that should be applied to every context, and part of the skill of the agile business analysis practitioner is to select the most effective techniques for the specific context; the Agile Extension does provide some advice for practitioners on the applicability of different techniques to different contexts.

This training is endorsed by IIBA and provides 21 Professional development hours

What you will receive:

1. 21 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) to renew your CBAP/CCBA
2. 5-days access to Watermark’s IIBA-AAC online study exam simulator 

Each participant will receive 5 days unlimited access to the AAC exam simulator which has more than 600 AAC questions that are similar in the tone and complexity as in an actual AAC exam. The online exam has three modes –  

1. Warm-up mode: Three options of 50, 100 or 150 questions to know the understanding and plan the study efforts.
2. Drill-down mode: Use the Drill section alone or with a study group to concentrate on one section at a time. The detailed answer feedback in this section shows exactly where to go to find additional information on that subject
3. AAC Exam Simulator: When ready, take the full AAC exam simulator.

Course Outline

Introduction to Agile principles

• Agile Product Management

• Value-Driven Development

• Scrum Principles & Empiricism

• The Scrum Framework

• Product Backlog Management

• Release Management

Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework

• Empiricism

• Scrum Values

• Roles

• Events

• Artifacts

• Done

• Scaling

The Agile Mindset

· The agile mindset & manifesto

· Agile business analysis principles

· Planning approaches

· Overview of the three planning horizons

· Scrum framework and terminology

· Scrum and agile team roles and responsibilities

Strategy Horizon

· Overview of the Strategy Horizon

· How agile principles apply at this horizon

· Techniques used to align initiatives with business strategy

Initiative Horizon

· Overview of the Initiative Horizon

· How agile principles apply at this horizon

· User roles and personas

· Creating the Product Backlog

· User stories and job stories

· Ordering the backlog

· Prioritization methods

· Value mapping techniques

 Delivery Horizon

· Overview of the Delivery Horizon

· How agile principles apply at this horizon

· Sprint planning process

· Estimation techniques

· Refining the Product Backlog

· Using models to elaborate stories

· Running a Sprint

· Sprint review

· Retrospective

Common Techniques

· Backlog Refinement

· Behavior Driven Development

· Impact Mapping

· Job Stories

· Kano Analysis

· Minimal Viable Product

· Personas

· Planning Workshops

· Portfolio Kanban

· Product Roadmap

· Purpose Alignment Model

 · Real Options

· Relative Estimation

· Retrospectives Reviews

· Spikes

· Storyboarding

· Story Decomposition

· Story Elaboration

· Story Mapping

· User Stories

· Value Modelling

· Value Stream Mapping

· Visioning