The Business Analyst’s role is to study the overall business and information
needs of an organization, in order to facilitate solutions to business problems. This may involve:

• Strategic analysis, modelling strategic themes and drivers
• Business capability modelling – modelling what the business does (conceptual activity models), as opposed to how it does it (physical process models)
• Process and value stream (value chain) mapping
• Skills and competency mapping
• Process re-definition / re-engineering
• Data definition and events identification
• Liaison between different business and technical disciplines
• Requirements engineering
• Discovery and definition of cost-effective, valuable solutions to business needs

Introducing an Agile approach has a significant impact on the role of the Business Analyst, on their existing skills and their way of working.

Whilst traditional skills are still valuable, new skills and ways of working need to be adopted to harness the benefits of a new way of working and to appreciate the different relationships with co-workers.

There is a growing body of evidence that an Agile approach is an effective way of working in projects. Key features:

• The collaborative working and involvement of people with the right skills, including those of the customer and end-users of the product we are producing
• An incremental approach, delivering value early and regularly
• The acceptance that we cannot know all of the detail at the outset, and that we will inevitably learn more as work progresses
• The definition of fine detail only just before we need it, to avoid the waste of trying to predict the detail too early
• The empowerment of people at the right levels, to make decisions on detail.

• Business Analysis Fundamentals
• Strategy and Organization
• Practices
• Requirements

AgileBA will provide an organization with a standard approach to executing agile projects, as the approach is aligned with AgilePM and AgilePgM. Implementation of AgileBA delivers the following advantages:

• Informs Agile and traditional project managers – who often also have business analysis responsibilities, of the content of an Agile business analyst role in addition to educating them on Agile techniques.
• Scrum developers will benefit from gaining an understanding of the Business Analyst role. AgileBA fills the gap of lacking Business Analyst understanding as a result of there being no defined roles for Scrum developers.
• Product Owners will benefit from the Agile development skills delivered during the AgileBA training courses.

• The guidance and training provides business analysts involved in Agile projects, large and small, with the tools they need to adopt an agile approach.
• It gives advice on focus and value-delivery and guidance on working with business stakeholders, developers, testers and outlines the skills needed to deliver solutions incrementally.
• It equips the business analyst with techniques to incorporate Agile approaches into a programme and to align change with organizational objectives.
• Individuals will gain:-
  – Knowledge and understanding of AgileBA
  – Agile Business Analysis techniques
  – How to move from traditional to more agile ways of working
• Successful candidates are eligible for a complimentary 3-month membership with
  Agile Business Consortium.