Agile Business Analysis Course

Lesson 1 • Agile Manifesto and Core Values

Unpacks the four Agile values and twelve principles as applied to BA work. Anchors all subsequent techniques in a shared philosophical foundation.

Lesson 2 • Agile Delivery Lifecycle for BAs

Maps BA activities to discovery, elaboration, sprint, and review phases. Students can sequence their own work within a typical Agile delivery cycle.

Lesson 3 • Agile Frameworks Overview

Surveys Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and LeSS at a structural level. Enables BAs to adapt their toolkit to whichever framework the organisation uses.

Lesson 1 • Stakeholder Identification Techniques

Covers onion diagrams, RACI matrices, and power-interest grids adapted for Agile. Provides tools to surface hidden stakeholders before sprint work begins.

Lesson 2 • Continuous Stakeholder Collaboration

Establishes rhythms for ongoing feedback loops beyond formal ceremonies. Students design lightweight engagement cadences that sustain alignment across releases.

Lesson 3 • Managing Stakeholder Expectations

Addresses scope creep, changing priorities, and conflicting stakeholder needs within Agile. Equips BAs to negotiate and communicate trade-offs transparently.

Lesson 1 • Requirements Validation Techniques

Covers walkthroughs, prototyping, and BDD to confirm requirements accuracy before coding. Reduces rework by catching misalignment at the requirements stage.

Lesson 2 • Non-Functional Requirements in Agile

Integrates performance, security, and usability constraints into Agile artifacts. Prevents NFRs from being deferred until late delivery stages.

Lesson 3 • Lightweight Requirements Documentation

Balances just-enough documentation with Agile's preference for working software. Students produce minimal viable artifacts that satisfy audit and handoff needs.

Lesson 4 • Epics, Features, and Story Decomposition

Explains the hierarchy from business goals to epics to features to stories. Students practise splitting large requirements into sprint-sized deliverables.

Lesson 1 • Decision Modeling and Rules

Introduces decision tables and DMN notation for capturing complex business logic. Ensures business rules are explicit, testable, and version-controlled.

Lesson 2 • User Journey and Experience Mapping

Builds empathy maps, journey maps, and service blueprints to surface user pain points. Translates emotional and functional insights into prioritised backlog features.

Lesson 3 • Data Modeling for Agile BAs

Covers entity-relationship diagrams and data dictionaries at a BA-appropriate depth. Prevents data misunderstandings between business and technical teams.

Lesson 4 • Wireframing and Prototyping

Teaches low-fidelity wireframing and clickable prototyping to validate UI requirements. Reduces misinterpretation of interface requirements before development begins.

Lesson 1 • Backlog Health and Maintenance

Addresses backlog bloat, stale items, and dependency management over time. Students apply grooming routines that keep the backlog actionable and current.

Lesson 2 • Backlog Prioritisation Frameworks

Compares MoSCoW, WSJF, Kano, and value-vs-effort matrices for ordering work. Students select and apply the right framework to a given product context.

Lesson 3 • Backlog Refinement Facilitation

Teaches how to plan, facilitate, and follow up on refinement sessions effectively. Ensures the team enters sprint planning with a ready, well-understood backlog.

Lesson 1 • Definition of Done and Quality Gates

Establishes how BAs contribute to and enforce Definition of Done criteria. Connects quality standards to sprint completion and release readiness.

Lesson 2 • Exploratory Testing Participation

Equips BAs to conduct charter-based exploratory testing alongside QA. Leverages BA domain knowledge to find edge cases testers might miss.

Lesson 3 • Behavior-Driven Development for BAs

Positions BAs as authors of BDD scenarios that bridge business intent and automated tests. Establishes the three-amigos practice as a core BA collaboration ritual.

Lesson 1 • Reporting and Communicating Metrics

Builds skills for creating information radiators, dashboards, and stakeholder reports. Ensures metrics drive decisions rather than just documenting activity.

Lesson 2 • Defining Business Value in Agile

Establishes frameworks for quantifying and qualifying business value at story and epic levels. Prevents teams from optimising for output over outcome.

Lesson 3 • Outcome and Impact Metrics

Introduces OKRs, NPS, conversion rates, and retention as outcome-level measures. Connects delivered features to measurable business impact post-release.

Lesson 1 • Product Vision and Strategy Alignment

Connects BA work to product vision, strategy maps, and business model canvases. Ensures every backlog item traces to a strategic objective.

Lesson 2 • Roadmap Planning and Communication

Teaches outcome-based roadmapping using Now-Next-Later and theme-based formats. Students build roadmaps that communicate direction without over-committing to dates.

Lesson 3 • Continuous Discovery Practices

Establishes weekly discovery habits including customer interviews, assumption testing, and opportunity mapping. Keeps the product team connected to real user needs between releases.

Lesson 4 • Organisational Agility and BA Influence

Positions BAs as change agents who shape Agile adoption and process improvement. Graduates apply influence strategies to elevate BA practice across the organisation.