Mastering Business Analysis, Scrum and JIRA for Development

Business Analysis & Scrum Agile Course Introduction

Let's go through the course overview to set the correct tone for the course. in this video, we will go through the course curriculum and focus areas. 

Let's take it step by step, start with a high level overview of Business Analysis.

Continuing with our last video, we will look into the role and responsibilities of a Business Analyst. 

Building upon our knowledge, let's cover essential business analysis terminologies and concepts which play vital role in business analysis. 

Quiz 1- Review your Learnings.

In this video, we will talk about requirement classification like business requirements, stakeholder requirements, solution requirements, transition requirements.

In this lecture, we will cover a high level overview of all business analysis knowledge area. This is particularly useful for CBAP & CCBA aspirants. But even if you are not preparing for these certifications, you must know and understand Business analysis knowledge areas.

This section can be mapped to business analysis planning and monitoring knowledge area of the BABOK and this video in particular can be linked Business Analysis Approach Planning Task. 

This video can be mapped with stakeholder engagement task in BA Planning and Monitoring knowledge area of BABOK v3. In this video, we learn about stakeholder engagement and management.

Governance is one of the most important aspect of any business entity, unit or process. Learn Business Analysis Governance for better understanding. 

Information is one of the most critical deliverable in business analysis and with it's proper management, you are going to miss on another vital BA element, stakeholder collaboration.  Learn about BA Information and communication management in this video.

Test Your Learning

Let's dive into one of the core activity of business analysis and review requirement elicitation.

Requirement Elicitation is a very important activity in a project and before BA start with that, business analyst need to put some time and effort in its preparation. This video will provide vital information about this preparation. 

Let's start with Requirement Elicitation Techniques. In this first video on popular techniques, we are going to cover Document Analysis and Benchmarking & Market Analysis.

Keeping focus on requirement elicitation techniques, we will now cover Brainstorming and Focus Groups in this video.

Interface Analysis is focus area in video of requirement elicitation techniques. 

Learn more about interface analysis which is a extremely important requirement gathering technique in business analysis.

Now let's focus on 2 other popular techniques, Observation and Prototyping.  These are extremely important for business analysts and business analysis.

No Requirement Elicitation Techniques Course can complete without covering requirement workshop and survey/questionnaire, in this video, we are going to complete our coverage of popular requirement elicitation techniques.  These are crucial to capture requirements in business analysis.

Let's use our learning so far and create business analysis document. 

Test Your Skills

Learn about SMART Requirements and business objectives. In Business analysis, you will write requirements but if they are vague , it won't help. As a business analyst, it's a must have for you.

Learn requirement management in this video and see how & why we should trace, maintain prioritize, assess and approve them.

Learn to assess risk, analyze current state and define future state and change strategy. 

Learn to model requirements, verify and validate them to fine tune requirements.

Now put together your learnings and test your knowledge. 

Assignment solution covering step by step tutorial on how to write a professional BRD.

Let's prepare for IIBA's certifications like CBAP, CCBA or others. And don't forget to download your cheatsheet from resource section. 

Learn about requirement modeling technique-Use Case and Scenarios.

Learn about wire framing requirement modeling technique, it's type and how it can add value to your project.

Useful Tips for BA aspirants to get BA jobs and middle level BAs to perform well. 

Introduction to scrum agile section of the course with overview of the course.

Before we start with Scrum, let's compare scrum with waterfall and see why scrum is good.

Scrum concepts, history and foundational information.

Let's have a bird eye view on scrum components.

You will learn everything about role of scrum master in this lecture.

Now we are going to cover Product Owner role in this video.

Scrum Master and Product Owner need a development to deliver projects, we are going to address scrum dev team in this video.

In this lecture, we are going to cover scrum artifacts like product backlog, user stories and sprint backlog.

We are going to cover burndown charts, velocity theory and a walk through on how to create them using excel. 

We will cover various scrum events like daily scrum meeting, sprint review, sprint retrospective, sprint planning meeting etc in this video.

In this video we are going to learn planning poker estimation technique.

You will learn how to start with a software development project and how to set your business objectives.

You will learn how everything happens in a sprint and who does what based on their roles.

Let's start with product management and in this brief introduction video, we will cover product management.

Let's understand what is product management. we will go through some of the job openings on linkedin to understand it better.

Learn details of product manager role and how you can become a great product manager.

Conduct market research, swot analysis & competition analysis with whatsapp payment feature.

Market research-free tools and techniques to help you conduct market research for product management.

In this video we will learn how to answer product market fit related interview question. We will use whatsapp payment feature for elaboration.