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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Style: 80% hands-on / 20% facilitator input
Tools Used: Miro / Jamboard or physical whiteboards, Excel / Lucidchart / your preferred BA tools

1. Role Reassessment: Business Analysis in Agile & Product Teams

  • View Business Analysis as an enabler that extends beyond simple requirement documentation
  • Exercise: Team Mapping — Locate your role within the product and team lifecycle, identify key customers and users, and surface alignment issues or blockers
  • Deliverable: A personalized “Business Analysis Position Map”

2. Data-Driven Decision Making with BA Techniques

  • Practice interpreting complex, raw user research data
  • Hands-on session: Develop hypothesis statements regarding problems or opportunities
  • Techniques covered include Pareto Analysis (80/20 rule), Root Cause Analysis (Fishbone / 5 Whys), Decision Matrix, and Hypothesis Writing

3. Process Optimization Simulation

  • Collaborative mini-project to redesign a customer business process based on real-world scenarios
  • Tools applied: SIPOC (Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, Customers) and User Story Mapping
  • Teams present “before & after” diagrams for critique and iterative refinement

4. Advanced Elicitation in Complex Environments

  • Hone skills in crafting user stories and acceptance criteria, mapping complex stakeholders, prioritizing conflicting needs, and applying roadmap techniques (Now/Next/Later)
  • Role-play activity: Eliciting detailed user stories from story maps

5. Translating Strategy into Action: OKRs & Beyond

  • Scenario-based team sprint centered on the objective to “innovate faster”
  • Teams define the Objective, three Key Results, and a corresponding Business Analysis action plan
  • Presentations followed by structured peer feedback

6. Conclusion & Templates Toolkit

  • Provide a comprehensive BA toolkit featuring templates for stakeholder mapping, story mapping, prioritization, and other key areas
  • Facilitate discussion on key insights and takeaways gathered from participants

Requirements

Prerequisites:

  • A solid grasp of business analysis fundamentals and key terminology
  • Basic familiarity with user stories and initial stakeholder engagement practices
  • Proficiency with digital collaboration platforms such as Miro, Jamboard, Excel, or comparable tools
  • An analytical perspective with a desire to sharpen problem-solving and decision-making abilities

Audience:

  • Business Analysts
  • Product Owners/Managers
  • User Researchers

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