Upcoming courses and Webinars:

Agile Analysis and Planning: Fundamental Principles and Best Practices for POs and Team Analysts, hosted by O’Reilly Learning

Format: Webinar, online

Duration: 4 hours

Next session: Mar 20, 2024 1-5 pm ET

Description: Join Howard Podeswa and get actionable guidance for improving your agile analysis and planning. Learn key tools and techniques to apply across your organization, including how to choose the best agile framework, prepare features to maximize value delivery, increase team productivity, reduce rework and delays, use hypothesis-testing and MVPs to direct investment, and use story maps to plan release cycles. If you are a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Team/Business Analyst this course is for you. No prior experience necessary. Download PDFs of the templates and artifacts from this session to use in your organization.

For full description and registration information, click here.

The Product Owner (PO) Crash Course (POOC)

Level up your product ownership (PO) skill set by learning foundational practices in product backlog refinement and planning, in this online, highly interactive workshop

Format: Online, Interactive workshop

Duration: 8 hours over 2 days

Next session: TBD (early 2024)

Description: Are you a Product Owner, Product Manager or Business Analyst in an agile organization? Attend this course to level up your product ownership (PO) skill set. Learn to apply key tools and techniques, including:

• how to prepare features to minimize errors, rework and delays,

• how to structure change requests into epics, features and stories,

• how to specify acceptance criteria using ATDD/BDD, and

• how to split stories using SAFe and Lawrence patterns

This course is delivered live online by Howard Podeswa, and will be highly interactive and hands-on using Zoom, a collaborative whiteboard and break-out sessions. The templates and artifacts from this course will be made available for use in your organization.

For full description and registration information, click here

The Story Mapping Workshop: How to use Story Maps for Agile Release (Quarterly) Planning (TSMW)

Are you a Product Owner, Product Manager or Business Analyst in an agile organization? Take this workshop to gain hands-on experience building story maps for release planning or epic planning. You’ll learn how to use Story Maps to: visualize the implementation and operational sequencing of stories; ensure a coherent set of features is delivered frequently; test product and feature hypotheses; plan MVP experiments and quick wins; identify gaps and visualize dependencies between stories.

Format: Online, Interactive workshop

Duration: 8 hours over 2 days

Next session: TBD (early 2024)

For full description and registration information, click here

Other courses in Business Analysis and Product Ownership:

Available in-house (client location) internationally and online (virtual classroom). Please contact us to learn more.

(BA123) The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning Workshop for the BA & PO – from Strategic Plan to Continuous Value Delivery

Duration: 3 days IRL and online (May be delivered in 2 days with select content.)
Description: Learn how to apply the agile Business Analysis toolkit to agile projects. For full description, click here.

(BA001X) The Practical Guide to Business Analysis and Planning for the Business Analyst and Product Owner (Agile and Legacy Tools)

Duration: 2 days IRL and online
Description: Our foundational course, covering all of the tools you’ll need to be an effective BA or PO - including the full gamut of state-of-the-art agile and legacy analysis tools. Take this course if you are responsible for business analysis or product ownership activities in a software development organization, e.g., as a Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, or Proxy PO. The course covers all the key tools and competencies of business analysis and planning – with one full day on legacy BA techniques that add value to agile and traditional projects, as well as an entire day on agile analysis and planning tools. Training is interspersed with coaching during practical team workshops on a live project or case study. For full description, click here.

(BA001) The Business Analyst's Crash Course™

Duration: 2 days IRL and online
Description: Take this course if you need a quick immersion course in the all the key knowledge areas of Business Analysis. For full description, click here.

This course is IIBA-approved and qualifies for 14 CDUs (Career Development Units) towards CBAP accreditation.

(BA002) Eliciting and Documenting Requirements with Use-Cases

Duration: 2 days IRL and online
Description: This course walks the trainee through requirements-gathering and documentation starting from the early stages of a project employing the 'use-case' approach - an approach gaining renewed popularity as a complement to User Stories in agile development. For full description, click here.

This course is IIBA-approved and qualifies for 14 CDUs (Career Development Units) towards CBAP accreditation.

(BA004) Data and Object Modeling Workshop for the BA: Analyzing Business Rules with Class Diagrams and ERDs (with UML 2)

Duration: 2 days
Description: Learn how to use structural analysis techniques to elicit and model business rules, concepts and definitions for a business domain. This is a non-technical course with a solid BA perspective: The focus is on modeling the real-world business, not on database design. For full description, click here.

This course is IIBA-approved and qualifies for 14 CDUs (Career Development Units) towards CBAP accreditation.

(BA005.2D) Business Process Modeling Over the SDLC with BPMN

Duration: 2 days
Description: Learn to model the workflow of business processes using popular standard, BPMN. This is a hands-on practical workshop: Trainees step through a complex real-life case study, learning how to draw the diagrams and when to use the techniques effectively during the development lifecycle. The course focuses on the most popular standard for business process modelling, Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) and includes guidance on transitioning from the business process model to the requirements model. For full description, click here.

This course is IIBA-approved and qualifies for 14 CDUs (Career Development Units) towards CBAP accreditation.

(BA006) Testing and Quality Assurance for the BA and QA Professional

Duration: 2 days
Description: Testing and Quality Assurance for the BA and QA professional. Covers Six Sigma, use-case scenario testing, structured and other QA tools and techniques employed by a BA and QA professional during an IT project. For full description, click here.

(BA101) Mastering the Business Analysis Process over the System Development Life Cycle

Duration: 4 days [May be extended to 5 days based upon the knowledge level of trainees.]
Description: This course enables the trainee to perform the activities that an advanced BA is responsible for over the systems development life cycle (SDLC) and to be conversant with all of the methodologies, concepts and terminology expected of the BA. For full description, click here.

This course is IIBA-approved and qualifies for 28 CDUs (Career Development Units) towards CBAP accreditation.