Business Analyst Training Program - Journey to BA

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3. Assignments and exercise
4. Practical scenario's
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7. Interview based questions and answers
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Shubham Khandagale Vivek Ubale Aki P Nita Khade Priyanka Patke

11/07/2022

Scrum Masters/agile Coaches think that helping the team is:

1. Attending/moderating the regular events.
2. Bringing sticky notes and sharpies.
3. Plan meetings in the calendar.
4. Keep the time box.

What it actually is:

1. Working with the team to have a unique goal(s) and direction.
2. Building within the team the unity of purpose and community of trust.
3. Solving collaboratively interesting problems impeding reaching the team's goals.
4. Identifying what to change.
5. Supporting the team to focus its effort on what to change.
6. Collecting data to support the team to make better decisions and start conversation that drive changes.
7. Asking good questions to trigger thinking to tackle the most important challenge(s)/problem(s).

Be an active change maker. Be the strategist of your team.
Shubham Khandagale Aki PNita Khade

07/07/2022

From 50% Agile Coach to 100% Scrum Master

Taking my personal mission into account, I needed to make an important change. If I want to create a better understanding of the Scrum Master role, I need to lead by example. Therefore, I decided to
remove “Agile Coach” from my social media profiles, and replace it with “Scrum Master.” 100% Scrum Master. Although it seems like a small change, it raised quite some concern when I suggested it:
• “You should stick with Agile Coach. As a freelancer, that’s a far more popular job title.”
• “No, don’t change it to Scrum Master, you’ll get paid less!”
• “Why don’t you call yourself Scrum Guru? Agile Transformation Coach? Enterprise Change Agent?”
• “At least call yourself a Senior Scrum Master or Chief Scrum Master!”
• “All the cool stuff is done by Agile Coaches; as a Scrum Master you’re stuck within your Scrum Team.”
• “Scrum is a hype, it can all be over within a year!”

But really, don’t call yourself a Scrum Master, your career as a freelancer will be doomed!
I will be honest; these concerns did give me some thought. Except the last one. If Scrum is a hype, then it’s a hype that turned 21 recently. That’s a pretty old hype. It should be possible to stick around for another 21 years. At that time, Scrum will be 42, and it will officially become the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. :-)
Best case, the prediction of Gunther Verheyen will become reality:
“The future state of Scrum will no longer be called “Scrum.” What we now call Scrum will have become the norm, as the new paradigm for the software industry has taken over and organizations have reinvented themselves around it.”
So why did I change my title from Agile Coach to Scrum Master? Let me try to explain it by using the values of Scrum shown in below pic.

08/06/2022

The Scrum Master Acts as a:
• A Servant Leader whose focus is on the needs of the team members and the people they provide value to (the customer) with the goal of achieving results in line with the organization’s values,
principles, and business objectives.
• A Facilitator by setting the stage and providing clear boundaries in which the team can collaborate.
• A Coach coaching the individual with a focus on mindset and behavior, the team in continuous improvement and the organization in truly collaborating with the Scrum team.
• A Manager responsible for managing impediments, eliminate waste, managing the process, managing the team's health, managing the boundaries of self-organization, and managing the culture.
• A Mentor that transfers Agile knowledge and experience to the team.
• A Teacher to ensure Scrum and other relevant methods are understood and enacted.
• An Impediment Remover solving blocking issues to the team's progress, taking into account the self-organizing capabilities of the Development Team.
• A Change Agent to enable a culture in which Scrum Teams can flourish.

08/06/2022

Sprint zero activities :
Just like other Sprints, Sprint Zeros should follow the same activities:
1. Backlog updated
2. Sprint planning session ensues
3. Daily Sprint team meetings
4. Sprint review sessions or debrief
5. Deliverable product

Sprint zero benefits :
The main benefit of a Sprint Zero is that it allows a team to get an idea of the work ahead of them.
They can then self-organize in order to perform better in the long run. This also builds confidence in team members that they can handle the work to come. When individuals go into a project without clarity, they are likely to become slowed at some point which could affect the success of a Sprint. Sprint Zero seeks to avoid this obstacle by offering an opportunity to plan a framework for success and ensure a working Sprint environment.

Sprint Zero: not just pre-planning
Pre-planning is important to the ex*****on of any project. Standard project preparations for software developers include gathering the right people and equipment to get the job done. But these steps
do not characterize a Sprint Zero.
Unlike pre-planning, a Sprint Zero is not a project requirement. In fact, Sprint teams that are quick and efficient may never need a Sprint Zero. But for organizations new to Scrum, starting with a Sprint Zero should be the tipping point that engrains Agile principles of software development into an otherwise operational business culture.

24/05/2022

SAFe

SAFe is provided by Scaled Agile, Inc., where our core belief is simple: Better systems and software make the world a better place. Our mission is to assist those who build these systems through development and publication of the SAFe framework, as well as accompanying certification, training, and courseware.
As case studies on the Scaled Agile Framework website (https://lnkd.in/d6ZvEwX) show, many enterprises—large and small—are getting outstanding business benefits from applying SAFe.

These typically include:
• 20 – 50% increase in productivity
• 50%+ increases in quality
• 30 – 75% faster time to market
• Measurable increases in employee engagement and job satisfaction

SAFe provides three, and optionally four, organization levels, as well as a foundation, as follows:
1. Team Level – SAFe is based on Agile Teams, each of which is responsible for defining, building, and testing stories from their backlog. Teams employ Scrum or Kanban methods, augmented by quality practices, to deliver value in a series of synchronized,
fixed-length iterations.
2. Program Level – SAFe teams are organized into a virtual program structure called the “Agile Release Train” (ART). Each ART is a long-lived, self-organizing team of 5 to 12 Agile Teams—along with other stakeholders—that plan, commit, execute, inspect and adapt, and deliver solutions together.
3. Value Stream Level – The optional value stream level supports the development of large and complex solutions. These solutions require multiple, synchronized ARTs, as well as stronger focus on solution intent and solution context. Suppliers and additional stakeholders contribute as well.
4. Portfolio Level – The portfolio level organizes and funds a set of value streams. The portfolio provides solution development funding via Lean-Agile budgeting and provides necessary governance and value stream coordination.
5. Foundation Layer – The foundation layer holds various additional elements that support development. Elements include guidance for Lean-Agile Leaders, communities of practice, core values, the Lean-Agile mindset, the nine Lean-Agile principles that guide
SAFe, and an overview of implementation strategy.

Learn about the seven core competencies that make up the SAFE 5.0 Framework.

18/04/2022

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03/04/2022

What is Requirements Life cycle Management from BA perspective?

Business Analyst, quite often, I have to maintain the requirements created during the elicitation phase. I assume it is expected of you, too. What does this requirements maintenance mean precisely? If I consider my activities again, it means that I ensure that the requirements are up-to-date, accurate, and consistent with each other. I create traces between requirements and designs. I also link requirements to interview/workshop notes and other business analysis information that is relevant and helps understand the requirement. I take care of requirements prioritization, either by working with the Product Owner or other stakeholders with decision-making power. I prepare requirements for approval, organize reviews, and promote requirements to Approved status in line with review results. Finally, when a change is submitted, I register the change, do impact analysis, and ensure that the relevant stakeholders decide on the resolution.

1. Trace Requirements

The focus of this task is to create relationships between requirements and designs on different levels. This task ensures that requirements and designs are in sync with each other. You decide what traces are relevant for your initiative and what value they bring.

2. Maintain Requirements

The requirements and designs must stay accurate and consistent throughout their life cycle. This means that as a Business Analyst, you maintain the requirements, designs, and their attributes so that they reflect the current initiative’s status.

3. Prioritize Requirements

This task focuses on ranking the requirements in order of relative importance. It requires that you know the relevant stakeholders who should participate in the prioritization process. The key stakeholders have to understand and agree with these factors, too. Additionally, you will be responsible for managing conflicts among stakeholders and working towards a resolution and alignment between parties.

4. Assess Requirements Changes

This task is about the evaluation of the implications of a proposed change. You assess the change against the overall project objectives. You clarify, among others, how does this change affect the business value? What is the impact on time? What is the impact on the budget?. Depending on the business analysis approach, you can decide to be more or less formal about change management.

5. Approve Requirements

When you execute this task, you obtain agreements and approvals on requirements and designs. To perform this task, you have to know the roles of stakeholders and their authority level. You will gain consensus on approvals and manage any conflicts that may arise due to differences between stakeholders. Finally, you will also communicate the approvals to the remaining stakeholders who did not participate in the approval process.

02/04/2022

BA STAKEHOLDERS’ INTERACTION CHART

Stakeholders are perhaps the most critical part of a
business analyst's job.
A stakeholder can be any one or more of the
following:

1. Sponsor – Financial/budget approver
2. Domain SME – Provides details on business
rules, clarification on business logic
3. End Users – The solution/product/project
is built for them
4. Regulators – Provides clarity on
regulatory requirements/business rules
5. Supplier – Anyone who supplies any
resource (Man power, Product) for the project
6. PM/Project Manager – Responsible for the governance
of the project
7. Architect – Responsible for the technology
backbone/architecture of the solution
8. Dev team – Responsible for the
project/system development
9. QA team - Responsible for the QA/testing/defect
detection
10. Ops Team - Responsible for the infrastructure
availability

12/03/2022

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