Archive for the ‘Analysis’ Category
Friday, November 18th, 2011
I’m pleased to share my podcast with Jochen (Joe) Krebs*, Founder of Agile NYC. The podcast was recorded on October 11, 2011, just before my presentation to the Agile NYC group.
The presentation, entitled, Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis:
Deliver Value via Structured Conversations describes how product stakeholders partner to develop a shared understanding of the product needs. I discuss how the partners gain a focused yet holistic understanding of the highest-value requirements and plan the project so that the delivery team builds the right product, at the right time. Continue reading
Tags: Agile, Agile Business Analysis, Agile Planning, agile requirements, Business Value, Elicitation, product needs, Product Partnership, Product stakeholders, requirements, Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholders, Structured Conversation
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
I’m honored to share my podcast with Yaaqub (Yamo) Mohamed of The BACoach. We discuss ingredients for effective requirements workshops described in my first book, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs.
Tags: Agile, Agile Business Analysis, agile requirements, agile team, BABOK, Books, Business Analyst, Business Value, collaboration, Elicitation, Facilitation, requirements
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
The tenth anniversary of the international Agile 20xx conference, Agile 2011, returned to its inaugural location, Salt Lake City, Utah. The attendance set a record for being the largest agile conference in the world! This year’s conference, held August 9-12 2011, was attended by 1,600+ people. It was jam-packed with morning-to-night activities. The conference also included events to reflect and celebrate on the 10th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto.
We at EBG Consulting were pleased to have been selected (from over 900 submissions) to present three sessions. Here are some of highlights and trends: 
Tags: Agile, Agile Business Analysis, agile requirements, Business Rules, Product Partnership, Product stakeholders, requirements, Structured Conversation, Tester Mindset
Posted in Agile, Agile Business Analysis, agile manifesto, Agile Workshops, Analysis, Business Analysis, Business rules, collaboration, Continuous delivery, ellen gottesdiener, lean, Lean startup, mary gorman, Product Partnership, requirements, Structured Conversation, Tester Mindset | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
I’m pleased to share with you an “author cast,” a podcast interview of me by Yaaqub (Yamo) Mohamed of The BACoach.
Yamo’s interview got me thinking and reflecting on my own professional learning journey and dig into the two books I’ve written (so far 
). Continue reading | 1 Comment
Tags: Agile BA, Agile Business Analysis, agile requirements, Books, Business Value, Elicitation, Product Owner, requirements, Workshops, Writing
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Are you working on data-centric software products? For example, ones that involves building a data warehouse, using extract-transform-load (ETL) and getting the gold—delivering business intelligence and analytic reports and queries for business decision makers?
Sue Burk shares the value of scenarios to define acceptance tests, and other practical techniques to improve your success with these data-centric projects in her expert response. Continue reading
Tags: Analytics, BABOK, Business Analyst, Business Intelligence, Data, Documentation, Elicitation, requirements, Scenarios
Posted in Analysis, Analytics, BABOK, Business Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data, Documentation, iiba babok, requirements, Scenarios, Sue Burk | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
I was recently interviewed by SearchSoftwareQuality editor Yvette Francino about this week’s Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop at the Better Conference/Development Conference this week in Las Vegas, Nevada (6-7 June, 2011).
Yvette asked me to explain the logistics, if we would be emulating gathering requirements for a particular project and if the workshop be relevant regardless of domain area. Here are my answers: As conference chair, Continue reading | 1 Comment
Tags: Agile, Agile BA, Agile Business Analysis, Agile Business Analyst, agile requirements, BABOK, Business Analyst, business analysts role, Business Value, Documentation, Elicitation, Product Owner, requirements, Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholders
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
What Tough Agile Analysis Questions Do Business Analysts Need Answered? 
This is the question I posed to the participants in a facilitated workshop at the Building Business Capability Conference (BBC) 2010 this past fall. The BBC conference, held in the Washington, D.C. area, was the first official IIBA ® conference. It offered tracks for business analysis, business rules, and business process management.
Context for the “Tough Agile Analysis Questions” Workshop
As the facilitator, I had 30 minutes to “crowdsource” from an energetic, curious, and motivated group of 120 business analysts. Many analysts in attendance were new to agile practices. All of them cared deeply about the value of business analysis. They were eager to… Continue reading
Tags: Agile, Agile analysis, Agile Business Analysis, Agile Business Analyst, agile requirements, BABOK, Business Analyst, business analysts role, IIBA, requirements
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Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Mary Gorman and I wrote an article on analysis debt Better Software. In it, we said that, like technical debt, teams can incur analysis debt by either ignoring analysis (a potential pitfall of agile teams) or overinvesting in analysis (a potential pitfall of traditional teams).
In a private exchange, one article reader took me to task. Referencing our table of Analysis Debt Causes, he wrote, “I see poor requirements work that would result in an inadequate solution, no matter how well [the product] built.” Furthermore, he said, “all the Remedies [in your article] are really requirements best practices.”
I was glad to hear his perspective because it prompted me to… Continue reading
Tags: Agile Business Analysis, Agile Business Analyst, agile team, Analysis Debt, requirements
Posted in Agile, Agile Business Analysis, Agile Business Analysis Flow, Agile Business Analyst, Agile Planning, agile requirements, Analysis, Analysis Debt, collaboration, mary gorman, requirements | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
“Oh drat”, you think.
“I’ve got to do a presentation!”
Nevertheless, you smile and ask, “Oh, sure—what’s the date?”
Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals to the rescue!
Out comes Naomi’s Karten’s splendid book. You open it, eager for your sit-down with your personal presentation skills coach. You are easily captivated by Naomi’s clever style and practical guidance on presentations, and grateful for the online references and resources that supplement the text. Reading this book not only prepares you for your upcoming presentation; it also helps you get in the groove and enables you to gain confidence as you prepare. You actually enjoy the process!
I was flattered when… Continue reading
Tags: Agile Business Analysis, Business Analysis, collaboration, Communication Skills, Facilitation, Learning, Presentations, Workshops
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
By Mary Gorman
In my Stickyminds.com column “Playing at Work: Agile Games Deliver Value” I share game ideas and experiences – the benefits games can provide, selecting an appropriate game, facilitating a game, and designing a winning game.
Designing and Facilitating Agile Games
When writing the column I got to thinking how agile principles could provide a basis for good game design and facilitation. I reflected on a recent experience I had at Deep Agile 2010: Empowering Teams with Agile Games. Working in a small group we created a new game, tested it, and retrospected both the game and our design process in less than half a day. We consciously (and some times unconsciously!) were being agile! (To see and learn more about our game, read Michael Sahota’s summary at The Backlog Is in the Eye of the Beholder.)
Games and The Agile Manifesto
To clearly communicate the agile-ness of our work and what we learned I did a quick mapping to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Continue reading
Tags: Agile, Agile Business Analysis, agile manifesto, agile requirements, Agile Workshops, Business Analysis, Business Analysis Training, Business Value, collaboration, Deep Agile, Deep Agile Games, Facilitation, games, Learning, retrospectives, Workshops
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