Agile Business Analysis discusses trends in the business analysis and agile environments, how these two areas align and promote each other, and identifies areas of responsibility and ownership for the business analyst (BA). It triggers readers to review the role of the BA in their environments and shows how to create value in agile environments through the introduction of business analysis skills into agile project processes and activities.
Readers will learn ways BAs can provide support to agile projects through modeling techniques; documentation; communication, meetings, and reporting; governance; building user stories, elaborating requirements, and facilitating the estimating process; ensuring effective application of lessons, improvements, and efficiencies; and much more.
The book is designed for BAs of all levels, from all types of environments, and for agile practitioners, including Scrum Masters, coaches, project managers, product owners, and technical team members who interact with BAs on their projects.
Key Features
- Details concepts that are aligned with the PMBOK® Guide, Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide, the BABOK® Guide, and the PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP, CBAP, and Scrum Master professional certifications
- Proposes solutions to challenges around attempting to introduce agile methodologies to an organization, including criteria to selecting the right approach, organizational change, team performance, agile processes, corporate governance, and organizational alignment
- Discusses how agile projects’ performance can benefit from business analysis skills, as well as the enhanced role the BA can have in agile environments
- Demonstrates potential gains the agile team can make toward maximizing the benefits of agile ceremonies and work products by complementing the team’s areas of responsibility with focused involvement by a BA
- Provides a practical approach to addressing the intersections among the various agile roles and the ability to maximize each role’s contribution with the added value provided by the agile business analyst
- Illustrates the flow of work and responsibilities between the BA and the agile team in the process of eliciting, documenting, analyzing, communicating, validating, and managing requirements, including the application of modeling techniques to enhance the ability to produce good agile requirements
- Explores an approach to analyzing organizational readiness to agile projects, including an assessment of the governance structure, and provides techniques to bridge any gaps that are discovered through the analysis
- Introduces concepts for performing agile documentation with a focus on reducing waste, challenging existing processes and templates, and ensuring that the documentation still meets compliance and regulatory constraints
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Agile and the Agile Process
Chapter 2: Agile Challenges
Chapter 3: Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 4: Agile Requirements and User Stories
Chapter 5: Agile Documentation
Chapter 6: The BA’s Role in Planning and Estimating
Chapter 7: The BA and the Agile Events and Work Products
Chapter 8: Testing and Solution Evaluation
Chapter 9: A Day in the Life of the Agile BA
Chapter 10: Moving Forward
