Tight timelines put pressure on the entire project team. When the project plan dictates unreasonable durations, BAs become document dispensers focused on cranking out BRDs or cramming user stories into JIRA. PM pressure often forces BAs to focus on documents instead...
What are you hanging on to? What do you need to purge from you project closet? Still fond of the requirements equivalent of MC Hammer parachute pants, jackets with shoulder pads, stirrups, acid wash jeans or jelly shoes? If you’ve been using the same requirements...
Is your project’s red-yellow-green status for requirements based on percentage complete of the requirements document? Or percentage complete of the JIRA stories documented? Maybe this is why requirements are taking so long! Is the focus on the status of the document...
When I sat down in a Canadian hotel room to write this article, I had a completely different topic in mind—a rant about the length of TSA pre-check lines and how bad processes make life miserable for users. But as I was writing, I became more and more distracted by...
Despite the fact that business analysis provides HUGE benefits to agile teams, it’s still rare to find teams that know how to maximize the agile BA role. The most successful teams create strong partnerships between business analysts and product owners. When...
