As a practitioner of mindset over methodology and value over process, the Agile2016 conference was a giant slice of professional heaven! The conference was put on by Agile Alliance, an organization that promotes the “Big Tent of Agile”–meaning agile...
Can you guess the number one question I get from requirements leaders across the world? Whether their team is agile, traditional or hybrid, whether their team has 2 members or 250, whether they are creating cutting edge products or maintaining legacy systems, their...
Most teams spend too much time on documentation. When planning, elicitation, and analysis are done well, documentation becomes simple and speedy. I think most people agree in theory. They are hungry to reduce documentation and speed up their requirements process, but...
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...
Agile planning includes more than just task-based planning before each iteration. It’s the value-driven planning associated with the product and the releases that truly boosts the efficiency/effectiveness of the team. Who builds an agile plan? In most cases, the...
