Most organizations are experimenting with agile. Their experiments often lead to big questions about requirements practices: Are there requirements in agile? If so, who is responsible for planning the agile requirements approach? How do elicitation techniques change?...
Are your user stories effective? Whether you’ve been using user stories for years or you’re just diving in, it’s important to regularly reflect on the value user stories bring to your requirements and delivery process. Take a look at the questions...
I’ve been to a few of the big business agility conferences in recent years. The conferences highlight the benefits and challenges of bringing agility into non-IT environments. One conference had a unique format that included several sets of 20-minute “TED style”...
The Agile Business Analyst role is still murky for many organizations. But the lack of clarity is a blessing in disguise. It gives BAs an amazing opportunity to advocate for themselves and help leaders understand how to deploy BA skills to serve agile projects. If you...
It is true that “working software is the primary measure of progress” in Agile, but that is not our only measure. The Agile Principles also call us to reflect on how to become more effective. As business analysts and product owners, we should care about metrics that...
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...
