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Should Agile Teams Have a Definition of Ready?

Leading Agile

In The Dangers of a Definition of Ready , Agile thought leader Mike Cohn expresses a concern that is shared by many in the community: That by establishing strict rules about what information must be provided before a development team can take on a backlog item, we risk backsliding into a linear process model.

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Your Next Process Model’s Degree of Abstraction

Modern Analyst

Any process model is so much more than a flowchart. Process modeling is one of the core competencies of any capable business analyst. What any process model needs to communicate will vary from one project to the next. It is an abstraction of current or future real-world operations. budgeting, scoping).