BA Squared

AUGUST 16, 2021

Agile has been around now for 20 years (agile as a term in software), whereas the practices have been around much longer. After 20 years, there seems to be continued conversation about the BA role on agile teams. If Agile teams don’t have BAs they still do analysis, they have to! The question is how good are they at it?

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Nimble vs Agile: why is a unique term not enough? I recently came across an article (1) with a concept I didn’t know about yet: NIMBLE : an organization’s ability to navigate unpredictable business environments and operationalize innovation through a scalable ability to understand and respond to change with precision and speed.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Another year has started with a lot of great articles in our Analyst’s corner. Requirements elicitation : we will learn how the use cases are still relevant in the age of agile, the importance of requirements traceability, and best practices in requirements analysis. This article explores some positive aspects of this scenario.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Extra-list First and foremost, a business analysis professional MUST start with the Agile Extension of the BABoK® and the Guide to Product Ownership Analysis (POA). These are official knowledge guides from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) that focus on agility and product ownership.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 16, 2023

Time management simplified Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash So far For those of you who have read my articles here so far, I have written on a broad range of business analysis techniques. Plan for no more than 3 top tasks for a day, and make sure I complete those during my most productive hours.

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InfoQ Articles

JUNE 16, 2021

This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. By Prashant Hegde.

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InfoQ Articles

APRIL 25, 2022

One bias especially relevant to the estimation process is the planning fallacy. This article explores the planning fallacy and how we are vulnerable to it. It explains how you can reduce your vulnerability to this fallacy through playing a planning game that has been specifically devised to help mitigate it.

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BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Agility for any organization is the ability to stay alert and be prepared to act on any decision almost instantly. Agile software development is a collaborative process between and within project teams with an ingrained set of values and principles for software development.

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BizAcuity

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agility for any organization is the ability to stay alert and be prepared to act on any decision almost instantly. Agile software development is a collaborative process between and within project teams with an ingrained set of values and principles for software development.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 24, 2023

A typical BA workflow for an agile project When I was trained in Business Analysis, I always tried to join the pieces I had learnt. Hence, this article will walk you through a typical workflow for a BA in an Agile/Scrum project. Many times, it also occurs that the initial release planning has to be revised as you approach it.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Like a long and winding mountain road, the journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. In this series of articles , we want to share that map: a clear description of what you should expect to see across all five phases of Agile maturity. Phase One – The Agile Team. Agile Training.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

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Business Analyst Learnings

JULY 18, 2019

I tend to describe the agile approach as a way of working; A targeted way of working that allows us to make changes, respond to customers’ needs and manage uncertainty with minimal delays, and without needing to wade through “red tape”. This is the first of a series of articles on this subject.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Whizlabs

JUNE 23, 2021

By the end of this article, you will know the benefits of Whizlabs annual subscription plan. And the details of various Whizlabs learning resources that would be available in this annual subscription plan. How Are Subscription Plans Effective? Enroll Now: Whizlabs Subscription Plan.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider. An Agile Leadership Team is in place.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A view from business analysis reference guides It’s not new that a good application of business analysis practices (traditional or agile) helps Product Owners improve their day-to-day work. This article explores practices proposed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) that make Product Owners excel in their work.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Cprime

MARCH 19, 2021

So, what does a typical day in life look like for an Agile Coach? Agile Coaches talk and listen to people all day long. Agile Coaches thrive on change and navigate dysfunction with ease – no two days are the same. Check out this Employee Spotlight on Cprime Agile Coach, Denise Joseph! Progress finally!) It’s about 11 a.m.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The strategies in use to ensure a successful DevOps implementation plan. In this article, drawing on our experience in DevOps practices, we first define DevOps. And finally, we highlight the six strategies to a successful DevOps implementation plan. Next, we give reasons why you need to use DevOps in your organization.

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Business Bullet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Introduction When you think of Agile, do you picture a chaotic environment where teams work without a clear plan, simply reacting to whatever comes next? There’s a common misconception that using Agile means abandoning objectives and planning, leaving projects to be completed whenever they’re “ready.”.

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InfoQ Articles

JUNE 7, 2022

Organizational change doesn’t happen overnight, but that doesn’t mean improving agility is impossible. Regardless of the agile approach, by creating an island of agility, we can set a course to agility while the rest of the organization catches up.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 23, 2022

For instance, the branding and marketing experts of the Superbowl would benefit from big data when planning the promotion and organization before it takes place. Kenneth Taylor wrote an insightful article on the ways that big data is transforming the Superbowl. It is also how a skate manufactures may begin to offer wide roller skates.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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InfoQ Articles

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this article, we will present our approach for analysing agile systems as networks of queues and how we have used it to analyse 926 projects in the Public Jira Dataset. Finally, we will present our planned next phase of research. We explain how you can measure the Stability Metric (SM) for your queues.

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Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

I am frequently asked about the best books for learning about agile and Scrum. I have nearly 100 books on agile-related topics and there are so many new agile books published every year that it is difficult to keep up! As we head into 2021, I thought I would share my lists of best agile books. Agile Coaches.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Vitality Chicago

JANUARY 2, 2022

Are you looking for some great agile articles? Listed below are the 10 most popular articles on our website this past year. The Best Agile Blogs of 2021. #1 1 – The 5 Best Agile Books for 2021. . #1 1 – The 5 Best Agile Books for 2021. Agile Coaches. Look no further because here they are!

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Cprime

MARCH 14, 2023

That’s where agile IT service management (ITSM) comes in. By combining the flexibility of agile methodologies with the structure of ITSM processes, agile ITSM allows you to respond quickly to changing business needs while maintaining a high level of service quality. So how exactly does the combination of agile and ITSM work?

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BA Squared

JANUARY 5, 2021

Take some time to plan your year! I know this sounds funny, but just like product and project planning, we need to have a vision and intention for the year. Without a dedicated plan, everyone else’s vision and priorities will rule your time and energy. A bit of planning can help you serve others while looking out for yourself!

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you and your teams pursue the craft of creative knowledge work during an Agile transformation.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, however, you might wonder how Disney implements its agile framework at such a large scale. This article will discuss how Disney can use the Scaled Agile Framework® to address the challenges a large organization will face when implementing it in its software development process. The movie business calls it Storyboarding.

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Vitality Chicago

APRIL 29, 2022

I try to do what I can to keep up with the new agile books being released so that I can maintain the popular blog, The 5 Best Agile Books of 2021. Doing Agile Righ t was published in 2020 by three principals of the consulting firm Bain & Company. Those are not household names in agile circles though I have heard of Rigby.

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Agile Business Consortium

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Facilitation is scarcely described in the manual and this article will present it in a nutshell and explain how it can be used successfully in projects. This means that the Project Manager (as in the case of estimating other tasks in the project) should use the help of an experienced Facilitator in planning workshops. in Poland).

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BA Times

JUNE 15, 2021

The concept of story points will be well known to those working in an Agile environment but, in my […]. The post Points Make Problems appeared first on Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs. ‘Points make prizes’ was the catchphrase of a UK game show called ‘Play Your Cards Right’.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 15, 2022

In this article, we will talk about nine ways location data can help you excel in retail. As the current business world has changed rapidly owing to technology and other advancements, the most agile merchants have thrived and even prospered, typically by employing data-driven tactics. That’s all for this article.

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