Bring Your Requirements Practices Out of the ’80s!

Bring Your Requirements Practices Out of the ’80s!

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 PM/BA Collaboration a Pressure Cooker?

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...

Great Things Happen When BAs and POs Become BFFs

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...

What Can Aerobics Teach us About Collaboration?

Are you old enough to remember the aerobics craze in the ’80s? Denise Austin donned her leotard and leg warmers, and Richard Simmons sweat to the oldies on The Love Boat in his sparkling tank tops and white crew socks. Whether you went to a class at the gym or...
What Happens When You Don’t Have a Product Vision?

What Happens When You Don’t Have a Product Vision?

I’ve given Agile Product Ownership talks at a few conferences and the response has been great. BAs and BA leaders are beginning to see their connection to product ownership functions, but they are also discovering that there is a huge gap in the industry about what...