During agile training sessions, the most common question I get is, “Can you PLEASE just tell me what I need to document as an Agile BA?” So, let’s clear up this up once and for all! The answer is NOT simply user stories and acceptance criteria, or a traditional...
Even if your team isn’t agile, you can start applying an agile mindset to your work. Here are three ways to get started: 1) Focus on the user and customer experience. Discover and really focus on user goals. Determine what your users want or need when they interact...
January tends to be a time of optimism and anticipation for me. I like the feeling of a clean slate. It gives me the freedom to recalculate the future and set new goals. Just as we make New Year’s resolutions to get to better outcomes in our personal lives, we can...
Is project documentation wearing you down into a zombie-like state? Are you spending all your time updating requirements and managing sign-off instead of helping your team think strategically about the value you are providing to end-users and the organization? In a...
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...
I typically use my blogs to offer tips and tricks for business analyst and product owner roles, but in recent months, I have been hearing about and seeing several BAs stepping into ScrumMaster/Iteration Lead roles. Is this a trend? Well, I won’t go that far, but...
