Agile Grows up: The Agile Business Analyst
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The business analyst role seems conspicuously missing from most agile methods. Do agile methods make business analyst an obsolete role? Certainly not! But how do you integrate what is sometimes portrayed as a plodding and documentation driven role into an agile project? This tutorial provides participants practical guidance for how the business analyst integrates and collaborates with all members of the team. During this workshop the participant will learn how to construct and evolve an agile business analysis process that is appropriate for their specific project environment.
This workshop uses a combination of lecture, question and answer, with group exercises, the objective of which is to help participants analyze their project’s context and begin designing an appropriate business analysis process. Participants will have an opportunity to share their ideas with other tutorial participants.
- Understand the role of the business analyst in agile software development teams
- Understand the difference between user stories and use cases, and other requirements artifacts
- Learn strategies for iteratively and incrementally developing requirements.
- Know how to create, grow, and evolve an effective agile business analysis process.
- Know the difference between coordination practices and software project governance practices
- Know how to leverage the agile software development process to improve the quality and responsiveness of the business analysis process.
- Use the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) to inform the design of a scalable agile process.
