Discusses trends in the business analysis and agile environments, how these two areas align and promote each other, and identifies areas of responsibility and ownership for the business analyst (BA). The book is designed for BAs of all levels, from all types of environments.
This book is designed for business stakeholders and business analysts of all levels, from all types of environments, and project managers, and agile scrum masters, coaches, product owners and technical team members who can produce benefit for projects from effectively engaging business analysis and establishing clear boundaries and rules of engagement with those who act as business analysts.
Features:
-Applies concepts that are aligned with traditional and agile project management and business analysis professional standards, the Business Analysis for Practitioners A Practice Guide, the PMBOK Guide, the BABOK Guide, and the PMI-PBA, CBAP, CCBA and PMI-ACP and Scrum Master professional certifications
-Discusses challenges related to organizational change, team performance, processes, corporate governance, and alignment that take place as the result of introducing agile approaches to an organization, and provides solutions
-Reviews the role the business analyst in agile environments and demonstrates the benefits business analysis can bring to enhance agile projects' performance by complementing team's areas of responsibility
-Provides a practical approach to addressing the intersections among the various agile roles, and the ability to maximize each role's contribution, with the added value provided by the agile business analyst
-Presents agile concepts, principles and best practices and illustrates the flow of work and responsibilities between the business analyst and the agile team in the process of eliciting, documenting, analyzing, communicating, validating and managing requirements, including the application of modeling techniques to enhance the ability to produce good agile requirements
