... John Business Analysis is a process. That process aims to extract all the relevant information from a number of people. As production manager, you are...
... Ron Good points. I do not think I was being clear. The real value of the business analysis process is its ability to ask questions. It can answer them, but...
Hello, chrismatts1968. On Monday, June 1, 2009, at 8:42:24 AM, you ... Yes ... ... I think I understand this. I believe I'd call it Big Analysis Up ... That...
... These tools ain't hard to master. It is more attitude than anything. Which is why 97% of the BAs that cannot do it deserve to fall foul of Darwinism....
... Depends how long it takes you to do. We do it in a few hours. Is that "Big"? ... Its not an assumption. More my experience over the last decade or so. Its...
... The latter is interesting. One of the difficulties coaching a new Agile team is teaching them to develop "slicewise" or "sashimi style". That is: given...
Side note... ... Since it appears such movement creates a bottleneck (someone who spends time creating / collecting what a business expert would know), a lean...
... I think you should use the phrase "business coach" instead of having to explain that what you mean by "business analyst" is not what other people mean....
... Dan What is the Scrum meaning of ROI? I assume Scrum has one otherwise you cannot maximise it. "elicit the right information from the stakeholders"... Like...
... Andy Pols and I proposed the role "Agile Business Coach" a few years ago. When we discussed it at ADC v2, Americans pointed out that the term coach in the...
It is fairly well agreed upon in the arena of product development (which I consider software development to be a subset of) that market risk (defining the...
It does, but it's not very tasty. I think it's just maximizing business value (a subjective thing) for the amount of effort the team spends. Since the latter...
When Alan and I worked together we talked about this topic a lot, and we generally agree on it. My only quibble with his analysis below is that only some of...
I don't think we even quibblingly disagree here ;) As long as you agree infrastructure stories should always be linked to stories with business value. Alan...
Brian, I am very much in favor (and practitioner) of the slice-wise approach for the reasons you mentioned. We are running with Kanban now, but don't...
Hi Brian, 2009/6/1 Brian Marick <marick@...> ... What you have described is what I meant my "implementation and design feedback". The "slicewise"...
In a metaphorical, if not physical sense, yes. You shouldn't be doing anything unless it leads to business value. We used to discuss adoption of stories, but I...
Works for me. :-) Sent from my iPhone On 1 Jun 2009, at 21:59, Karl Scotland <kjscotland@...>...
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Within a largish J2EE project about 5 ago now, I switched my (sub)team to this process due to what I saw as an excessive amount of rework. Several people...
... Well, flattery is nice. "Business Analysis is a process." If I understand correctly from other posts in this thread (and related) that doesn't mean that...
... I hold that all stories should have clear business value, and I would not have expressed XP's view the way that Alan did. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com...
I know I'm pretty late on this - but how about something like: "Kanban is a process for making (local) value streams visible, limiting WIP, and ensuring that...
... Are people looking for a description, or for a definition, in this quest? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog Here is Edward Bear,...
All, I'd like to announce the creation of a new website: www.limitedwipsociety.org. The Limited WIP Society is intended to be the home of Kanban for the...
... This is the purpose of the MMF. It is the value that is being sought. It may have one or many stories. The value is normally in the output***. Any work on...
... Right. I would hope a business analyst is better than another person but based on experience Devs are normally better. A bit like you would hope a...
