More and more organisations are adopting agile techniques and approaches. Agile adoption brings about changes to processes, approaches and roles, and some BAs can be left wondering where they fit into this new world. Lynda Girvan will discuss what it means to be an Agile BA and how as an Agile BA you can bring value to your organisation through having the right mindset and a comprehensive toolkit. In her talk, Lynda will discuss: - What is an Agile BA? - Lean, system and service thinking - Shortening the loop from requirement to delivery - How Agile BAs add value and contribute to development teams

1. Agile Business Analysis
Making projects work
Lynda Girvan

2. Introduction

3. What is analysis?
Analysis is not just desirable, it is essential!
The ability to:
• Understand the problem
• Uncover links and trends
• Dig for information and facts
• Evaluate data
• Ask why?
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4. What is agile analysis?
Agile value &
principles
Business
thinking
Agile
analyst
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5. The big question
What problem are
we trying to solve?
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6. Service thinking
Who is the customer? What is service? What is value?
Someone whose life is
improved through
experiencing
the service
The application of
capability for the
benefit of another
entity – the customer
The beneficial
outcome from a
service that is co-
created with the
customer
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7. Value co-creation
Collaborating
to develop
something that
offers value
Collaborating to
ensure that
value is realised
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8. “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a
framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things.”
Peter Senge,2006
Systems thinking
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9. Underutilisation
of skills
Transport Inventory Motion
Waiting Overproduction Over-
processing
Defects
Lean thinking – 8 wastes
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10. To be Agile the analyst needs to….
 Apply business thinking
 Understand their customer
 Understand the problem
 Do just enough, just in time
 Facilitate collaboration
 Extend toolkit as necessary
Agile business analysts need to…………..
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11. Shorten the loop from this….
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12. …….to this
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13. Provide business context
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14. Visualise requirements through
prototypes
• Model
the
solution
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15. Visualise the backlog – story mapping
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16. Continuous analysis
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17. The T-shaped business analyst
Breadth
Depth
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18. How agile business analysis
brings value
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19. Lynda Girvan