Slides from a presentation given by Lynda Girvan to a meeting of the North branch of IIBA UK in Newcastle on 12 October 2017

1. Agile & Business Analysis
Lynda Girvan

2. Introduction

3. What is Analysis?
Investigate ‘the
mess’
Establish information
and facts
Uncover links,
patterns and trends
Distinguish causes
from symptoms
Assess impacts
Understand and
define problems
Analysis is not just desirable, it is essential!
The ability to:

4. What is agile analysis?
Agile value &
principles
Business
thinking
Agile
analyst

5. Service Thinking
Who is the customer? What is service? What is value?
Someone who’s
life is improved
through the
experiences of
the service
The experience
someone has
when engaging
with the service or
organisation
Something that
is decided by
the customer,
and only the
customer.

6. Value co-creation
Collaborating to
develop
something that
offers value
Collaborating to
ensure that value
is realised
Value proposition
Value expectation

7. “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It
is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than
things.”
Peter Senge, 2006
Systems thinking

8. Underutilisation
of skills
Transport Inventory Motion
Waiting Overproduction Over-
processing
Defects
Lean thinking – 8 wastes

9. 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
In the requirements space agile analysts need to…………..

10. Shorten the loop from this….

11. …….to this

12. Visualise the work

13. Prototype
• Model
the
solution

14. Visualise the backlog – Story
mapping

15. How agile business analysis
bring value

16. Lynda Girvan