Ba ,agile and career prospects

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Who is Business Analyst
Why Agile
Agile brushup
Traditional vs Agile BA
How to define requirement
BA Career Paths in Agile Projects
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Why Agile
Agile brushup

BUSINESS ANALYST
The business analyst is who understands
business problems and opportunities in
the context of the requirements and
recommends solutions that enable the
organization to achieve its goals.
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS (IIBA)
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Why Agile
Agile brushup

WE’RE BUILDING SOFTWARE NOT
CARS
CUSTOMIZATION NOT

WATERFALL REQUIREMENTS FAILURE –
DATA POINTS
What percentage of overall project time is spent gathering, elaborating, and
communicating product requirements?
What percentage of requirements, as originally defined, change during the
course of the project?
What percentage of features, as ultimately delivered, are rarely or never used
by the product’s end-users?
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50%
35%
65%
A Standish Group studyResearch done on various project run from 1985 -2010 in
software industry.

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Why Agile
Agile brushup

AGILE MANIFESTO
While items on the right may be necessary,
we value the items on the left.
Source: www.agilemanifesto.org

WORKING SOFTWARE = PROGRESS
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Sprint 1
Sprint 1
Sprint 1
Sprint 1
Requirements(a)
Requirements (B)
Requirements (C)
Requirements (D)
Design
Design
Design
Design
Development
Development
Development
Development
Test
Test
Test
Test
WATERFALLAPPROACH
Waitingtocompleteallrequirements
beforemovingtodesignand
development

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Why Agile
Agile brushup

WATERFALL VS AGILE BA
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Waterfall Agile
Deliverable “Signed Off”
Requirements
Epics, Features ,User Stories etc.,
that meets current business needs
Engagement BA is separate from the
development team
BA always part of the team.
Solution definition Functional BA helps in fuctional, architectural
and technical solution
development.
Business Value Late realization Regular realization
Flexibility Focus on delivering
requirements in full
and is inflexible
There is always room for
negotiation as long as the
business need is met

TASK OF BUSINESS ANALYST
Involved in Planning, Analysis, Design, Build, Test, Deployment
and Review
User story Writing with Product Owner
Analysis of Product Backlog Items
Clarification with PO on Acceptance Criteria (AC)
Story preparation for refinement session for next sprint
Preparing system demo or User Interface's (UI) with the PO &
team
Clarifying and defining User Experience (UX) criteria with the
PO / team.
Building Conditions of Satisfaction with the PO; building
scenarios for testing
Looking forward at releases and scope of next release.

BA ROLE CHANGE IN AGILE
BA will not work in isolation
BA will always in constant flux with product owner, testers,
developers, architects
A change in mindset is required- same work, different tools/format
/techniques/physical environment
Learn to keep the requirements slices to a bare minimum necessary
until it is just about to be developed
Connect the development team to the ultimate sources of business
needs
Get the clients closely involved in the development of the project
You are not the sole custodian of all the requirements, you are part of
a self-organizing team

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Why Agile
Agile brushup

EXAMPLE OF AGILE REQUIREMENT
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As a <Product Owner> I want <to achieve a goal> Epic
Feature
User stories
Tasks
As a <user> I want <something> So that <I get to do
this>
As a customer, I want to be able
to
As a customer, I want to be able
to
Prepare FA
Development
Task
Prepare FA
Development
Task

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT
User story
Tasks
THEME Name (Geography)
As back office, I want to perform efficient liquidity management by
using the available cash or funding.
Prepare FA
Development Task
Epic
Testing Task
Softwaredevelopmentforabank
(Part of a
Sprint)

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Why Agile
Agile brushup

BA CAREER PATHS IN AGILE
PROJECTS
Lead BA Large
program
Distributed
teams
Product
developme
nt
Work as
Product
managerMultiple
product
owner
reporting
him
Part of
portfolio
team
Team that
manages
business
horizontals
Stakeholder
management
s
Work as
proxy
Product
owner
Manage
teams in
various
geographies
Work as
Product
owner
Work as
Scrum
Master
Work as
team
member in
scrum team.
Each product
owner is a
part of
scrum team

“DO SCRUM BY THE BOOK UNTIL
YOU GET GOOD AT IT
– THEN ADJUST”
- MIKE COHN
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REFERENCES
SECTION NAME
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International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) https://www.iiba.org/
The Agile Business Analyst –John Parker -EnfocusSolutions

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