Session Description Many organizations use digital transformation as a strategy to succeed in today’s complex environment. People skilled in business analysis can play a key role in applying digital technologies to create and improve business processes. Some organizations don’t value effective business analysis in digital transformation, while others do. To ignite your potential, you can use your business analysis skills to help any digital transformation succeed. Attend this workshop to learn how you can contributes to successful digital transformations. You’ll find out how to tell if you’re ..read more

Publisher: KBPMedia Editor: DeAnna Burghart Edition: 1st Available in: EPub, Kindle, PDF, Paperback Published: April 26, 2020 Get a paperback copy How To Be An Agile Business Analyst is about applying your business analysis skills in an agile manner. Keep in mind that the agile here describes how you approach business analysis. This book helps business analysts be an effective member of a team working in an agile fashion. It explains how to add value to your team and how to apply your business analysis skills. It will help you understand how you can use your business analysis skills to ..read more

Overview Effective product ownership focuses your team on outcome over output, builds shared understanding, and makes sure decisions get made. These activities are key to building the right thing and not building things that aren’t needed. When your teams are separated from each other, or your product owners are separated from your teams, those activities become more difficult, and more important. This webinar shares 6 tips you can use to practice effective product ownership in a distributed situation. Watch this webinar to find out how to: Build shared understanding so that everyone knows w ..read more

Overview Agile. Scrum. Lean. SAFe. Buzzwords to be certain, and also powerful ideas that have changed the landscape in which you and most other business analysts find yourselves today. How can you position yourself to be effective and ultimately successful in this environment? Join Kent McDonald to find out seven things business analysts need to know about agile and how you can use that knowledge to thrive as a business analyst. You’ll learn what an agile mindset is and how you can adopt one. You’ll find out how you can apply analysis practices you already use in a way that will make you the ..read more

Ask anyone to describe agile, and inevitably they’ll use terms like sprint, product backlog, product owner, and sprint planning. Notice a trend? Those are all terms specific to Scrum that have become, for better or worse, part of the ubiquitous language of agile. The reason for that is simple. The Scrum framework has won the market share wars as the most commonly used framework when organizations adopt agile. Why Agile != Scrum matters That popularity leads many people to conclude that agile = Scrum. In reality, Scrum is one of many frameworks that you can use as a starting point to approach w ..read more

Have you ever been in a meeting where the thought crossed your mind that “this meeting should have been an email.” There are plenty of meetings that fit that description. So many in fact that a cottage industry has grown up offering swag to celebrate the fact. (This is an affiliate link. Since I didn’t come up with the idea of putting a snide comment on a coffee mug, I thought why not get something out of pointing everyone else to it.) But in order for an email to effectively replace a meeting, people actually have to read and pay attention to the email you send out. Just like you’re reading ..read more

What Is Story Splitting Story splitting is the act of examining a large backlog item and splitting it into smaller backlog items that provide value and can be delivered in a short time frame. You can consider story splitting to be a planning technique that helps you organize your backlog into manageable chunks. You can also think of it as an analysis technique that helps you understand a particular backlog item through the act of splitting it into smaller, valuable backlog items. Story splitting also goes by the name story slicing. Note: While the name story splitting is derived from splitting ..read more

What Is Example Mapping Example Mapping is a backlog refinement technique that helps you structure your team’s conversation around a backlog item. The conversation focuses on drawing out all of the relevant acceptance criteria (or rules), related scenarios and pertinent questions associated with the backlog item you are discussing. An example mapping session identifies: Examples that can lead to acceptance tests. Acceptance criteria that indicate agreed upon constraints about the scope of the story Questions about scenarios where your team isn’t clear on expected behavior. Assumptions you’re ..read more

What Is Usability Testing Usability testing is a way to test how intuitive the design, user flows and content is in your product, app or website. This form of testing consists of asking real people who are similar to potential users to perform various tasks on your product. You can use the information gained from this exercise to identify opportunities for improvement in your product’s design, user flows and content. Examples Here is a collection of examples on how to test the usability of your product in a variety of scenarios. Usability testing lessons learned When I was the product owner fo ..read more

What Is A Sprint Review The Sprint Review is a discussion at the end of a sprint intended to review what the team accomplished in the sprint (including demonstrating done functionality), get feedback, and determine what, if any changes should happen in the team’s plan moving forward. These changes usually consist of revisions to the product backlog or guidance into what the team does in the subsequent sprint. An Example The exact agenda of a sprint review depends on what your stakeholders expect and any standards your organization has. Here’s an example Sprint Review agenda for a team I worked ..read more