Business Analysis Agility: Solve the Real Problem, Deliver Real Value
Business Analysis Agility: Solve the Real Problem, Deliver Real Value by Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson
English | November 9, 2018 | ISBN: 0134847067 | True PDF | 272 pages | 12.2 MB
English | November 9, 2018 | ISBN: 0134847067 | True PDF | 272 pages | 12.2 MB
Agile business analysis, agile development. Now you can have both.Business Analysis Agility, written by two of the most renowned experts in the BA field, shows you a modern, more nimble approach to delivering solutions that precisely match the real needs of the customers.
The book shows you how to:
- Make agile development better
- Make business analysis better
- Solve the right problem – get the right result
- Don't waste time on things nobody will use
- Integrate business analyst with agile development
Despite our technological advances, the biggest problem is still the human one: how to correctly understand the customer's real problem, and how to ensure that your solution is correctly solving that problem.
- Finding the customer or user segments, and which of them yields the best, and the earliest value
- Using value propositions to uncover the real needs of the customers
- Using safe-to-fail probes to ensure that any proposed solution solves the right problem and delivers the right value.
- Deploying an iterative approach to discovering the real problem, and progressively feeding the right stories to the delivery activity.
- Understanding that by discovering the right needs and solving the right problem you deliver real value to your customer and your sponsor.
- Doing all this quickly
The Robertsons' approach to analytical thinking is crucial to anyone who wants to build better software in agile environments: analysts, developers, team leads, project managers, software architects, and other team members and stakeholders at most levels of experience.