Analysts Corner

MAY 24, 2023

A typical BA workflow for an agile project When I was trained in Business Analysis, I always tried to join the pieces I had learnt. Hence, this article will walk you through a typical workflow for a BA in an Agile/Scrum project. But I got the fundamental idea when I actually experienced it in my job role.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations are constantly seeking ways to enhance their agility and adaptability. One methodology that has gained significant traction in recent years is Scrum, a framework for Agile project management.

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Agilemania

MAY 3, 2022

Agile product management is the most preferred approach to developing new products, services, or solutions. It should come as no surprise since the Agile adoption rate increased from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. . How does agile adoption start? And, how do you start learning Agile? Through Agile certifications! .

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Business Analysts

JUNE 1, 2022

by Business Analysis, To develop valuable software, inevitably, someone needs to understand the business needs and translate them so that someone can materialise it into an executable outcome. The focus for this blog will be on how the Business Analyst supports the role of the Product Owner of software development and delivery.

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Vitality Chicago

JANUARY 2, 2022

Are you looking for some great agile articles? The Best Agile Blogs of 2021. #1 1 – The 5 Best Agile Books for 2021. . #1 1 – The 5 Best Agile Books for 2021. Agile Coaches. Key Takeaways: If I could offer one piece of advice to agile practitioners it would be this – read! Product Owners.

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Agilemania

MAY 18, 2021

As a part of the Scrum team, the Product Owner is a defined accountability in Scrum Guide. As defined the Scrum Guide: “The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.” The decision-making lies with the Product Owner.

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Agilemania

JULY 20, 2022

It’s no secret that SAFe® is the talk of the Agile town these days and there is a huge demand for SAFe® Program Consultants (SPCs) to be catalysts of SAFe® implementation. They help guide the enterprise from concept development through implementation and beyond. Why is the SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) Important?

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My Agile Partner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In the world of software development and project management, the term “Agile” has become synonymous with adaptability, collaboration, and delivering customer value. Let’s delve into the definition and concept of an Agile team. Let’s delve into the definition and concept of an Agile team.

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Agilemania

MARCH 10, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework is rising in popularity. And to further testify the benefits of SAFe, 37% of the organizations use SAFe as per the 15th State of Agile Report. The path to these SAFe jobs are the SAFe certifications offered by Scaled Agile. . Why and how business agility is the need of the hour for enterprises?

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Leading Agile

JULY 26, 2023

The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, agile methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. Is the Agile industry in a rut? Is the Agile industry in a rut? Everyone knows Agile works.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide organizations in scaling lean and agile practices. SAFe endorses alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. Agile software development. SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) 5.1. Certification.

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is a functional requirement This is a non-functional requirement This is not a requirement for a system This is a constraint for the system A Business Analyst has joined a project under maintenance and found that there is no requirements register to maintain requirements. Which of the following is true about this requirement?

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

From not being able to manage inter-team dependencies to handle multiple sources of requirements to ensuring alignment between teams in both business & technical to delivering an increment or increasing value delivery, the challenges are a zillion. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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Watermark Learning

JUNE 9, 2021

In our previous blogs, we covered what Agile business analysis is and how business analysts add value in an Agile environment. In this final blog, we talk about how to leverage Business Analysis skills in each of the five Scrum Events. Scrum Events. The Sprint. Sprint Planning.

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Agilemania

MARCH 3, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight framework through which people can address complex problems while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest quality. . Scrum is based on 3 pillars of empirical process control that are difficult to master for many teams. Scrum has 3 roles that are central to its success-.

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Vitality Chicago

AUGUST 30, 2020

Eighty percent of people who are using agile today use some flavor of the Scrum Framework. As you can imagine, there is a lot of variance in how Scrum is applied, and some people who use Scrum in ways that are not recognizable. If only there was a standard for Scrum. If only there was a standard for Scrum.

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Vitality Chicago

JANUARY 1, 2022

I love books and most of the books I have today are on Agile, Scrum, or related topics like Lean, leadership or teamwork. To be effective as an Agile Trainer and Coach, you really need to have a deep understanding of a wide range of topics. Book Summary for Fixing Your Scrum. Let’s dive in.

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Watermark Learning

MAY 28, 2021

Welcome to the second in a series of three blogs in which we discuss Agile Business Analysis. In our previous blog, we talked about what Agile business analysis is and the Agile mindset. In today’s blog, we will take some time to cover business analysis skills that can be leveraged in an Agile Environment.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

.” and the Product Manager is accountable for those activities.Let’s dive into understanding a few roles that have created a few confusions in Agile Product Management. Who is a Product Manager, Product Owner, Project Manager, and Business Analyst? The Scrum Guide, November 2020. ” ?

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Agilemania

MAY 18, 2021

As a part of the Scrum team, the Product Owner is a defined accountability in Scrum Guide. As defined the Scrum Guide: “The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.” The decision-making lies with the Product Owner.

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

You might be wondering who is a Scrum Master and what is the role played by him or her in the organization. To state it simply, Scrum is a framework that facilitates teamwork. All work that is delivered to the client under the Scrum Framework is completed by specialized Scrum Teams. What is Scrum?

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

You might be wondering who is a Scrum Master and what is the role played by him or her in the organization. To state it simply, Scrum is a framework that facilitates teamwork. All work that is delivered to the client under the Scrum Framework is completed by specialized Scrum Teams. What is Scrum?

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The Uncommon League

MARCH 17, 2020

The past decade saw an explosion in demand for business analysts. The role of business analyst is constantly evolving along with the way we run our businesses. To highlight the demand and value that BAs provide, Amazon is focusing on upskilling workers with business analyst abilities.

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The BAWorld

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In Agile and Scrum, the Product Owner has a vital role in accountability. And even if there are few specific instructions in the Scrum Guide for effective Product Ownership, the position is still vital for successful Agile and Scrum teams to function well. And later it was adopted by other agile practices.

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My Agile Partner

JULY 8, 2020

Do you want to test yourself in scrum? It’s really important to know if you have understood the subtleties of scrum [Scrum exercise corrected]. Indeed, scrum is not so easy to really understand. It’s the moment to learn all the subtleties of this agile framework. Scrum exercise corrected.

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The BAWorld

JULY 18, 2022

In this blog, we take a look at the AAC Certification Journey by Laks Vadavalli, who is a seasoned Business Analyst with 10+ years experience and overall 18 years of experience in the IT sector. Organizations around the world are adopting the agile approach and framework for executing their projects. Professional background.

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Netmind

JANUARY 13, 2021

Recently, I had a customer ask me for a way to understand how they were doing on their “agile journey”. And I do agree with some of the positions against them – as a business analyst by trade, my answer to a lot of direct questions has always been, “it depends”. They imply a “one-size-fits-all” approach to agility.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good?

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The BAWorld

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The business universe is full of ideas and their implementations. No business in the history of mankind has become vanguard without proper execution by the ones who portended the far stretched future of possibilities filled with uncertainty. techcanvass.com. There are multiple types of product owners in the industry.

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 28, 2020

User stories are extremely popular with agile teams and have become nearly synonymous with agile ways of working and Scrum, even though they are not part of the Scrum Framework. Unfortunately, when used incorrectly user stories are one of the worst ideas to come out of agile. and tell them to just write stories.

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Netmind

JANUARY 13, 2021

Recently, I had a customer ask me for a way to understand how they were doing on their “agile journey”. And I do agree with some of the positions against them – as a business analyst by trade, my answer to a lot of direct questions has always been, “it depends”. They imply a “one-size-fits-all” approach to agility.

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Cprime

AUGUST 16, 2021

I was involved in hiring a variety of positions such as Business Analysts, Software Engineers, Testers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, etc. Since each type of role requires a different set of skills, I usually compile a list of questions to ask when conducting interviews as a guide to help to evaluate a candidate.

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The BAWorld

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Agile Development Often Uses Stories To Indicate The Work That Must Be Done To Deliver A Feature. To satisfy the particular requirements of your team, you can add unique problem types to the preexisting list of standard issue types. Making smarter decisions and identifying trends with the use of this information is possible.

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Cprime

APRIL 27, 2022

As one analyst said, “Robots and AI aren’t taking our jobs because there aren’t enough developers to build them.”. Agile principles have found their way into most development teams in one form or another. For example, a company may have several Agile teams that adhere to Scrum or another formal agile workflow.

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MindsMapped

JULY 21, 2020

Role of a Business Analyst in SDLC. The accelerating pace of technology and business change is hard and comes with significant investment, challenges, and risks. As Business Analysts, we continue to explore opportunities to identify how our client and corresponding technology capabilities can continually evolve.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 29, 2024

Navigating the complexities of roles in product development, especially understanding the distinct functions of a Product Owner (PO) and a Business Analyst (BA), can be challenging. The Scrum Guide doesn’t define BA as an obligatory role for a Scrum team, but Business Analysis is certainly needed.

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IAG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Introduction to the Agile Project Framework. While relatively new to many, the Agile Business Consortium’s Agile Project Framework is actually the most established framework for agile project management in use today. The figure below shows the eight principles of Agile Project Management.

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