The Agile Business Analyst

Sept 10, 2013
The Agile
Business
Analyst
Maureen McVey, CBAP
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Head of Learning & Development, IIBA
16+ BA Experience
I.T. industry for over 25 years.
20+ Experience in learning and development
Founding member of IIBA
Industry experience: banking, finance, insurance,
government, policing and manufacturing
Accountable to business analysts in the areas of
competency and career development
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Today’s Session
• 5 minutes Introduction
• 40-45 minutes presentation
• 15-20 minutes questions
• What are the key differences in
these different styles of Agile?
• Why are blended roles so
important in an Agile project?
• How are the Knowledge Areas
applied in an Agile project
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Margaret Dessypris Thomas, PMP, CSP, CBAP
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Margaret Dessypris Thomas is a Manager with
CapTech Consulting in Richmond, VA. She has
over 12 years of experience in the health care
IT industry, working with an array of
technologies in web development, service oriented
architectures, and business intelligence. Her business
focus includes process improvement, operations
management, and organizational change management.
In these IT and business projects she has served as lead
business analyst, project manager, and scrum master.
Margaret earned a B.S. in Information Technology from
Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Information Systems from
VCU. She holds PMP, CSP, and CBAP certifications.
Q&A: How to Participate
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to share your questions.
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Margaret Dessypris Thomas
Maureen McVey
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The Agile Analyst
September 10 2013
IT Management
Consulting
Systems Integration
Data Management
The Agile Analyst
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Variety in Agile implementations
Three distinct approaches to the
BA role
When in the agile process do
the BA practices take place?
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Agile/Scrum Variety
in Projects
KanBan
KanBan
Work Teams
Scrum
Scrum-But
Waterfall /
Iterative
Pure Agile
Iterative
BRUF
Practical
Agile
Iterative
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Scrum - Who are the
analysts?
www.realmdigital.co.za
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Scrum - Who are the
analysts?
www.realmdigital.co.za
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Scrum Approach Using
KanBan
http://cdn.tutsplus.com/net.tutsplus.com/authors/jeremymcpeak/scru
m-to-lean-kanban-board-typical.png
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Analysis Teams in KanBan
Project or Program Team
Analysis
Team A
Development
Team 1
Development
Team 2
Analysis
Team B
Testing
Team
Development
Team 3
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Three views on the BA role
BA = PO
• Product Owner
is responsible
for the activities
associated with
the BA role
• Team of
developers will
perform the
planning and
any lightweight
documentation
Analyst Team
• KanBan
approach for
crafting the
stories
• Hand-off of
stories to a
development
team
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Analyst Team
Member
• BA serves as a
proxy to a
partiallyavailable
Product Owner
• Will also
perform QA role
and solution
verification and
validation
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Good Stories &
Decomposition
Project
Epic
Epic
Epic
Repeat
Group A
Group B
First
A.1
A.2
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B.1
B.2
B.3
Second
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Continual Activities
Project
Initiation
Product
Vision
http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/product-backlog/grooming-the-productbacklog/
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Where does analysis take
place?
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Where does analysis take
place?
www.realmdigital.co.za
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Management &
Communication
Scope
Reusability
Communication
Traceability
Documentation
• Minimum Viable Product, Communication of
Release and Sprint Commitments
• Stories can be reused for functionality
based on the decomposition
• Continual and ongoing from PO to BA/Team,
during planning and daily stand ups
• Epics, Themes, Trains, - > Acceptance
Conditions and Test Criteria
• Lightweight, Still can be within a repository
and other agile/scrum tools (V1, Rally, etc.)
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Modeling Requirements
www.agilemodeling.com
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Someone has to perform BA
tasks
IIBA – BABOK 2.0
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The Agile Analyst
Teams are most successful when the PO has
some understanding of a traditional BA role
PO needs the support of analysts within a
team
Analysis should be a shared role in specific
team members
Analysis activities all happen the same way
in a waterfall type of project, but in smaller
slices, with a higher frequency of iteration.
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Contact Information
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Margaret Dessyprise Thomas
[email protected]
@greekdaisy
Blogs.captechconsulting.com
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@mcvey_mcvey
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