Craig chats with Ryan McKergow, a Business Analyst and Agile Consultant at Elabor8, at the YOW! West conference in Perth about being an Agile BA:
Business Analysts work with business people to understand the problem they want to solve and then work with developers to take those expectations and help them build the system
Writing stories and requirements is the boring part of the job – the exciting part is getting different people problem solving together
Story Kickoff – having a conversation at the start of a story (one of the three C’s), get the whole team in front of a whiteboard and drawing it out
Reduce the amount of time between analysis and development as much as possible, try not to have a lead time of more than one sprint ahead where possible
The further ahead you complete analysis, the more likelihood you will introduce waste and rework
Showcases and review sessions are a good engagement piece to replace traditional signoffs and to build trust
Document conversations as acceptance criteria within stories, but the tool or document does not replace conversations
Best way to learn new approaches is to give it a go
Craig and Tony are once again roaming the floor, this time at the Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for interesting people in the Australian Agile community. While walking around the floor they run into:
Rachel Slattery (SlatteryIT) – organiser of Agile Australia talks about the record crowd, selection of speakers and the number of first timers new to Agile
Stephanie BySouth is the MC of the Great Lean Debate, a fun session recorded live at LAST Brisbane 2018. Ryan McKergow, Shane Hastie, Renae Craven are the “Legendary Agile Sh*t-talkers” team and Craig Smith, Mel Khim and Karyl Crick are the “Getting Agile Sh*t Done” team.
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