I am pleased to announce the opening of the IIBA Phoenix Chapter and Requirements.net Joint Survey for the Agile Business Analyst.
Agile development represents a significant opportunity for improved business and IT alignment. The agile manifesto calls for highly iterative development builds, rapid requirements definition (through visual stories), and iterative testing to ensure quality across the development lifecycle. As business analysts, the opportunity represents the reality of a changing industry landscape, where we must re-tool our approaches and skill-sets to respond to this new world reality.This joint survey represents a collaboration between the IIBA Phoenix Chapter and Requirements.net to identify the true trends experienced by BAs in their teams, departments, and in their companies. The actual questions asked in this survey were collected by the IIBA Phoenix chapter members in a joint session held last month.The responses to this survey will be revealed at a special edition IIBA session in Phoenix on May 11th - details as follows:
The IIBA Phoenix Chapter Meeting on the 11th.
Speaking Session “Sprints, Stories, and Visual Requirements”
Register at http://phoenix.theiiba.org
This session will reveal real-world survey results from a special joint-effort between Requirements.net and the Phoenix IIBA chapter on the impact of Agile for requirements authors and business analysts. We will discuss the types of Agile projects most commonly being deployed in IT, how requirements have shifted from paragraph-based documents to story-centric flow direction, and how business analysts can be a key lynch pin to drive success of an Agile IT shop. We will talk about the “Just enough” principal and how to know what level of detail is required at each stage of an agile project. The presentation for this session will be based on an internet survey emailed to over 25,000 business analysts by Requirements.net on Agile development.
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In addition, results of this survey will be used in the upcoming Cap Gemini World Quality Report for 2010.
(Download the 2009 World Quality Report at http://www.capgemini.com/services-and-solutions/technology/quality_and_testing/quality_report_09/)
The Survey will be open through the end of April, and we will be providing free copies of the Cap Gemini World Quality Report and the Blueprint whitepaper of Agile Requirements in Application Modernization to all who take a moment to complete the survey.Special thanks to Douglas Holly, VP of Programs for the IIBA Phoenix Chapter for his leadership on this initiative.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Jeff Jenkins // Apr 9, 2010 at 10:08 am
This is an awesome initiative. Congrats on this.
2 Russell // Apr 28, 2010 at 9:00 am
My name is Rusell Pannone and I am a big advocate for the BA role in agile/lean system-software development.
Rest assured the role of a Business Analysts does have a place in agile/lean product development.
The Business Analyst is a role that seems oftenneglected by Scrum.
The Business Analyst becomes a valuable contributor to the Product Owner, and in some cases my be the surrogate Product Owner.
To ensure close collaboration between the team and the Product Owner, Scrum ensures that the necessary elements are effectively communicated directly to the team without complex documentation.
However, to ensure continuity of information, we know that functional documentation that is adequate and representative of the system-software to be developed is essential.
In a multi-team context, the Business Analyst may be called upon to play the role of Product Owner. He she then becomes responsible for core components of the product within the various sub-teams.
Please feel free to contact me at rpannone@WeBeAgile.com
3 Russell // Apr 29, 2010 at 8:42 am
This is a great article about the role of a BA in the world of being agile.
http://www.agilejournal.com/articles/columns/column-articles/2645-agile-practitioners–put-business-analysts-to-work-for-you
4 Gaelan Graman // Jun 27, 2010 at 3:00 pm
This is an awesome initiative. Congrats on this.
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