Business Analysis Agility: Solve the Real Problem, Deliver Real Value

English | 2018 | ISBN: 978-0134847061 | 272 Pages | EPUB, AZW3 | 15 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.