business analyst: the product owners trusted advisor
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Business Analyst: The Product Owners Trusted
Advisor
Lisa LueckAgile Coach and Trainer
Certified Business Analysis Professional
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Product Owner
Own the product vision and roadmap.
Owns product scope and priorities of the solution.
Helps the team focus on the vision.
Product Vision: Publish Memoir to Inspire Others to action
Sprint Goal: Create storyboard for Memoir
Product Backlog
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Agile Team Member
Cross-functional team members that deliver the solution/product increment
Identify and complete tasks required to deliver product increments (examples include design, testing, analysis, development, translation, branding, etc.)
Product Increment:Story Board of Memoir
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Business Analyst
Analyze what is valuable from both a product and process perspective
Surface the problem (root cause)
Support an environment of creativity, rapid learning and experimentation which leads to innovation
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Business Analyst and Product OwnerSimilarities
Bridge communications through heavy collaboration between the delivery team and other stakeholders
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Business Analyst and Product OwnerDifferences
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Skills
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Negotiation
• Facilitation
• Problem Solving
• Articulate scenarios and problems
• Inquisitive/Ask probing questions
Agile Requirements and Analysis
MINDSET and SIMPLICITY
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General ObservationsAnalysis in Agile EnvironmentsAnalysis and planning happen throughout the entire lifecycle, not just at the beginning of a project, and should involve representatives from multiple disciplines
• Apply fit for purpose techniques
• Highly collaborative
• Lightweight artifacts
• Artifacts evolve as we learn more
• Requirements are executable
Iterative and Incremental
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Balance to reduce requirements gaps
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TechniquesFor Agile Analysis
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Value Stream Mapping
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Sally Jones
“I care deeply about both my family and my work”
AboutSally an educated on-the-go woman with two kids. She is a disciplined hard-worker who wants to do her best every day. Sally cares about the quality of her work. She wants to spend more time at home with her two kids.
AGE: 40OCCUPATION: SchedulerINCOME: $52,000STATUS: MarriedLOCATION: Saskatoon, Sask.
Key Identifiers:Full-time career Family-first valuesEducated Does her researchNeeds simple-easy to use products/services
Personality:Passionate LovingMotivated OptimisticGiving
Persona
Kano Analysis
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User Story with Acceptance Criteria
WHO
WHAT
WHY
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User Story Title
As a <user/role/persona>
I <want/need> <to do something>
So that <desired value achieved>
Given <condition/context>
When <action is carried out>
Then <observable consequence>
Poll – What are your go-to techniques?
What techniques do you use to uncover the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of the problems at hand?
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Backlog Refinement
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Product Backlog
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Iteration Reviews
Product Increment:Story Board of Memoir
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Retrospectives
What is impacting the team's ability to deliver increments of value?
How can we continuously improve our process?
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Ever face one or more of these scenarios?
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Agile lifecycles and workflows.
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Program
Exploratory
Lean Continuous
Delivery: Lean
Continuous
Delivery: Agile
Agile
DA FLEX
Poll – What is Your Way of Working?
Which lifecycle does your project/team generally use?
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Notes on Evolving Team Agility
• There is no one-size fits all approach
• There is no silver bullet
• Understand your unique situation
• Start from where you are and make strides to continuously evolve and improve
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Disciplined Agile
The Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit provides straightforward guidance to help organizations choose their way of working (WoW) in a context-sensitive manner, providing a solid foundation for business agility
Start where you are, do the best that you can given the situation that you face, and always try to get better
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Why Disciplined Agile?
You are a unique organization facing a unique situation
Success comes from adopting and tailoring and optimizing your work
processes to your context
Helps inform choices across your organizations value stream –
Better decisions lead to better outcomes
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Summary - picture
• Something to tie back in the trusted advisor piece
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