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The Adaptive Agile Business Analyst -How to maximize your effectiveness regardless of
your organization’s Agile maturity
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3 Takeaways from Today’s Session
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1. It is important to assess your organization’s Agile maturity before influencing change.
2. There are many tools and techniques which can be leveraged to increase your organization’s Agile maturity from a Business Analyst perspective.
3. The key is knowing the right tool or technique to use which will have the greatest chance of success in your organization.
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Leon Sabarsky Bio
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• 20 years in IT, Director-level
• 10 years Agile
• Specialize in growing healthy agile teams
• MBA, PMP, CSM, CSPO, CSP, SPC, IGTF
• Founding member of TriAgile committee
• Frequent speaker at Agile, Scrum and BA conferences
• Innovated Group Interviews and Team-Based Hiring
• Healthy Agile in business for one year
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Remembering Jared Richardson
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• Jared was a consultant, developer, tester, and manager, including Director of Development at several companies.
• He was the author of two books, Ship It! and Career 2.0, and was the 2nd public signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
• Jared was Screencast Editor for the Pragmatic Bookshelf, and co-founded The GROWS™ Method.
• He started AgileRTP in 2007 and is well known as a coach and consultant through his company, Agile Artisans. Also founding member of TriAgile committee.
• https://www.gofundme.com/jared-richardson-college-fund
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It’s Hard to be a BA
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My Hypothesis – BAs are Influencers
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• Are you maximizing your influence on your organization?• Are you helping your organization become more Agile?• What’s holding you back from “pushing the limits of your organization’s
capacity for change?
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The BA Role – Old vs New
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The BA Role – Many Variations
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Is this what BA’s do?
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Microsoft Word
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• Together, these five commands account for around 32% of the total command use in Word.• Paste itself accounts for more than 11% of all commands used, and has more than twice as much usage
as the #2 entry on the list, Save.• Paste is also far-and-away the number one command in Excel and PowerPoint, accounting for 15% and
12% of total command use, respectively.• Beyond the top 10 commands or so, however, the curve flattens out considerably. • The percentage difference in usage between the #100 command ("Accept Change") and the #400
command ("Reset Picture") is about the same in difference between #1 and #11 ("Change Font Size")• What % functionality do you use in Microsoft Word?• How would this affect testing and upgrades?• Does anybody go back and check what % of requirements are being used by users?
Top 5 Most-Used Commands in Microsoft Word1. Paste2. Save3. Copy4. Undo5. Bold
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Assessing Org Maturity
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Maturity Level Prioritization Artifact(s) BA Role
Low Little to None Business Requirements Document (BRD)Functional Specification Document (FSD)
Gather RequirementsDocument RequirementsJust BAOrder Taker
Medium Some –Based on Capacity, Time or Money
BRD LiteFSD Lite
Elicit RequirementsPotential Solution OptionsBA liaison w/Business
High Robust –Based on Value,MVP, 80/20, etc.
Business Opportunity White PaperUser Stories
Identify OpportunitiesStory StewardFlexible Team MemberPartner with BusinessTrusted Advisor
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No Prioritization Necessary
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Prioritize Requirements – Why?
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Sequencing
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Prioritize Requirements
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When do you Prioritize?
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Prioritize Requirements – 1, 2, 3
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High, Medium, Low
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How many are usually ranked High?
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Urgency-Importance Matrix
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Prioritize Requirements – V2
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Example: Lower Cost = FTE Savings• # of Claims Automated Annually
• Divided by 12 (# of Months)• Divided by 21 (# of Average Working Days/Month)• Divided by Rate Per Hour of Work
• Equals FTE Savings
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80/20
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MoSCoW
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Kano Model
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MVP/MMF
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MLP
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User Stories
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Do we focus on Value/Benefit or is it an afterthought?Or not even addressed?
Do your “User Stories” begin “System Shall”?
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Story Map
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Personas
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WSJF
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RAT
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Requirements Center of Excellence (RCoE)
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Key areas needed to create a Requirements Center of Excellence.The development of a RCOE can be incremental and iterative. Each level of requirements maturity requires incremental improvements in the following functional areas:• People. Skills and knowledge of the IT
product managers, business analysts, quality assurance, systems developers, SMEs, and business stakeholders.
• Process. Practices for all stages of requirements, including templates, guidelines, assessments, training, and mentoring.
• Tools. Requirements management, requirements collection, document management, team collaboration, issue tracking, and knowledge repositories.
Creating a Requirements Center of Excellence, stage by stage.The stages of RCOE creation build upon each other to support building requirements maturity.Stage 0: Ad Hoc. There is no requirements maturity. Requirements are created ad hoc, project scope is based on “squeaky wheel” direction. The RCOE vision is laid out; influencers and strategy stakeholders are identified.Stage 1: Individual. Although individual efforts may align with business strategy, there is no consistent measurement of business return.Stage 2: Team. Teams now share an understanding of business objectives; some individuals may share an awareness of strategy. While individual projects may be measured for return, there is no organization-wide validation of project return yet.Stage 3: Business Unit. There is strong portfolio management across multiple teams. Teamsand finance consistently define and evaluate the project return across the portfolio. More than one business unit may be at this level of maturity.Stage 4: Organization. Throughout the organization, there is strong portfolio management based on organizational strategy. The scope of projects is aligned with the strategy, and the entire portfolio is regularly analyzed for business return.
Stage0Ad Hoc
Project scope based on “squeaky wheel” and
individual desires.No requirements maturity.
Requirements maturity is assessed, and a RCOE initiative is launched. Organizational influencers identify problems, determine priority, drive adoption.
Stage1Individual
Individual alignment with business objectives. No consistent measurement
of businessreturn.
Stage2Team
Team(s) share an understanding of business
objectives. Individual projects may be measured for return.Noorganization-wide validation of return.
Stage3BusinessUnit
Strong portfolio management across multiple teams.Teams
and finance consistently define and evaluate return
acrossportfolio.
Stage4OrganizationStrong portfolio
management based on organizational strategy.
Project level scope is aligned with
organization strategy. Entire portfolio analyzed
for businessreturn.
A framework is defined for aligning IT initiatives with organizationalstrategy. Teams are able to utilize business objectives to make dailyscope decisions.The RCOE team is distributed throughout the enterprise, working to keep requirements and frameworks aligned with enterprise-level business objectives and business strategy.The team measures the impacts on business outcomes, and continues incremental improvement and iteration.
People
People use processes inconsistently. Team lacks knowledge and skills. Effective collaboration issporadic.
Individuals have basic requirements knowledge and skills. Roles and standards are undefined.
Team has common set of basic requirements knowledge and skills. Skills matrix introduced for employee growth and management.
Defined hiring and growth path for an IT Product Management function. Organization capable of hiring and growing talent.
Business Architects are seeded throughout the organization to grow and mature teams in other businessunits.
Process
Requirements practices are inconsistent. No templates used. Requirement artifacts may be mixed with project or design docs.
Select industry best practices are used in some requirements activities, but areusedinconsistently. Templates used on someprojects.
Templates, guidelines, basic examples for requirements-related work products used. Development and QA, among others, userequirements.
Practices are followed consistently. Library and community of best practices created and used across business unit. RCOE measuresadoption.
Throughout the org, practices are consistent, library and community of best practices used. RCOE measures adoption, adjusts to improve it.
Tools
Microsoft® Office® is the primary tool used. No consistent use of tools for modeling and requirementsmanagement.
Requirements modeling and management software, if available, is used by individuals to improve their delivery.
Knowledge-sharing repositories are updated by team. Entire project teams use tools todrive development, testing and deployment.
Knowledge repositories are kept up to date and used by all teams. Requirements modeling and management tools are in use on allprojects.
Requirements tools are continuously enhanced and integrated, giving executives a global view of the delivery of value across the enterprise. ©
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What kind of Analyst are you?
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MoSCoW BA Skills
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Potential BA Career Path
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3 Takeaways from Today’s Session
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1. It is important to assess your organization’s Agile maturity before influencing change.
2. There are many tools and techniques which can be leveraged to increase your organization’s Agile maturity from a Business Analyst perspective.
3. The key is knowing the right tool or technique to use which will have the greatest chance of success in your organization.
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Must…Have…Feedback!
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