Month: November 2011
The Value of Business Analysis in Scrum
Hhow can a business analyst contribute in a Scrum Project? This article discusses the fact that producing a business analysis in Scrum is a goal and not a role. The possible contribution of the ScrumMaster, delivery team and Product Owner, the three Scrum roles, are described. It is often the Product owner that is held […]
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Just In Time Software Requirements
Elena Yatzeck shares in this blog post her thoughts about “value spike”. A “spike” is a short piece of work within an agile project in which one or two programmers may be assigned to do outside of the iteration structure. The goal is to investigates unknown technology problems well enough so you can estimate them. […]
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Does Formal Requirements Documentation Have a Place in Agile?
One of the first questions Business Analysts ask when confronted with an agile method is “How agile method cant incorporate our documentation.” And sometimes it is not a question, but an affirmation. This article provides good framework for integrating agile and formal documentation.
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Building the Right Scope
In this article from chapter 4 of Specification by Example, author Gojko Adzic explains how to work together with business users to come up with the right stories and that the key idea to achieve that is not to start with user stories but with business goals and derive the scope from that.
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