Business Analysis Agility: how business analysis works with agile development RE’20 Industry Day Keynote

Business analysts are just as indispensable as they always have been, but now we need to work differently, in a more agile way, to fit with agile development. This talk shows you how to do that. It is about three things: Too many projects start with an assumed solution, often by recording this assumed solution as a backlog. This talk shows you a better way to start.; Spend enough time with the customers to understand their work, their desired outcome, and what it is they value. We talk about generating alternative candidate solutions and testing them using quick, safe-to-fail probes. The justification for multiple candidates is to get away from the assumed solution, and validate the customer's problem space by exploring different ways to solve it.; Use a story map to organise the stories written by the business analysts. The BAs write the stories in units corresponding to business events. The product owner prioritises the story map (which is in effect prioritising the business events) and thereby synchronises the work of the business analysts with that of the developers.