I have been doing agile software development projects for awhile now, so i asked a business analysis colleague, Mark Foley to come and talk to the User group meeting I organize bimonthly for the ABAA in Canberra.
The role of the BA in an agile environment is a hot topic at the moment so we had over 30 Business Analyst attend the User Group Meeting on the 23rd of October. Mark Foley is a principal consultant from Borland, and he shared his insights into the emergence of agile as a methodology over the last ten years from the Chrysler motor car 3Cs beginnings of XP to today’s scrum sprints. Mark’s presentation is below as he kindly has allowed me to put it up on the ABAA site and slideshare.
Mark Foley Agile Methods And The Business Analystc
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Everyone it seems wants to be agile but it is not a magic formula and not suited to all projects.
We discussed the key elements of agile and how this can help our projects be more flexible, adaptive as through sprints we can develop and evolve the requirements with the business and users. Mark discussed that agile can be used across large geographically dispersed teams and in the government setting, agile is still relevant as documentation of the sprints as used in scrum, can help stakeholder understand the system and be more involved as the customer representative.
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