PM Insight Fremont Virtual Meeting - Why Your Agile Organization Needs A High-Performing Business Analysis Competency
PM Insight-Fremont Virtual Meeting:
Why Your Agile Organization Needs A High-Performing Business Analysis Competency
When organizations adopt agile software development approaches, they often focus on its technical aspects while paying minimal attention to its implications for business analysis and planning (also known as Requirements Engineering (RE)). For most of his professional life, Podeswa has been focused on helping organizations navigate this less-understood piece of the agile process and develop an effective analysis competency that supports organizational agility. In this talk, he draws on lessons learned from those experiences, and guidelines from his recently published book, The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning, to explain why an effective agile business analysis and planning competency is vital to the success of large-scale agile organizations, its ramifications for effective product ownership, and its key guidelines for promoting innovation and adaptability.
Topics include an overview of the research on the benefits of agile analysis and planning, how the competency is distributed across the agile organization, and how techniques and activities such as hypothesis-testing, Minimum Marketable Features (MMF) and Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) focus the team on highest-value work. We also examine the role of planning in agile development, what it means to plan under conditions of extreme uncertainty, and why agile planning is critical for innovative product development in order to minimize risk and direct investment towards the most promising solutions.
Takeaways:
Participants will:
- Learn how agile analysis and planning maximizes value delivery by focusing the team on the things that matter the most to the customer and business.
- Know what the research says about the benefits of agile analysis on an organization's ability to sense and respond to change.
- Learn how data-informed planning techniques like hypothesis-testing and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) reduce risk while directing development investment towards products and features that deliver the highest value when used by stakeholders.
- Understand how the analysis and planning competency is distributed within an agile organization and across PO/BA roles
- Know how key practices of agile business analysis and planning, like Acceptance Test-Driven Development/Behavior-Driven Development (ATDD/BDD) and Minimum Marketable Features (MMF), shorten time to market without sacrificing reliability.
About the Instructor:
Howard Podeswa
Howard Podeswa is a thought leader in the intersection of agile and business analysis. For over twenty years, he has been helping large organizations optimize their analysis and planning practices for agile software development approaches. He has authored a number of books that have become staple references for practitioners, most recently, The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning: From Strategic Plan to Continuous Value Delivery - How Product Owners and Business Analysts (BAs) maximize the value of the product by integrating BA competencies with agile methodologies (Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition, 2021). Other works include UML for the IT Business Analyst (2009), and The Business Analyst’s Handbook (2008).
At Noble Inc., he has provided agile and business analysis services to clients worldwide, including the International Standards Organization (ISO), Moody’s, the Mayo Clinic, TELUS, TD Bank, LabCorp, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Mawer Investment Management Ltd., Bell Nexia, and REI Coop. He has been an advisor for professional associations, including the PMI Guide to Business Analysis, IIBA BABOK and the IIBA Nimble initiative.
To contact Howard for in-house and public training and coaching services, please email howardpodeswa@nobleinc.ca or find him on LinkedIn @howardpodeswa
Meeting Leader: Krishna (kgundlapalli@gmail.com)
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