business analyst: the product owners trusted advisor

Business Analyst: The Product Owners Trusted

Advisor

Lisa LueckAgile Coach and Trainer

Certified Business Analysis Professional

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Product Owner

Own the product vision and roadmap.

Owns product scope and priorities of the solution.

Helps the team focus on the vision.

Product Vision: Publish Memoir to Inspire Others to action

Sprint Goal: Create storyboard for Memoir

Product Backlog

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Agile Team Member

Cross-functional team members that deliver the solution/product increment

Identify and complete tasks required to deliver product increments (examples include design, testing, analysis, development, translation, branding, etc.)

Product Increment:Story Board of Memoir

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Business Analyst

Analyze what is valuable from both a product and process perspective

Surface the problem (root cause)

Support an environment of creativity, rapid learning and experimentation which leads to innovation

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Business Analyst and Product OwnerSimilarities

Bridge communications through heavy collaboration between the delivery team and other stakeholders

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Business Analyst and Product OwnerDifferences

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Skills

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Negotiation

• Facilitation

• Problem Solving

• Articulate scenarios and problems

• Inquisitive/Ask probing questions

Agile Requirements and Analysis

MINDSET and SIMPLICITY

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General ObservationsAnalysis in Agile EnvironmentsAnalysis and planning happen throughout the entire lifecycle, not just at the beginning of a project, and should involve representatives from multiple disciplines

• Apply fit for purpose techniques

• Highly collaborative

• Lightweight artifacts

• Artifacts evolve as we learn more

• Requirements are executable

Iterative and Incremental

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Balance to reduce requirements gaps

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TechniquesFor Agile Analysis

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Value Stream Mapping

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Sally Jones

“I care deeply about both my family and my work”

AboutSally an educated on-the-go woman with two kids. She is a disciplined hard-worker who wants to do her best every day. Sally cares about the quality of her work. She wants to spend more time at home with her two kids.

AGE: 40OCCUPATION: SchedulerINCOME: $52,000STATUS: MarriedLOCATION: Saskatoon, Sask.

Key Identifiers:Full-time career Family-first valuesEducated Does her researchNeeds simple-easy to use products/services

Personality:Passionate LovingMotivated OptimisticGiving

Persona

Kano Analysis

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User Story with Acceptance Criteria

WHO

WHAT

WHY

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User Story Title

As a <user/role/persona>

I <want/need> <to do something>

So that <desired value achieved>

Given <condition/context>

When <action is carried out>

Then <observable consequence>

Poll – What are your go-to techniques?

What techniques do you use to uncover the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of the problems at hand?

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Backlog Refinement

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Product Backlog

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Iteration Reviews

Product Increment:Story Board of Memoir

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Retrospectives

What is impacting the team's ability to deliver increments of value?

How can we continuously improve our process?

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Ever face one or more of these scenarios?

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Agile lifecycles and workflows.

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Program

Exploratory

Lean Continuous

Delivery: Lean

Continuous

Delivery: Agile

Agile

DA FLEX

Poll – What is Your Way of Working?

Which lifecycle does your project/team generally use?

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Notes on Evolving Team Agility

• There is no one-size fits all approach

• There is no silver bullet

• Understand your unique situation

• Start from where you are and make strides to continuously evolve and improve

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Disciplined Agile

The Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit provides straightforward guidance to help organizations choose their way of working (WoW) in a context-sensitive manner, providing a solid foundation for business agility

Start where you are, do the best that you can given the situation that you face, and always try to get better

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Why Disciplined Agile?

You are a unique organization facing a unique situation

Success comes from adopting and tailoring and optimizing your work

processes to your context

Helps inform choices across your organizations value stream –

Better decisions lead to better outcomes

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Summary - picture

• Something to tie back in the trusted advisor piece

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