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How To Be An Agile Business Analyst

How To Be An Agile Business Analyst is about applying your business analysis skills in an agile manner. Keep in mind that the agile here describes how you approach business analysis.

This book helps business analysts be an effective member of a team working in an agile fashion. It explains how to add value to your team and how to apply your business analysis skills. It will help you understand how you can use your business analysis skills to make sure your team builds the right thing.

Read the book to discover the five characteristics of an agile business analyst and how to adopt those characteristics. You are an agile business analyst when you:

  • Consider your context so that you use appropriate techniques.
  • Help your team focus on outcomes over outputs and use that outcome to define success and measure progress.
  • Use tried and true business analysis techniques to build and maintain a shared understanding of the problem your team is trying to solve.
  • Make sure decisions get made, whether you have the responsibility for deciding or not.
  • Use short feedback cycles to learn about your users needs and adjust your product accordingly.

The book also explains the roles and responsibilities you may experience and explores the impact an agile approach has on a common business analysis process.

Get this book to help you demonstrate to teams in your organization why they should have you on their team. At the end of the day, isn’t that really what matters?

About the Author(s)
Kent J McDonald

I write about and practice software product management in a variety of industries including retail, fintech, agriculture, financial services, health insurance, nonprofit, and automotive. I practice my craft with a variety of product teams and provide just-in-time resources for product people at insideproduct.co. When not writing or product managing, I’m #ubersherpa for my family, listen to jazz and podcasts (but not necessarily podcasts about jazz), and collect national parks.

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