Introducing the Agile Extension to the BABOK - a collaboration between IIBA and Agile Alliance

1. Applying Analysis in
an Agile World

2. Stephanie
Vineyard
•Excella Consulting: Director
of Business Analysis Service,
Agile trainer and coach
•Agile Extension v2 to the
BABOK, core team
•Board member of the
IIBA DC Chapter
•CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMP, ITIL
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4. Why update?
Author’s goals?
What’s in it for me?
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Agile Extension v2 to the BABOK

5. Our
intentions
today
• Understand the Agile Mindset
• Know the value of business
analysis
• A framework for business
analysis with an Agile mindset
• The role of the business
analyst
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6. 1.
Gain an
Agile
Mindset
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7. • Focused on value
• Seeks feedback
for learning
• Collaborative
• Learn through
discovery
• Aims for
continuous
delivery
Agile is …

8. Delivered by
values
Agile is a
mindset
…

9. Individuals and
interactions
over Process and tools
Working software over Comprehensive
documentation
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
Responding to change over Following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the
items on the left more. http://agilemanifesto.org/
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and
helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Agile Manifesto

10. Guided by
principles
Agile is a
mindset
Delivered by
values …

11. 1. "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software.”
2. "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes
harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.”
3. "Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of
months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.”
4. "Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the
project.”
5. "Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and
support they need, and trust them to get the job done.”
6. "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and
within a development team is face-to-face conversation.”
Principles Behind The Agile
Manifesto

12. 7. "Working software is the primary measure of progress.”
8. "Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors,
developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely.”
9. "Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances
agility.”
10. "Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is
essential.”
11. "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-
organizing teams.”
12. "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective,
then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly."
Principles Behind The Agile
Manifesto

13. 1. Scrum
2. Kanban
3. XP
4. SAFe
5.LeSS
6.…
Agile is a mindset
Delivered by values
Guided by
principles
Implemented with
practices.

14. Scrum
• Transparency
• Inspection
• Adaption
Retrospective
Review
Product Owner
ScrumMaster
Sprint
Agile terminology
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Delivery
Backlog
Estimation
Iterative vs Flow
Kanban
User stories
Velocity

15. 2.
Business
Analysis
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16. 1. Enables change by
defining needs and
recommending
solutions that deliver
value.
2. Defines and validates
solutions that meet
business needs, goals
or objectives.
Business Analysis

17. “…as health officials in Rochester, New York, calculated in
1900, the fifteen thousand horses in that city produced
enough manure in a year to make a pile 175 feet high
covering an acre of ground and breeding sixteen billion
flies, each one a potential spreader of germs.”
“Urban Pollution— Many Long Years Ago”, American
Heritage, 1971
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The Problem - Manure

18. The Solution –
Manure
Removal
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19. The Need –
Transportation

20. The Innovation
Solution

21. An innovator should have understanding of one’s
customers and their problems via empirical,
observational, anecdotal methods or even intuition.
~ HBR article by Patrick Vlaskovits, August 2011
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What is an innovator?

24. 1. See the whole
2. Think as a customer
3. Analyze to determine what is valuable
4. Get Real using examples
5. Understand what is doable
6. Stimulate collaboration and continuous
improvement
7. Avoid waste
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Principles of Agile Business Analysis

26. Agile is a
mindset
Delivered by
values
Guided by
principles
Implemented
with
practices
Business analysis
enables change
By defining needs
and
recommending
solutions that
deliver value
And validates
solutions meet
business needs,
goals, and
objectives.

27. 3.
Analysis
at
multiple
Horizons
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28. The Value Spectrum

29. Agile Analysis Horizons:
• Strategy
• Initiative
• Delivery

30. Analysis
Horizons
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31. We’re going on a road trip!

32. • North or South
highway?
• Type of vehicle?
• Long goal -
length of trip?
See sights?
• Overnight
accommodations?
• Clothes, money?
• Short term goal –
see sights or visit
people?
• Spare tire or AAA?
• Hotel stay tonight?
• Food in the car?
• Music?
• Immediate goal –
route out of DC?

33. 1. Time
2. Goal
3. Supplies
4. Risks or Limitations
Parameters

34. 4.
The
Analyst
Role
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35. Focus on the goal

36. Test assumptions

37. Validate the needs were met

38. Our
intentions
today
• Understand the Agile Mindset
• Know the value of business
analysis
• A framework for business
analysis with an Agile mindset
• The role of the business
analyst
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39. Stephanie Vineyard
@tesiemae
Stephanie.vineyard@excella.com
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