Open Agile 2012
Timisoara, Romania
Speech by Thomas Moedl, DialogData
Agile practices and business analysis are often perceived to be at odds with each other. This talk aims to clarify why this discord need not exist and proposes that business analysts and agile champions work toward deriving benefit from using both, and exploit synergies that have the potential to dramatically improve the software engineering process.
Particularly in large projects, where software systems are produced incrementally by several teams, one can observe risks regarding the quality of the results and the successful adaption of Scrum in equal measure. Evolutionary business analysis with user stories can provide a decisive contribution here, by adequately supporting agile project management in initializing the Scrum product backlogs and by generating the backlog entries.
1. „A Rational Romance“
Scrum and Evolutionary Business Analysis
Thomas Mödl
thomas.moedl@dialogdata.de
Timisoara, October 6th, 2012 DialogData.ro DialogData.de
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3. • Scrum • Business Analysis
– Agile Values – Goal Modeling
• Scrum and Agile – Vision Building
is all about communication
– Communication
– Agile Development
• Much about change
• User Stories
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7. AGILE SCRUM
Goal Orientation Focus
Trust Respect
Reliability Commitment
Openness Openness
Courage
„Have the courage to commit, to act, to be open, and to expect respect.“
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16. Backlog Grooming:
„Scrum is silent
on how this
work is done …“
„10% of each sprint …“
„this includes detailed requirements analysis …”
„many people like to articulate the
requirements in terms of user stories …”
Backlog Grooming:
Story Finding, Estimating, Refinement
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17. Backlog Grooming: Time Effort
> 21% Days / Month Working Days for Backlog Grooming
Team Members 7 20 140 10% 14
Product Owner 1 20 20 100% 20
8 40 160 21,25% 34
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18. „If I had asked people
what they wanted,
they would have said:
faster horses.“
- Henry Ford
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