In 2020 Jeff and Ken released the new Scrum Guide. What changes appeared after another three years of observing teams working in Scrum? And how those changes affect business analysts? The Scrum Guide is the description of a framework for teams developing a product. It presents events, artifacts, and resposibilities in a team (Scrum Team, …
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21.10 I present on the official IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) conference – Building Business Capability – the largest conference for business analysis in the world. “Stepping into strategic business analysis during agile transformation”. I present it together with Elena Zhukova. As it’s online, I missed Las Vegas trip. And I will start the …
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Hello, beginners in business analysis and all who care about the value of work. Learn how to ensure that your initiatives with software or improvements in a company make sense. In 7 steps. 1. What’s the problem? Problem statement What’s the problem? You would be surprised how many times we tend to solve things not …
How to recognize a professional business analyst from a newbie? A professional knows systems thinking. Can distinguish parts cooperating together, see the relationships and is able to foresee consequences to the whole system, when parts are being changed. Develop this thinking and it will help you in business analysis as well as life in general. …
You need to make an important change to a software. Or in general – you need to modify something in a company. Unfortunately, the change depends on more than one team (department, person). You depend on others. And the team has your change deep in their backlog. It’s not a priority for them. They have …
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“I’m starting to think that this is the biggest problem of humanity” – my colleague said. I’m overwhelmed by communication issues too. Sometimes I wonder – it just can’t go well when we do it so poorly! But we don’t even see it! It reminds me of a model… Communication model How does communication look …
How to decide if business analysis is something for you? There should be more consideration than just “I’ve heard about the profession and I think I might like it”. It’s a big decision after all. Before you spend a lot of time for (re)training, let’s take a closer look to you and the job, looking …
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Have you noticed that some people or companies have their value hierarchies? Have you heard about Scrum values? Would you like to create something similar for yourself or your company? Let’s try. What is it? What a value hierarchy is? And values are? Those are abstract concepts (like honesty, courage, easiness) which are important in …
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Many people ask me “How to become a business analyst?”. But the first question is – should you become a business analyst at all? How to make sure you’re choosing the right profession for you? Let’s check. Why it’s so important? I observe how some people flourish at work. Some others struggle and come back …
