The Role of an Agile Business Analyst
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
TO maximise the effectiveness of the customer of the product
AS AN Agile Business Analyst
I NEED to help the Agile Customer discover the goals and needs of the customer of the product.
Acceptance Criteria
Those of an Agile Team Member plus:
- I have a good understanding of the business domain and business goals
- I have strong facilitation, communication and analytical skills.
Backlog
- I help clarify the goal and business value of Minimum Marketable Features
- I assist the Agile Customer in writing user stories to the level of granularity required by the team, in collaboration with the team
- I help clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
- I review user stories with the Agile Customer with a strategic point of view
- I capture and keep the business rules up-to-date
- I capture and keep the data rules up-to-date
- I help remove business-related impediments raised by the team.
Prioritisation and Planning
- I provide business information during Release and Iteration Planning
- I help review, refine and re-prioritise the Release Backlog, also known as Backlog Grooming
Testing
- I help produce acceptance tests from acceptance criteria
- I provide regular feedback by testing the deliverables against a user story’s acceptance criteria
- I provide regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals.
You can find out more about the other Agile Team Roles and Responsibilities here.
No. 1 — April 24th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I would just like to say that you have quite succinctly defined the role of an Agile Business Analyst. It is a myriad or greys but I like your definition and when I tried to define it on my blog I concentrated on the documentation aspects of Agile.
I will look forward to your posts – you have your heads switched on.
-Gillian
No. 2 — August 6th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
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