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by Debra Paul, Lynda Girvan
Agile and Business Analysis: Practical guidance for IT professionals
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BCS, THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Authors’ biographies
Foreword
Preface
1. BUSINESS ANALYSIS IN AGILE ENVIRONMENTS
Introduction
The rationale for business analysis
Business agility
The agile business analyst
The agile business analysis book
2. AGILE PHILOSOPHY AND PRINCIPLES
Introduction
The origins of agile
The Agile Manifesto
The 12 agile principles
Agile approaches
Agile practices
Conclusion
3. ANALYSING THE ENTERPRISE
Introduction
The business analysis perspective
Agile Manifesto for buiness analysts
Agile business thinking
Conclusion
4. ADOPTING AN AGILE MINDSET
Introduction
Relating the agile principles to business analysis
Collaborative working
Self-organising teams
Continuous improvement
Iterative development and incremental delivery
Planning for and building in change
Doing the right thing and the thing right
Conclusion
5. UNDERSTANDING AGILE METHODS AND FRAMEWORKS
Introduction
Key elements in agile methods
Popular agile methods and approaches
Scaled agile approaches
Conclusion
6. MODELLING THE BUSINESS CONTEXT
Introduction
Organisational agility
Using modelling techniques
Modelling at a business level
Conclusion
7. WORKING WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND ROLES
Introduction
The nature of stakeholders
The multi-skilled team
Customer categories
Stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder categories, roles and perspectives
Conclusion
8. DECOMPOSING GOALS
Introduction
The relevance of goal-based analysis
Goal and functional decomposition
Understanding goal levels
Using goals to achieve business agility
Using goals to define iterations and releases
Conclusion
9. PRIORITISING THE WORK
Introduction
The importance of prioritisation
Prioritising requirements
Applying prioritisation
Prioritisation decomposition
Prioritisation issues
Conclusion
10. DECIDING THE REQUIREMENTS APPROACH
Introduction
The requirements engineering framework
Planning the requirements approach
Issues with requirements engineering
Agile requirements engineering
Requirements elicitation techniques
The role of business analysis in elicitation
Conclusion
11. MODELLING USERS AND PERSONAS
Introduction
Benefits of a modelling approach to requirements
Modelling users and functionality
Analysing users and roles
Analysing personas and misuse characters
Analysing the system context and scope
Visualising user journeys
Conclusion
12. MODELLING STORIES AND SCENARIOS
Introduction
Modelling system usage
User stories
Scenarios
Behaviour driven development
Story mapping
Conclusion
13. ORGANISING TASKS AND REQUIREMENTS
Introduction
Types of requirement
The requirements catalogue
The itemised backlogs
Requirements catalogue or solution backlog?
Recording non-functional requirements
Hierarchy of requirements
Conclusion
14. ESTIMATING AGILE PROJECTS
Introduction
Agile estimation approaches
Why and when to estimate
Estimation techniques
Conclusion
15. PLANNING AND MANAGING ITERATIONS
Introduction
The iteration
Iterations and goals
Planning the iteration
Managing and monitoring the iteration
Reviewing the iteration
The role of business analysis in agile iterations
Conclusion
16. CONSIDERATIONS WHEN ADOPTING AGILE
Introduction
Agile adoption
The business analyst role in an agile world
Conclusion
Index
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