Practical Internal Product Resources
Session Description Many organizations use digital transformation as a strategy to succeed in today’s complex environment. People skilled in business analysis can play a key role in applying digital technologies to create and improve business processes. Some organizations don’t value effective business analysis in digital transformation, while others do. To ignite your potential, you can …
How to be an agile business analyst explains how to apply business analysis skills in an agile manner so you can help your team.
Session Description Have you ever found yourself working as part of a large program with a lot of activity but not much progress? It could be rewriting a 20 year old system, customizing a COTS application, or building a data warehouse. You may have been told that adopting agile approaches will help you deliver those …
Overview As with everything else related to agile, the nature of the Product Owner role, and whether it is needed at all, depends a great deal on context. As teams discover this, it leads to some common questions: Join Kent to examine the Product Owner role and attempt to answer the above questions. He’ll share …
Have you ever been in a meeting where the thought crossed your mind that “this meeting should have been an email.” There are plenty of meetings that fit that description. So many in fact that a cottage industry has grown up offering swag to celebrate the fact. (This is an affiliate link. Since I didn’t …
Presentation Description Ok, perhaps I should say that differently. The concept of a stakeholder is problematic. Technically, a stakeholder is anyone who impacts or is impacted by an organization’s actions or products. That definition of a stakeholder isn’t very helpful if you’re trying to differentiate between customers, users, and those internal folks who have an …
Overview One of the primary responsibilities of business analysts, product owners, and all other product people is to build and maintain a shared understanding of the outcome your team seeks to deliver. Conversations are an effective way to build that shared understanding. You may find yourself wondering who should be included in those conversations, when …
Overview Effective product ownership focuses your team on outcome over output, builds shared understanding, and makes sure decisions get made. These activities are key to building the right thing and not building things that aren’t needed. When your teams are separated from each other, or your product owners are separated from your teams, those activities …
Overview Agile. Scrum. Lean. SAFe. Buzzwords to be certain, and also powerful ideas that have changed the landscape in which you and most other business analysts find yourselves today. How can you position yourself to be effective and ultimately successful in this environment? Join Kent McDonald to find out seven things business analysts need to …
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all – Peter Drucker Many IT organizations adopt agile in an attempt to do things better, faster and cheaper and they are often disappointed. Agile can help you do things better if your team adopts the engineering …
