The team establishes ground rules for considering business analysis performance improvements. They agree that speed and accuracy of executing analysis activities becomes very important at the following horizon:
A team demonstrating the following characteristics:
Expects rapid change
Incorporates learning & feedback
Has a preference for shorter time frames
Treats plans as testable hypothesis
is following planning practices that are described as:
At the strategy level, a major component of waste can be avoided by ensuring the enterprise:
The team is discussing what analysis performed at the initiative level should include. They realize this analysis will support a number of key decisions, particularly decisions around the:
A team has been delivering a steady stream of small value increments and has completed several solution components, with some still remaining. The solution owner examines the reactions to the delivered components from customers, and decides that the need has been met and the remaining potential components won’t deliver enough additional value to justify doing them. The solution owner will:
The following type of learning and feedback could result in identifying new items for the backlog:
The team is discussing one of the six key terms used to discuss both business analysis and its relationship with common terminology. Specifically, they are discussing a specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context. This team is discussing the:
A team has been delivering a steady stream of small value increments towards a goal for 4 months, and has completed several solution components, with several still potentially doable. The solution owner examines the reactions to the delivered components from customers, and decides which one(s) the team will do next. The solution owner is demonstrating:
While reviewing criteria for a well-written story, the team discusses the following criteria:
The delivery team is:
prioritizing the backlog
focusing on stories that deliver maximum value first
maximizing the work not done.
These demonstrate application of the following agile business analysis principle: