On June 15th, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of business analysts who had a lot of questions about agile. I had been asked to give a 45 minute overview of agile and was provided a sample list of questions for the presentation would cover. I quickly realized that I would never come close [...]
Beyond Requirements: Raising business analysis to another level
The great efforts of groups like the IIBA notwithstanding, Business Analysts still face an image problem. Many people either don’t know what we do; think we exist as stenographers or order takers; or worse just think we get in the way. We could blame Tom Smykowski from Office Space, or we could take a look [...]