challenges for business analysts in distributed agile
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Here I share, my pick of top 5 challenges faced by Business Analysts in Distributed Agile development. You will realize that these challenges apply to all distributed teams Agile or no Agile. I have also provided some of the techniques and tools that I have used to overcome these. This was presented at the Business Analyst World Bangalore on 25/May/2012.TRANSCRIPT
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Challenges for Business Analysts in Distributed Agile
Challenges for Business Analysts in Distributed Agile
Pankaj Kanchankar Lead Business Analyst
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Key Takeaways• Challenges faced by BAs in Distributed Agile• Techniques & Tools to overcome these
challenges
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BA in Distributed Agile• Strategic
– Building Product backlog– Minimum Viable Product– Product / Release roadmap
• Forward looking– JIT analysis– Story detailing, Narratives– Story Agreement
• Operational– Story kick off, BA Volley ball– IPMs, Show cases– Iteration management
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Lack of Shared Vision
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Getting time with Product
Management / Business
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Across Time Zones…
Source- http://www.qlock.com/
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Operational vs Forward looking
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Building Relationships
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Building relationships …. Across Geographies
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FEAR
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FEAR
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Lack of Shared Vision
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Building a Shared Vision- Project Inception
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The (typical) start of an engagement
“I’m glad we’re all agreed then.”
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Inception aims to get those mental models out
“Ah...”
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to iterate and converge on shared understanding
“Ah!”
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“I’m glad we’re all agreed then.”
and have everyone moving in the same direction
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Building a Shared Vision
• Project Inception– Business Model Canvas– Product In a Box– Story Map
www.businessmodelgeneration.com
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Building a Shared Vision
www.innovationGames.com
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Building a Shared Vision
Jeff Patton www.agileproductdesign.com
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Getting time with Product
Management / Business
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Set expectations AND get time commitment during Inception
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• Set up recurring meetings– Cancel when not required
• Utilize time well– Set expectations for each interaction– Have well defined agenda– Stick to time
• Move operational stuff to emails/ status reports or electronic tools like Mingle / Jira
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Building Relationships
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Building Relationships
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Building Relationships
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Use Technology• Set up Video conf• Video calls instead of
just voice calls– Skype, GoToMeeting,
Google+ Hangout, FaceTime, WebEx
• Calls over email chains• Collaboration tools
– Wikis, Jira, Mingle
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TransparencyTransparency
CommitmentCommitmentAccountabilityAccountability
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FEAR
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Key Takeaways• Challenges faced by BAs in Distributed Agile• Techniques & Tools to overcome these
challenges
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Pankaj [email protected]: pkanchankar