Archives: agile

Agile and the BA – Part 1

Agile approaches are becoming more common for software development projects. This blog and several future blogs will discuss concepts important in agile approaches from the perspective of a business analyst. The first concept to be explored is collaboration. Organizations that are successful implementing agile approaches typically agree to support one main Agile Manifesto principle which is [...]

User Stories

As I hear more and more BAs talking about user stories I feel the need to begin a dialogue on our blog. User stories have been promoted by the iterative and agile software development approaches as a quick way to elicit and document user requirements. Some BAs are being told that user stories are the [...]