Business Analysis Agility: Delivering Value, Not Just Software

Agile business analysis is essential for delivering real value in agile environments. James and Suzanne Robertson's book "Business Analysis Agility" helps prioritize investments, focus on delivering value, and learn in ways that improve results. It helps uncover the real customer problems hidden behind assumptions and conventional solutions, hypothesize potential solutions, and understand how people, hardware, software, organizations, and other components come together in an optimal customer experience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2019
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)

Delivering real value to your customers requires a deep understanding of their true needs and the problems they genuinely face. This is where agile business analysis comes into play, as it remains crucial in today's fast-paced and dynamic business environments, even more so in agile contexts. In their book "Business Analysis Agility," renowned experts James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson offer invaluable insights on how to perform business analysis effectively in an agile manner.

The Robertsons emphasize the importance of embracing a mindset of experimentation, adaptability, flexibility, and quickness. They guide readers through the process of exploring new ideas, responding to changes and discoveries, maintaining a flexible approach, and accelerating problem-solving. Drawing from their extensive experience spanning hundreds of projects and organizations, the Robertsons provide practical guidance on how to prioritize initiatives, allocate investments wisely, and learn from experiences that enhance outcomes.

One of the key strengths of the book is its ability to uncover the underlying customer problems that may be masked by assumptions and conventional solutions. The Robertsons encourage readers to hypothesize potential solutions and rapidly test them through safe-to-fail probes. By understanding the intricate interplay between people, hardware, software, organizations, and other components, they help readers create optimal customer experiences. The authors also teach readers how to write stories that facilitate the identification of solutions that deliver greater value to customers and the business.

By adopting an agile, nimble, and open-minded mindset, readers can approach problems and projects in a more innovative and collaborative manner. The Robertsons' approach to analytical thinking is valuable to a wide range of professionals, including analysts, developers, team leads, project managers, software architects, and stakeholders at all levels of experience. Whether you are working in agile environments or seeking to enhance your business analysis skills, "Business Analysis Agility" offers valuable insights and practical strategies to help you achieve success.

Weight: 435g
Dimension: 230 x 180 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780134847061