Slides from a presentation given by Lynda Girvan to a meeting of IIBA UK's South West branch on 15 March 2018.

1. Agile Business Analysis
Making projects work
Lynda
Girvan

2. Introduction

3. What is Analysis?
Analysis is not just desirable, it is essential!
The ability to:
• Understand
the
problem
• Uncover
links
and
trends
• Dig
for
informa7on
and
facts
• Evaluate
data
• Ask
why?

4. The big question
What problem are
we trying to solve?

5. What is agile analysis?
Agile
value
&
principles
Business
thinking
Agile
analyst

6. Service thinking
Who
is
the
customer?
What
is
service?
What
is
value?
Someone whose
life is improved
through
experiencing
the service
The application of
capability for the
benefit of another
entity – the customer.
The beneficial
outcome from a
service that is
co-created with
the customer

7. “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a
framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things.”
Peter Senge, 2006
Systems thinking

8. Underu9lisa9on
of
skills
Transport
Inventory
Mo9on
Wai9ng
Overproduc9on
Over-­‐
processing
Defects
Lean thinking – 8 wastes

9. To be Agile the analyst needs to….
!
Apply
business
thinking
!
Understand
their
customer
!
Understand
the
problem
!
Do
just
enough,
just
in
7me
!
Facilitate
collabora7on
!
Extend
toolkit
as
necessary
Agile
business
analysts
need
to…………..

10. Shorten the loop from this….

11. …….to this

12. Provide Business Context

13. Continuous Analysis

14. The T-shaped business analyst
Breadth
Depth

15. How agile business analysis bring
value

16. Lynda
Girvan