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.
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Challenges for Business Analysts in Distributed Agile
Challenges for Business Analysts in Distributed Agile
Pankaj Kanchankar Lead Business Analyst
Key Takeaways• Challenges faced by BAs in Distributed Agile• Techniques & Tools to overcome these
challenges
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
Lack of Shared Vision
Getting time with Product
Management / Business
Across Time Zones…
Source- http://www.qlock.com/
Operational vs Forward looking
Building Relationships
Building relationships …. Across Geographies
FEAR
FEAR
Lack of Shared Vision
Building a Shared Vision- Project Inception
The (typical) start of an engagement
“I’m glad we’re all agreed then.”
Inception aims to get those mental models out
“Ah...”
to iterate and converge on shared understanding
“Ah!”
“I’m glad we’re all agreed then.”
and have everyone moving in the same direction
Building a Shared Vision
• Project Inception– Business Model Canvas– Product In a Box– Story Map
www.businessmodelgeneration.com
Building a Shared Vision
www.innovationGames.com
Building a Shared Vision
Jeff Patton www.agileproductdesign.com
Getting time with Product
Management / Business
Set expectations AND get time commitment during Inception
• 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
Building Relationships
Building Relationships
Building Relationships
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
TransparencyTransparency
CommitmentCommitmentAccountabilityAccountability
FEAR
Key Takeaways• Challenges faced by BAs in Distributed Agile• Techniques & Tools to overcome these
challenges
Pankaj [email protected]: pkanchankar
