The Role of the Agile Business Analyst

What is the role of the Agile Business Analyst?  In this presentation to the Austin IIBA chapter, David Hawks, the CEO of Agile Velocity, talks about:

  • What are iterative requirements and how to do them
  • What are the roles of the product owner and how does the business analyst relate
  • How to create user stories
  • Incremental and iterative evolution of a story
  • Explanation of backlog physics

The Role of the Business Analyst in Agile

 

Business Analyst Roles:

BA as Product Owner

  • Share knowledge
  • Authority
  • Time

BA as ScrumMaster

  • Focus on helping the team
  • Supports the Product Owner
  • Becomes the master at Agile and Scrum

BA stays as BA

  • Supports the product owner
  • Supports the developers
  • Supports User and QA

 

For more information on Agile roles and org structures:

Organizational Alignment Will Make Or Break Your Agile Transformation

How To Find Your Next Product Owner