Role of the Business Analyst Role of a Business Analyst involves the following activities Understanding the business needs from various stakeholders Eliciting requirements using various techniques Documenting the requirements into requirements specifications, user stories, use cases or various formats Make sure that the requirements are understood by the development teams Test the requirements to make […]
Read MoreProduct is something that satisfies a Business Need. Product delivers value to the stakeholders (internal or external). Product has a clear boundary, customers and achieves some measurable value. A tangible product is a physical object that can be perceived by touch such as a building, vehicle, gadget, or clothing. An intangible product is a product […]
Read MoreProduct Vision provides a high level view about the destiny of the product and defines the end goal for the product. It broadly answers the questions of Why are we doing it? – The reason why we are building What does it solve? – Need for the Product Who are we building it for? – […]
Read MoreProduct lifecycle is a set of stages that a product generally goes through from its envisioning to the product being taken off from the market. Broadly the product lifecycle curve looks like this Development Stage This stage is generally before the launch of your product. You may end up significantly changing your strategy for achievement […]
Read MoreThere are Two ways of looking at our work. The primary constraints of any project include Scope, Cost, Time and Quality. I have represented them in the following diagram as “The Traditional Way” and ” The New Way”. The Traditional way : This is the Scope driven way of looking at the work. In the […]
Read MoreI was part of the vendor team for a large Dutch bank where work was being done in the traditional framework, using multiple vendors. The financial industry had changed drastically from 2008 onward due to a series of events such as separation of banks, mergers of banks, banks going bankrupt, and nationalizations. It was necessary […]
Read MoreThe customer-supplier relationship is a reality for suppliers based in countries such as India, China, or the Southeast Asian countries. I was part of the leadership team of an India-based supplier that brought about a transformational change in a large bank in the Netherlands. One of the things that we (supplier and customer) focused on […]
Read MoreThe requirements in Scrum are called Backlog. Backlog is everything that is yet to be done and not necessarily the activities that the team has fallen behind. The product backlog is an ordered list of requirements that is maintained for a product. It consists of features, bug fixes, non-functional requirements, etc.—whatever needs to be done in order […]
Read MoreInformation radiators in Agile are meant to display information at a public place so that the information can be noticed by as many people as possible without making a conscious effort to do so. Very less people know that the idea of information radiator was invented by Alister Cockburn, who was a big believer in effective […]
Read MoreIt is important to look at ways to overcome the challenge of successfully using Scrum on a large, multi-team project as Agile or scrum is not for all projects but for Complex or complicated projects. 1.1 Scaling the Product Owner role Large Scrum Project consists of many small teams working together. Of course, one Product Owner […]
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