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To deliver real value, you must understand what your customers truly value, and solve the problems they really need solved. Business analysis can help you do this—and it’s as crucial in agile environments now as it always has been. In Business Analysis Agility, leading experts James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson show how to perform business analysis in an agile way: trying new things, adapting to changes and discoveries, staying flexible, and being quick. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience of hundreds of projects and organisations, the Robertsons help you prioritise relentlessly, focus investments on delivering value, and learn in ways that improve your results. Uncover the real customer problems hidden behind assumptions and conventional solutions Hypothesise potential solutions and quickly test them with safe-to-fail probes Understand how people, hardware, software, organisations, and other components come together in an optimal customer experience Write stories that help you find solutions that deliver more value to customers and the business Think about problems and projects in more agile, nimble, and open-minded ways The Robertsons’ approach to analytical thinking will be valuable to anyone who wants to build better software in agile environments: analysts, developers, team leads, project managers, software architects, and other team members and stakeholders at all levels of experience.

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James and Suzanne have brought their deep and wide experience in business and systems analysis to bear on the importance of good analysis in agile domains. They cut through the hype and tackle the misconceptions that are rife around agile analysis by providing concrete advice and useful tools for anyone undertaking the vital analysis activities in agile development. --Shane Hastie, Director of Agile Learning Programs - ICAgile; Lead Editor - Culture & Methods, InfoQ.com What is a user story but a requirement? But is it the right requirement? The user said it was, but how does the user know? And how can you discover it? Two words: Step back. If you step back--and this book shows you how to do that--you can discover the real requirement. Why do you do this? It's the only way to deliver real value to your customer. And what could be more agile than that? --Stephen J. Mellor, Signatory to the Agile Manifesto This new book is a must-have for business analysts looking to bridge the gap between agile and other development approaches. It combines the best of both, into clear and simple guidance, presented in a delightful and light style. --Neil Maiden, Professor of Digital Creativity, Cass Business School, City, University of London Business Analysis Agility provides the express on-ramp that business process change projects have sorely needed. --Stephen McMenamin, Ex CIO & VP of Hawaiian Electric The Robertsons share a plethora of tools and techniques that help you infuse agility in your business analysis. The book includes multiple examples and lively scenarios that engage and invite smart problem and solution exploration. --Ellen Gottesdiener, Agile Product Coach, Founder EBG Consulting

James and Suzanne have brought their deep and wide experience in business and systems analysis to bear on the importance of good analysis in agile domains. They cut through the hype and tackle the misconceptions that are rife around agile analysis by providing concrete advice and useful tools for anyone undertaking the vital analysis activities in agile development. - Shane Hastie, Director of Agile Learning Programs - ICAgile; Lead Editor - Culture & Methods, InfoQ.com What is a user story but a requirement? But is it the right requirement? The user said it was, but how does the user know? And how can you discover it? Two words: Step back. If you step back-and this book shows you how to do that-you can discover the real requirement. Why do you do this? It's the only way to deliver real value to your customer. And what could be more agile than that? - Stephen J. Mellor, Signatory to the Agile Manifesto This new book is a must-have for business analysts looking to bridge the gap between agile and other development approaches. It combines the best of both, into clear and simple guidance, presented in a delightful and light style. - Neil Maiden, Professor of Digital Creativity, Cass Business School, City, University of London Business Analysis Agility provides the express on-ramp that business process change projects have sorely needed. - Stephen McMenamin, Ex CIO & VP of Hawaiian Electric The Robertsons share a plethora of tools and techniques that help you infuse agility in your business analysis. The book includes multiple examples and lively scenarios that engage and invite smart problem and solution exploration. - Ellen Gottesdiener, Agile Product Coach, Founder EBG Consulting

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James Robertson is a business analyst, problem solver, author, speaker, instructor, photographer, designer, and coach. He trained as an architect but left that for a career in IT and the sociological side of technology. He left the security of employment in Australia to move and start his own company (with his brilliant wife) in the United Kingdom. Since then he has gone on to co-author seven books, numerous courses, and the Volere requirements techniques and templates, which have been adopted by organizations all over the world as their standard for gathering, discovering, communicating, tracing, and specifying solution needs. Suzanne Robertson is having a stellar career in information technology and systems engineering. She is a teacher, practitioner, writer, instructor, and guide. Suzanne is a pioneer in adapting ideas from other domains for automated solutions. She has collaborated in workshops using experts from fields as diverse as modern music, visualization, and cookery. Ideas from these domains were adapted to make major breakthroughs in creative ideas for domains ranging from air traffic control to local government. She is co-author of the best-selling Mastering the Requirements Process, among other books and courses. She is co-creator of the Volere requirements techniques. She was the founding editor of the Requirements Column in IEEE Software. She has also made an impact in the socio-technical arena. This includes research and consulting on managing project sociology, both individually and as collaborative efforts between business, technology, and academia.

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