I gave my first professional public presentation today at the CIPS Calgary BA special interest group. The title of my talk was “Getting Agile or How I learned to stop worrying and love the index cards” and the subject was my experience in moving from working as an analyst in structured techniques to being an agile BA.
I’ve attached the ppt if anyone is interested (it’s a biggie – 3.5MB!). I talk about what I think is the difference between agile analysis and what I used to do, how I came to understand stories, what makes an effective story and what I do now as an analyst that I didn’t do before.
It all went rather well. We had a crowded room (70+) and many questions at the end. So I’m quite keen to do some more of this kind of thing.
Getting Agile or how I learned to stop worrying and love the index cards.ppt
Enjoyed your presentation. The organization I work for adopted an “agile” attitude towards software development about a year ago. There was early and enthusiastic adoption by the PM and development group, with the BA group enthusiastic but struggling to find their sweet spot. Like you they were evolving from large Use Case / specification documents to lighter weight, just in time acceptance criteria, etc. Fortunately 4 of them attended your presentation.
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Very nice! I can see this progression with many traditional BA’s.