Top Business Analysis Trends of 2013: BAs Will Be Seen as the Keystone to Adopting Agile

Modern businesses require effective business analysis in order to be successful in a competitive world. Business analysis involves taking information gathered from a variety of sources and analyzing to forecast future trends, find ways to make improvements in business strategies, improve businesses operations, and make smart business decisions to improve the bottom line. Understanding key marketing areas is essential to helping a business generate revenue and cut down on excess waste. 

According to Nancy Nee, vice president of Global Product Strategy, ESI International, there are some key business analysis trends that will be prominent in 2013.

At its core, Agile is all about requirements from the perspective of user stories, according to Yee. In 2013 if organizations are going to embrace Agile, they need to focus on the keystone to success of Agile, which is business analysis.

If they don’t have a current business analyst role, they will at least embrace the function of business analysis because at the end of the day Agile success is all about requirements and that is what BAs do because they are able to define user stories and be able to deliver value which is what Agile is about.

Check out Nee’s entire video below:

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P.S. Listen to Nee’s archived recording of her recent webinar entitled, “Developing Agile Requirements.” To hear her interesting insights on PMs and BAs in agile, click here!

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Top Business Analysis Trends of 2013: Strong User Stories Will Drive Effective Requirements Analysis

Now more than ever, businesses of all shapes and sizes require effective business analysis to be successful in this highly competitive business world. Business analysis involves taking information gathered from a variety of sources and analyzing to forecast future trends, finding ways to make improvements in business strategies, improving operations, and making strategic decisions to improve the overall bottom line.

Moving through 2013, according to Nancy Yee, vice president of Global Product Strategy, ESI International, there are key business analysis trends that will be prominent and that businesses should embrace this year. The second significant business analysis trend of 2013 is strong user stories will be the force driving effective requirements analysis and product backlog prioritization

If the BA is already working with the product owner the BA needs go back to the roots of what they know, being able to elicit and analyze requirements in the form of a user story.

In 2013, BAs must return to the grassroots of what you know in requirements management development and get in sync with your inner elicitation and analysis requirements, focusing on the perspective of developing user stories.

“Using what you already know from an analysis standpoint, you will create successful user stories that will help your product owner prioritize their product backlog and deliver value at every iteration,” she commented.

Be sure to register for Yee’s upcoming webinar, Developing Effective Agile Requirements. Click here for more information:  http://bit.ly/10haSfj

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