Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning, The by Howard Podeswa The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning presents clear, actionable guidance for every product owner, product and program manager, business analyst, requirements engineer, and project manager seeking to improve agile analysis and planning. Renowned author and consultant Howard Podeswa teaches best practices drawn from agile and agile-adjacent frameworks, including ATDD, BDD, DevOps, CI/CD, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, XP, Lean Thinking, Lean Startup, Circumstance-Based Market Segmentation, and theories of disruptive innovation. He offers a comprehensive agile roadmap for analysing customer needs and planning product development, including discussion of legacy business analysis tools that still offer immense value to agile teams. Using a running case study, Podeswa walks through the full agile product lifecycle, from visioning through release and continuous value delivery. You learn how to carry out agile analysis and planning responsibilities more effectively, using tools such as Kano analysis, minimum viable products (MVPs), minimum marketable features (MMFs), story maps, product roadmaps, customer journey mapping, value stream mapping, spikes, and the definition of ready (DoR). Podeswa presents each technique in context: what you need to know and when to apply each tool. Read this book to Master principles, frameworks, concepts, and practices of agile analysis and planning in order to maximise value delivery throughout the products lifecycle Explore planning and analysis for short-term, long-term, and scaled agile initiatives using MVPs and data-informed learning to test hypotheses and find high-value features Split features into MMFs and small stories that deliver significant value and enable quick wins Refine, estimate, and specify features, stories, and their acceptance criteria, following ATDD/BDD guidance Address the unique analysis and planning challenges of scaled agile organisations Implement 13 practices for optimising enterprise agility FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Howard Podeswa is Director for Noble Inc. and is an established author, professional artist, and sought-after speaker at international conferences. Podeswas career in software development began with an academic background in nuclear physics, which led to him work on a nuclear-accident simulation program for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. From the 1990s on, he has been helping large organizations transition their planning, analysis, and requirements engineering (RE) processes to agile practices across a broad range of sectors, including telecommunications, banking, government services, insurance, and healthcare. He plays a leading role in the industry as a designer of agile and business analysis (BA) training programs for companies and higher education institutions, including Boston University Corporate Education Center and Humber College; as a reviewer of the BA professions standard books of best practices ( BABOK (IIBA) and Business Analysis for Practitioners—A Practice Guide (PMI)); and as an author whose books have become staples in many BA libraries: The Business Analysts Handbook and UML for the IT Business Analyst. Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Art of Agile Analysis and Planning Chapter 2: Agile Analysis and Planning: The Value Proposition Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Agile Analysis and Planning Chapter 4: Analysis and Planning Activities across the Agile Development Lifecycle Chapter 5: Preparing the Organization Chapter 6: Preparing the ProcessChapter 7: Visioning Chapter 8: Seeding the Backlog—Discovering and Grading Features Chapter 9: Long-Term Agile Planning Chapter 10: Quarterly and Feature Preparation Chapter 11: Quarterly and Feature Planning Chapter 12: MVPs and Story MapsChapter 13: Story Preparation Chapter 14: Iteration and Story Planning Chapter 15: Rolling Analysis and Preparation—Day-to-Day Activities Chapter 16: Releasing the Product Chapter 17: Scaling Agility Chapter 18: Achieving Enterprise Agility Appendix A: Additional Resources and ChecklistsAppendix B: Discovery-Driven Planning Case Study: BestBots Long Description Agile projects require extensive direct communication between developers and the business. This means they depend more than ever on individuals who can structure those conversations for maximum benefit, and apply appropriate business analysis techniques wherever these offer value. Whatever your title or project role, this guide will help you perform these crucial tasks. Howard Podeswa walks you through an integrated case study project from inception through to completion, offering detailed, step-by-step guidance for performing analysis across the entire agile lifecycle. Youll learn which tools to use, when to use them, how to "stage" agile analysis, and how to adapt analysis for agile projects while protecting the chain from business needs to solutions. Youll learn how to engage more productively with the business by applying a wide range of analysis tools, including use cases, user stories, Business Process Modeling (BPM), decision tables, traceability matrices, and structural modeling. Podeswa shows how to write effective acceptance criteria for agile projects using the powerful BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) Given/When/Then template. He covers analysis for release plan preparation, sprints, backlog management, and retrospectives; and offers a full chapter of guidance on scaling analysis for large agile projects. If youre already an analyst, Podeswa will help you transition to agile. If youre an agile project owner or developer, hell help you leverage analysis techniques to deliver far more value to your business customers. Feature The first practical guide to performing crucial Business Analysis (BA) functions on an agile project Helps you adapt agile business analysis practices to any organizations projects and business environment Covers agile use cases, user stories, business process modeling, decision tables, structural modeling, and more Shows how to structure the interview process to ask the right questions at the right time Offers practical guidance on when to use each analysis tool, which techniques to perform upfront, and what to do later Details ISBN0134191129 Author Howard Podeswa Short Title PRAC GT AGILE BUSINESS ANALYSI Language English ISBN-10 0134191129 ISBN-13 9780134191126 Media Book Format Paperback Country of Publication United States DEWEY 658.40354 Year 2021 Subtitle From Strategic Plan to Continuous Value Delivery Edited by Julian Little Birth 1875 Death 1955 Affiliation Major General, United States Air Force Position Major General Qualifications J.D. Imprint Addison Wesley Place of Publication Boston AU Release Date 2021-04-12 NZ Release Date 2021-04-12 UK Release Date 2021-04-12 Pages 800 Publisher Pearson Education (US) Audience Professional & Vocational Publication Date 2021-04-19 US Release Date 2021-04-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:119255726;
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ISBN-13: 9780134191126
Book Title: Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning, The
Author: Howard Podeswa
Publication Name: The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning: from Strategic Plan to Continuous Value Delivery
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Pearson Education (Us)
Subject: Computer Science
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 1160 g
Number of Pages: 800 Pages
