The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning: From Strategic Plan to Continuous Value Delivery
by: Howard Podeswa
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (March 25,2021)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 356 pages
ISBN-10: 0134191129
ISBN-13: 9780134191126
Book Description
Complete Agile Roadmap for Analyzing Customer Needs and Planning Product Development
“This book will become a staple reference that both product owners and business analysis practitioners should have
by their side.”
— From the Foreword by Alain Arseneault,former IIBA Acting President & CEO
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 analyzing 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 maximize value delivery throughout the product’s 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 organizations
Implement 13 practices for optimizing enterprise agility
Supported by 175+ tools,techniques,examples,diagrams,templates,checklists,and other job aids,this book is a complete toolkit for every practitioner. Whatever your role,you’ll find indispensable guidance on agile planning and analysis responsibilities so you can help your organization respond more nimbly to a fast-changing environment.
