Overview
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In this series, get practical tips and strategies that can help you boost your analytical skills and collaborate more effectively with your agile team.
Syllabus
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Agile Analysis Tips
- A healthy backlog
- Who writes backlog items?
- Know your agile business analyst (BA) and product owner roles
- Effective prioritization
- Making feedback loops a focus
- Focus on customer experience
- Collaborate on testing
- Agile planning: Five levels
- Keep the user at the center
- Keep the user action precise
- Work the acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with others
- Make user stories feedback-able
- Definition of ready/done
- Personas
- Primary personas
- Product hierarchy
- What needs to be documented?
- Experiments
- Hypothesis
- User journey mapping
- Story mapping
- Understanding pain points
- Defining what success looks like
- Force rank prioritization
- Identifying user empathy
- Stay ahead of backlog refinement
- Working the scrum master relationship as a product owner
- Saying no to stakeholders
- Leveraging user feedback
- When to let the team ponder
- Asking the team for alternatives
- Information radiators for product owners
- Metrics product owners care about
- Visual backlog management for product owners
- Swarming on current work
- Making your roadmap and release plan visual
- Observing customers
- Dealing with user story creep
- User story splitting patterns
- Delivering value over staying busy
- Solving problems over building features
- Needs vs. guesses
- Planning with stakeholders (mid to long term)
- Encouraging swarming and finishing
- Focus on the problem or outcome, not the solution
- Managing stakeholder expectations of MVP
- Analyzing story maps for gaps
- Outcomes over outputs
- Defining good outcomes
- Create an agile project charter
- Test early and often, even as a product owner
