Everything you do impacts the end customer. Yes! Even if your project doesn’t seem to touch the end customer, there’s always a connection. Great BAs understand this and help their stakeholders discover the customer connections for every product, project,...
Roadmaps are one of the best and most important tools for project/product teams. When done well, road maps provide tremendous value. When done poorly, I hear things like this from BAs and product owners: “Road maps are a joke around here.” “We...
Many teams struggle with their requirements approach, but it’s especially challenging for teams transitioning from waterfall to agile. If the team neglected requirements planning in waterfall, they assume agile requires even less planning. This leads to even...
I’ve been on the road quite a bit lately, and part of my travels include delivering conference presentations about modernizing requirements. The presentations hit home with those who are feeling the stress of increasing speed, complexity, ambiguity and change. Trends...
I had the opportunity to speak at Agile2017 in Orlando this year. It was a great conference! I connected with so many colleagues & friends and met lots of new friends as well.Besides speaking and networking, I attended some great sessions. The sessions at this...
