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Business Analysts Can Be Product People
Product management roles offer a viable career path for business analysts. This path is especially relevant for business analysts who currently work on custom software development projects in their current role. Here are the stories of four people who shifted from business analysis to product management.
This meeting should be an email, but will people read it?
A look at how asynchronous communication can help address the communication conundrum product managers face with too many meetings and too many emails.
Story Splitting
Story splitting is the act of examining a large backlog item and splitting it into smaller backlog items that provide value and can be delivered in a short time frame.
You can consider story splitting to be a planning technique that helps you organize your backlog into manageable chunks. You can also think of it as an analysis technique that helps you understand a particular backlog item through the act of splitting it into smaller, valuable backlog items.
Example Mapping
Example Mapping is a backlog refinement technique that helps you structure your team’s conversation around a backlog item. The conversation focuses on drawing out all of the relevant acceptance criteria (or rules), related scenarios and pertinent questions associated with the backlog item you are discussing.
Usability Testing
Usability testing is a way to test how intuitive the design, user flows and content is in your product, app or website. Usability testing consists of asking real people who are similar to potential users to perform various tasks on your product. You can use the information gained from this exercise to identify opportunities for improvement in your product’s design, user flows and content.