How discovery helps you build the right product
A set of discovery techniques from the worlds of business analysis and product management.
How to build shared understanding with example mapping
Overview If you want the solution you’re building to meet its desired outcome, you need product people, testers, and developers to have a shared understanding of what that solution is. That includes knowing how the solution should behave in key situations. Conversations are an effective way to build that shared understanding. You may wonder who …
Beyond the BA Role: Charting a Path to Product Ownership
This session explores the perspective and skills necessary to successfully move from business analysis to product ownership.
Business Analysts are product people too!
This talk introduces the product model, describes “product people” and explains the relevance for business analysts.
‘Tis Better to be effective than efficient
Overview Better. Faster. Cheaper. Many IT organizations are constantly seeking the “best” practices that will deliver those characteristics, and the fact that they continue to search indicates they haven’t found them yet. It could be they are looking in the wrong place. Most efforts around achieving better, faster, cheaper center around becoming ultra efficient. Effectiveness …
Filters not Buckets: A prioritization presentation
Prioritization, or more specifically deciding what you will and will not build, is a key decision teams and organizations make on a regular basis. You could even say that it is the most important activity that product people, including business analysts, do. Yet many organizations use ineffective approaches to prioritization that adds more confusion than …
How To Survive and Thrive in a Digital Transformation
This presentation explains how business analysis contributes to successful digital transformations. You’ll also find out how to tell if you’re in a digital transformation in name only and find out how you can make the best of that situation with techniques that are helpful in both circumstances.
Moving from Business Analyst to Product Owner to Product Manager
Learn how to go from a business analyst job to a role as a product owner or product manager based on the experience of those who've done it.
Backlog Refinement: “Writing Stories” isn’t the whole story
Backlog refinement is the often misunderstood activity in agile approaches that business analysts are uniquely qualified to excel at. As long as you understand what it’s intended to accomplish. Hint: “writing stories” isn’t it.