📅 prep

Delivering solutions

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  1. Agile and others
  2. Prioritisation
  3. Change Management
  4. Presentation
  5. Stretch prep

🤖 Agile and others

Learning Objectives

Enrol in this Udemy course and jump to video 14 (What is Scrum?) in section 5. Watch this video to review Scrum basics.

Stretch: Watch any of the subsequent videos in section 5 if you would like to drill into any more details.

🤖 Prioritisation

Learning Objectives

Now let’s try and apply our knowledge of Agile business analysis in the BrightStar project:

  1. Prepare an initial backlog for Brightstar (5-20 backlog items, depending on the level of detail. You may use Epic, Feature and Story types of backlog items.)
    Use GitHub projects to document this.
    This GitHub page explains more details. You can use the Milestone feature as an Epic.

  2. Read about prioritisation techniques and describe how you would approach setting priorities for your backlog items.

  3. Formulate a Definition of Ready for the BrightStar product development process

  4. Describe how you would go about setting sprint goals and how you would reflect these decisions in the backlog

  5. Describe the MVP for your planned BrightStar development

  6. Formulate a Definition of Done for backlog items Consider how you would measure the success of your initial deliverables, using OKR/KPI where relevant

  7. Consider how feedback from your sprint deliverables would affect your prioritisation and goal setting for later sprints

🤖 Change management

Learning Objectives

Learn and reflect on these questions, so you can understand how change affects your work.

  1. What is change management, and how does it affect the BA?

  2. What is the difference between change management and organisational change management?

  3. What are scope changes, and how should you deal with them?

  4. How could change management conflict with Agile principles? How would you handle this conflict pragmatically?

  5. Thinking about the roadmap you built, how will change management be part of your MVP?

🤖 Present your learnings

Learning Objectives

Build the presentation of how you applied the key learnings of this week to the Bright Sparks case study.

The people in class can be the stakeholders and will evaluate your work.

The presentation must be less than 10 minutes long.

🤖 Stretch: Retrospective and Roadmap

Learning Objectives

Do you want to learn something extra?

  • Plan and prepare a Retrospective for your BrightStar scrum team. Consider that it can be a hybrid team. Think about the board, how you want the interaction to be, how you want to lead it.

  • Read about Roadmaps and prepare a Roadmap for the next 2-4 product increments (a product increments might be one quarter of the year, for example) of your BrightStar solution