| RE: [epf-dev] EPF Outreach: Upload of Agile Business Analyst to Google Group |
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Hi Jan Are you planning to attend Agile
2009 this year? Mike Cottemyer and myself have submitted an "agile BA
workshop" proposal. This is not a tutorial hiding as a workshop, but a
real old fashion workshop where we ask people "what are the issues for
integrating agile practices and principles with the objectives of business
analysis" Hopefully this workshop will be accepted. If you're in Chicago
this summer this may be of interest to you. Agility and requirements are a
huge area of interest to me - I make a lot of my living consulting in this area
- and many people (on both sides of the fence) have developed a mindset that
agility excludes analysis. In my view "agility restores sanity to
analysis" to paraphrase Jim Highsmith. best regards, Steve From:
epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of MASARYK Ján Hi Steve, where can be this
presentation found? definitelly it’s interesting for me. :-) best regards From: epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Adolph Hello Everyone: I have uploaded a copy of a
presentation I will do at SD West next month. This is a 90 minute talk (72
slides ouch!) derived from a 2 day tutorial I have developed. In the tutorial
EPF figures much more prominently, but in a 90 minute talk all I can do is
introduce EPF. Beyond the argument the BA role is not obsolete in the agile
world (and in fact becomes much more relevant) the talk (and tutorial) is
really about process design. I use EPF to illustrate the mechanics, but more
importantly I introduce several patterns (only 4 of which I quickly introduce
here) for guiding the decision making in software process design. This is
definitely the direction I would like to take our outreach activities - a focus
on how to evaluate a situation, a project context, and design a software
process appropriate for that situation. EPF is then a nice way to express that
process and provide a structure for that process (roles, tasks, work products,
guidance etc). Ultimately, I would like to see us have a certification course
along these lines… Anyways, the SD talk should give
you a sample of the direction I think we should go in with this. Just one
favour, since I have not yet presented this topic at SD West, I would
appreciate if this did not get broadcast across the entire public domain yet
until after the conference. By the way if you are not a
member of the EPF Outreach Google group, just drop me a line and I will send
you an invitation. best regards, Steve |