"User stories are not requirements", by Emal Bariali

Interesting article that deepens the role of the Business Analysts, and makes it go the extra mile!

The takeaways from the article:

1. Recognize that your output as a BA has huge downstream impacts.
2. Understand that meeting the needs of your downstream stakeholders (the dev team) are as important as meeting the needs of your upstream stakeholders (the business side).
3. Learn what it takes to make sure your downstream stakeholders have what they need to build a solid solution.  A little bit of "systems thinking" will take you a long way to help meet the developer needs.

I would sum it up in something like this:

1. BA work is crucial for downstream 'stakeholders' *
2. The BA works for up and downstream 'stakeholders'
3. Do some System Thinking to be sure the requirements are fully understood by downstream 'stakeholders'

* not sure I agree with this term but it works for now...

It's worth to take a look :)

Here's the full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/user-stories-requirements-emal-bariali-mis-csc?trk=mp-reader-card

Have fun! :)

"The Scrum Guide" - Free eBook :)

Here's a link to the "The Scrum Guide" in the views of Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber:

http://www.scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2016/2016-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf

It intends to be "The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game".
Personally, don't agree with it all, but, hey, nothing like having a critical reading perspective, right? ;)

Nice readings & have fun! :)

"Agile in a nutshell" or, as I prefer to call it, Agile vs the World! :)

Came across a poster with some take aways on Agile.
Interesting!

Here it is:


Original from here, included in an article with some interesting notes and links.
Take a peek: http://blog.crisp.se/2016/10/09/miakolmodin/poster-on-agile-in-a-nutshell-with-a-spice-of-lean?utm_content=buffer06d53&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Have fun! :)

Back to business!!

Been gone for a while, gosh......
Too much work, too much work clutter!
But now, the house is starting to become tidy, so, let's get back to business! :)

Welcome again!

“Want Better Collaboration – don’t be so defensive”, by James (Jim) Tamm

Great article on collaborative/non-collaborative work environments!

It started with a discussion of research done on chickens and looked at the differences between collaborative and non-collaborative groups of chickens.  In non-collaborative groups of chickens the star performers become the stars by suppressing the egg production of other chickens – they look better because they cause others to be less effective.  He related that to many organisational environments and the behaviour of star performers in companies.

From here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/agile2015-closing-keynote

Enjoy!

Mind maps - You gotta love them!

Mind maps are a creative and much more interesting way, in my perspective, of taking notes, instead of those boring huge reports that we rarely read again...

Here's an example of a use to it:
http://ebgconsulting.com/blog/amplify-learning-with-mind-maps/

Enjoy!
And have fun! :-):-)

How to keep focus in an era of distractions (in Portuguese)!

:)