Agile Business Analysts, Melbourne

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• Why Agile Business Analysis Is Failing with Graeme Matthew

  Tue, 9 Oct 2012, 07:00 - 10:00 in , Australia

  I have reflected back on a number of agile projects and the same agile business analysis problems keep coming up. These problems cause major pain from stakeholders to the teams and I feel are contributing a large amount to project delivery failure.This talk will highlight why agile business analysis is failing and a way to solve it by encouraging people to build a mindset ('seeing') to realise behaviour and information flow.

• Two topics: 1. My Agile journey (pt1) and 2. Requirements Elaboration

  Tue, 11 Sep 2012, 08:00 - 11:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Part 1: My agile journey (Part 1)Hi there,I'm Andrea, a new 'Agile' Business Analyst at Swinburne University and I'd like to share with you my recent experiences as the Product Backlog Manager for a couple of small projects.Part 2: Requirements ElaborationBrent Snook facilitates an exploration into requirements elaboration in an agile context. When to do it, how much is too much, etc.

• Managing Agile Business Analysts

  Tue, 14 Aug 2012, 08:00 - 11:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  What issues to analysts, line and practice managers and project managers face as analysts transition to an agile way of working?If you are a BA manager in particular we'd love to hear from you and maybe get you involved in the facilitation of this session.

• The IIBA present the Agile extension to the BABOK.

  Tue, 10 Jul 2012, 08:00 - 11:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  The IIBA present the Agile extension to the BABOK.

• Meet the Agile recruiters

  Tue, 12 Jun 2012, 08:00 - 11:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Want to know what's going on in the Agile recruitment space in Melbourne?This month we bring you a panel of four recruiters who deal with Agile roles Given our agenda at this group there will be a particular focus on BA, PM and QA type gigs.If you have particular questions feel free to post them below on this page's comments.

• The Ultimate Agile BA technique (Epic Battle, Fight!)

  Tue, 8 May 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  At this month's Agile BA meetup we share our favourite techniques and search for the ultimate technique - that's right; the one method to rule them all!We will do this via a game;Everyone forms into groups and list their top five techniques explaining why they are useful and giving examples. Teams then meet other teams and vote on their favourite five from the two groups. We repeat over and over again until we have an ultimate few, and then the final vote for the ultimate technique.

• Debate: Analysis as a Role v Competency

  Tue, 10 Apr 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  A debate investigating what agile means for the role of a business analyst.Is business analysis a competency or a role on an agile team.Kevin Broughton will be hosting a debate exploring what happens to a BA in an agile world. Two sides will debate two perspectives and the questions and comments will be opened to the audience.What's your experience? How do you think this role debate should play out?  Come along and participate in the discussion.

• Alec Sharp | Agile & Modelling

  Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Software Education is bringing Alec Sharp to Melbourne for a Masterclass in Business Process Management and he has kindly agreed to present to the Agile & Scrum meetup.Alec is extremely informative and always entertaining. Come along and hear what he has to say about Modelling in an Agile world.Summary below;Agile, or something like it, had to emerge. Think about some of the alternatives – voluminous BRDs (Business Requirements Documents)

• Monthly Agile BA meet-up (schedule a topic!)

  Wed, 14 Mar 2012, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Shawn Callahan of Anecdote comes and share some tips about storytelling and the importance of narrative when we communicate with our business partners and peers.The Anecdote approach to corporate storytelling is relevant to agile business analysts because it is built upon the ideas of facilitation, discovery, alignment and evolution.the format of this will be a facilitated discussion by Shawn.

• Story Mapping (Workshop a Technique)

  Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  At this month's meet-up we review the concept of the Story Map, per Jeff Patton's model. We will also discuss how other analysis models can also provide a framework for sorting and categorising user stories.The session agenda will look something like this: *Introduction to the topic: 15 minutes *Break into groups and generate a story map from your projects or a fictional case study: 30 minutes *Review groups outcomes and share learnings: 30 minutes

• Dave Snowden on Strategic kowledge

  Wed, 9 Nov 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Dave Snowden is on an ACS sponsored tour of Australia. Detail at the ACS website.

• Requirements Traceability in Agile Projects

  Tue, 11 Oct 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  A case study of an 18 month project with scope chages tracked and discussion of the responses. Tools used: backlog, excel cumulative flow and control charts. Cross posted to #AgileBA and #LimitedWIP groups

• Release Planning

  Tue, 13 Sep 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Release planning is vital for any project as the sponsor needs to know how long it will take. This talk focuses on building an effective and reliable release plan for small and large projects. Release planning is a large topic and the talk will focus on the core practical steps on establishing a reliable release plan.Brett Maytom is a Senior Consultant for Readify, Melbourne Australia. Brett has been in the industry for past 23 year working with various development languages and platforms.

• Talk about the role of the Business Analyst in an Agile context

  Tue, 3 May 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  We'll kick off with a short presentation by Reg on his experience and views and follow up with a facilitated game/workshop by Tony on defining what we think an Agile BA really is.And maybe have a beer afterward.

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