Business Analysis Agility: Solve the Real Problem, Deliver Real Value, First Edition

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Agile Business Analysis

• An example of agile business analysis—Bernie’s Books• People assume they know the solution• Solving the problem for Bernie • Designing Bernie’s solution• Stories for Bernie’s solution • The changing nature of business analysis

Think of the software or the website you are about to build, the consumer product you want to bring to market, the service that your organization is planning to provide, or the device that you are building to sell. Whatever it is that you’re working on, let’s call it your solution. What’s the most important quality your solution must have? Or, to put it in a different way, what is the single quality that, if missed, would cause the solution to be a failure?

Of course your answer is meeting ...