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

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Investigate the Solution Space

• The scope of the solution space• Why business events make your investigation easier• Investigating the business events• Why don’t I skip analysis and just write stories?• Creative observation • Classifying the culture

We want to start this chapter by saying that investigation is not necessarily a separate activity. When you were doing your safe-to-fail probes, you would have investigated the processes and the environment to ensure that the proposed solution both solves the problem and is feasible to construct. When you are designing your solution (next chapter), you’ll find it necessary to investigate other aspects of the solution space to make your design seamless with its environment. During backlog refinement ...