July 9, 2013

Introducing the Agile Extension to

the BABOK Guide

Vision and Mission

The world's leading association for
Business Analysis professionals
Develop and maintain standards for
the practice of business analysis and
for the certification of its practitioners

IIBA is an international not-for-profit

professional association for
business analysts.
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Todays Webinar
Introductions and housekeeping

What the presentation is about

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M aur een M cVey,

Head of Lear ning and Development, IIBA

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Maureen McVey, CBAP has 16+ years of experience

as a business analyst and is a founding member of
IIBA.Ms. McVey has provided business analysis
services for many different industry sectors including;
banking, finance, insurance, government, policing and manufacturing
and has been working within the I.T. industry for over 25 years.
As the Head of Learning and Development, Ms. McVey is accountable
to business analysts in the areas of competency and career
development. She supports corporations by providing process and
business analyst competency assessments. Ms. McVey assesses
academic business analysis programs ensuring alignment of those
programs to the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
(BABOK ) and Competency Assessment Model v 3.0
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Shane Hastie, MIM, CBAP

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Chief Knowledge Engineer & Agile Practice Lead for

Software Education, an EEP based in Australia &
New Zealand (www.softed.com)
Board Member of the Agile Alliance (www.agilealliance.org) since 2011

30+ Years in a broad variety of IT roles

Practicing Business Analyst for most of that time
Passionate Agilest since discovering XP in 1999
Program director for the joint IIBA & Agile Alliance
program that produced the Agile Extension
Member of the Core Team writing
BABOK Guide V3.0
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Kevin Brennan, CBAP,

Kevin Brennan, CBAP, PMP, is the Chief

Business Analyst and E.V.P. for IIBA. He led
the development of Version 2.0 of The Business
Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide) and
was also one of the authors of the CBAP exam. He is
a frequent speaker on business analysis, project
management, and software quality assurance topics
at conferences. Kevin has over a decade of
experience as a business analyst and project
manager across several industry sectors.
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Question and Answer

How to Ask Questions

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Selected questions w ill be answ er ed at the end, but you can

ask at any time.

Shor t, specif ic questions, please!

Shane Hastie

Kevin Brennan

Maureen McVey
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The Agile Alliance

The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization with

global membership, committed to advancing Agile
development principles and practices.
Agile Alliance supports those who explore and
apply Agile principles and practices in order to
make the software industry more productive,
humane and sustainable. We share our passion to
deliver software better everyday.
www.agilealliance.org
www.agilemanifesto.org
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Why the Agile Extension

Perceived lack of understanding of the
importance of analysis and the business
analyst role in parts of the agile community

Concern among business analysis
practitioners regarding where they fit in
agile

What practices are useful, and
which may not apply

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Business Analysis & Agile

We dont just write code like free-form

poetry
James King

Analysis is so important we do it all the

time
Scott Ambler

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The Pathway to the Agile Extension

Slow start

Agile 2010 workshop

Partnership with Agile Alliance

Agile 2011 writing weekend

Initial draft for review

1000+ feedback items

Finalised early 2013

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Structure of the Agile Extension

Introduction

Business Analysis in Agile Approaches

Mapping to A Guide to the Business
Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK
Guide)

Agile Extension Framework

Discovery
Delivery
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The Framework

Discovery
See the whole
Think as a customer
Analyze to determine what is valuable

Delivery
Get real using examples
Understand what is doable
Stimulate collaboration & continuous
improvement
Avoid Waste
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The Techniques - Discovery

See the whole

Business Capability Analysis
Personas
Value Stream Mapping

Think as a customer
User Stories
Story Decom position
Story Mapping
Story Elaboration
Storyboarding
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The Techniques - Discovery

Analyze to determine what is valuable

Backlog Management
Business Value Definition
Kano Analysis
MoSCoW Prioritization
Purpose Alignment Model

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The Techniques - Delivery

Get real using examples

Behaviour Driven Developm ent (BDD)

Understand what is doable

Relative Estimation
Planning Workshop
Real Options

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The Techniques - Delivery

Simulate collaboration & continuous

improvement
Collaborative Games
Retrospectives

Avoid Waste
Lightweight Documentation

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What Next?
As with all such initiatives, never Done

A number of feedback items deferred for
next release

Seeking more feedback

Let us know how it can be improved
contact Agile@IIBA.org

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Where to Purchase Agile Extension

PDF Free to Members of IIBA and Agile
Alliance

Non members can purchase a PDF

Bulk orders print - AgileOrders@IIBA.org

Bulk orders PDF Agile@IIBA.org

Single print orders can be purchased
through Amazon

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Acknowledgements
Kevin Brennan

David Morris
Ellen Gottesdiener
Shane Hastie
Dennis Stevens
Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Steve Adolph
Odd Erik Dahlen
Mary Gorman
Michael Hugos
Steven Mak
Sylvain Michel

David O'Brien
Portia Tung
Susan Block
David C. Cook
Peter Gordon
Brian Hemker
Marsha Hughes
Chris Matts
Ali Mazer
Maureen McVey
Luiz Claudio Parzianello
Carol Scalice
Paul Stapleton, Editor
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What Next?

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For More Information

IIBA.org/Agile
Agile@IIBA.org

www.IIBA.org
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