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The work of business analysis inside agile organizations can be confusing. Does analysis work fit inside the iteration? Or is analysis done in before the iteration? In this episode Scott and Susan talk with guest, Ryland Leyton, Speaker, Trainer, Agile Coach and Senior Business Analyst, about the role & responsibilities of a business analysis professional in an agile environment, the value proposition and benefits to agile from business analysis and how to respond to typical objections and misunderstandings about the role of business analysis in Agile. As always, we take questions from our listeners. Do you have questions about this topic? Ask us a question at live@iiba.org or leave us a voice message on our podcast homepage. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iiba-org/message
Ryland Leyton shares tips and advice from his new book to help you find the right job and grow in your career. The post MBA193: About Your Career appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.
Ryland Leyton is a Certified Business Analyst Professional having worked in the I.T. industry since the late 90s. Ryland is also a conference speaker and an agile coach for the International Institute of Business Analysis as well as author of the book “The Agile Business Analyst: Moving From Waterfall To Agile”. In this episode Ryland talks about the continued popularity of agile, how business need to adapt to new ways of working and why none of your experiences are ever wasted. Ryland also discusses the importance of not being perceived as over confident. To find out more about this episode, visit the show notes page at www.itcareerenergizer.com/e24
Ryland Leyton helps us to flip the script during a job search to be in the right mindset and find the right opportunity. The post Lightning Cast: Flip the Script in Your Job Search appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.
Ryland Leyton shows us how to distinguish ourselves in interviews and in our career. The post MBA134: Distinguishing Yourself in Your Career appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Kent McDonald, Steve Adolph and Ryland Leyton about the state of business analysis and product management in agile product development. They were participants in a weekend workshop where the Agile Alliance and the International Institute of Business Analysis were collaborating to produce a revised version of the Agile Extension to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge. Why listen to this podcast: - Analysis skills are necessary for successful product development - We don’t question and challenge the rationale and strategic alignment of projects enough, which results in lots of waste from doing the wrong projects or building the wrong features in a project - The best return on investment that you can get is to stop wasting your money - Value is hard to define but crucial to identify; the definition of value will be different in every context - Agile methods provide for learning and rapid feedback, which enables us to optimize value and ensure strategic alignment in product development - User stories are conversation placeholders, not orders to be fulfilled Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: bit.ly/2e32o5X - 6m 20s Analysis skills reside in many different roles and doing analysis in agile development is far less prescriptive that has been the case. - 6m 44s You need to have a very comprehensive toolkit and have the ability to relate the tool needed to the context of the work being done. - 9m 13s Advanced organisations are changing when they utilise analysis skills to determine which initiatives should be worked on and how they align with organisation strategy; being able to review these decisions even after an initiative has started, stopping development work when it is no longer valuable. More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ. bit.ly/2e32o5X You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/2cMnjfW
Ryland Leyton, author of The Agile Business Analyst: Moving from Waterfall to Agile, joins us to talk about what it means to be an agile business analyst and how to be successful in an agile environment. The post MBA055: The Agile BA – Interview with Ryland Leyton appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.