Tag: agile

Interview with Ryland Leyton, author of “The Agile Business Analyst”

Interview with Ryland Leyton, author of “The Agile Business Analyst”

by | Oct 1, 2015 | , | 2 |

Ryland Leyton recently released his book, The Agile Business Analyst: Moving from Waterfall to Agile. Over the years, Ryland has provided training and mentoring for events and individual members of the Greater Atlanta Chapter of IIBA, so I was thrilled to see him take pen to paper and share his insights through a medium with broader reach. Ryland agreed to provide some additional information and background on the thought process behind the book for Practical Analyst readers.

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Agile and Traditional Methodologies Compared…. Again

Agile and Traditional Methodologies Compared…. Again

by | Mar 16, 2009 | | 2 |

This post is spurred by a few articles I’ve read recently which have only served to reinforce some similar thoughts I’ve been having for a while now on the constant, competitively toned comparisons between agile and traditional development methodologies.

As I read article after article extolling the wonders of these new methodologies against the weaknesses of the traditional methods, I begin to wonder if the emphasis isn’t too much on agile methodologies over agile principles.

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Free Scrum & XP Project Tracking Tool

by | Nov 16, 2008 | | 3 |

We don’t use SCRUM or XP in my shop, but I am always interested in learning more about other methods and tools, and I know some of my readers use these methodologies, so I thought I’d share some information on Sprintometer, a free SCRUM & XP project tracking tool.

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Documentation is No Substitute for Interaction

Documentation is No Substitute for Interaction

by | May 13, 2008 | | 2 |

I’ve long been of the opinion that involving as many stakeholders in the project as early as possible is a key to successful business analysis, and, more importantly, to successful projects, and have said as much in a few of my posts on this site.

Jim Highsmith, in the book Agile project management : creating innovative products, thinks that the reason projects tend to have so much documentation and so few results is that:

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