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Business Analysis Agility: Delivering Value, Not Just Software de James Robertson

Business Analysis Agility: Delivering Value, Not Just Software

Autor James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 noi 2018

Diferențiindu-se de documentația oficială rigidă prin focalizarea pe agilitatea mentală, Business Analysis Agility: Delivering Value, Not Just Software propune o schimbare de paradigmă: analiza de business nu este o fază preliminară, ci un proces continuu de adaptare. Remarcăm abordarea pragmatică a autorilor James Robertson și Suzanne Robertson, care depășesc simpla colectare de cerințe pentru a explora „spațiul soluției” prin experimente controlate. Structura cărții urmărește o progresie logică, de la definirea valorii pentru client (Capitolul 2) până la tehnici de scriere a poveștilor utilizatorului care să genereze rezultate concrete, nu doar documente (Capitolul 6). Subliniem utilizarea probelor „safe-to-fail” ca instrument de validare a ipotezelor, o metodă care transformă incertitudinea în învățare accelerată. Complementar volumului How To Be An Agile Business Analyst de Kent J McDonald, care se concentrează pe rolul analistului în echipă, lucrarea soților Robertson extinde cadrul către ecosistemul complet — oameni, procese și tehnologie. De asemenea, spre deosebire de Business Analysis Done Right de Karolina Zmitrowicz, care pune accent pe evitarea capcanelor în ingineria cerințelor, acest volum prioritizează viteza de reacție și „nimbleness” (agilitatea) în fața schimbărilor de piață. Apreciem modul în care experiența autorilor în consultanță este distilată în exemple care demonstrează cum analiza de business eficientă elimină risipa de resurse. Deși James Robertson este cunoscut în alte contexte literare pentru lucrări precum 365 sau News of the Dead, expertiza sa tehnică aici este riguroasă, fiind ancorată în realitățile dezvoltării software moderne și în necesitatea de a livra produse pe care oamenii chiar le doresc.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780134847061
ISBN-10: 0134847067
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 178 x 232 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1. Auflage
Editura: Pearson

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Despre autor

James Robertson și Suzanne Robertson sunt consultanți de renume mondial și co-fondatori ai The Atlantic Systems Guild. Sunt arhitecții metodei Volere pentru specificarea cerințelor, aplicată în mii de organizații la nivel global. James Robertson are o carieră diversă, contribuind atât în domeniul politicilor guvernamentale britanice (1953-1965), cât și în literatură, însă expertiza sa principală rămâne analiza sistemelor. Împreună, autorii au instruit mii de profesioniști, transformând analiza de business dintr-o sarcină administrativă într-o componentă critică a agilității organizaționale, bazându-se pe experiența acumulată în sute de proiecte complexe.

Notă biografică

James Robertson is a business analyst, problem solver, author, speaker, instructor, photographer, designer, and coach. He trained as an architect but left that for a career in IT and the sociological side of technology.

He left the security of employment in Australia to move and start his own company (with his brilliant wife) in the United Kingdom. Since then he has gone on to co-author seven books, numerous courses, and the Volere requirements techniques and templates, which have been adopted by organizations all over the world as their standard for gathering, discovering, communicating, tracing, and specifying solution needs.

James' career is broad, both in a geographical sense and the areas and systems that he has worked with. It is fair to say that James has worked on almost every type of commercial IT project-from a start as a programmer in a software development house in Sydney, to consulting in New York, London, Rome, and most European capitals. He has earned his experience at the sharp end of both project and research work.

He divides his time between London and the French Alps. He skis for as much of the winter as demands on his time allow, and hikes all summer.

Suzanne Robertson is having a stellar career in information technology and systems engineering. She is a teacher, practitioner, writer, instructor, and guide.

Suzanne is a pioneer in adapting ideas from other domains for automated solutions. She has collaborated in workshops using experts from fields as diverse as modern music, visualization, and cookery. Ideas from these domains were adapted to make major breakthroughs in creative ideas for domains ranging from air traffic control to local government.

She is co-author of the best-selling Mastering the Requirements Process, among other books and courses. She is co-creator of the Volere requirements techniques. She was the founding editor of the Requirements Column in IEEE Software.

She has also made an impact in the socio-technical arena. This includes research and consulting on managing project sociology, both individually and as collaborative efforts between business, technology, and academia.

Her experience with different projects in both the private and public sectors has given her experience in a wide variety of systems and locations. She has worked in Europe, Australia, the Far East, and the United States.

Suzanne is a founder and principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. Her other interests include opera, cooking, skiing, and finding out about curious things.

Cuprins

  • Chapter 1: Agile Business Analysis
  • Chapter 2: Do You Know What Your Customers Value?
  • Chapter 3: Are You Solving the Right Problem?
  • Chapter 4: Investigate the Solution Space
  • Chapter 5: Designing the Business Solution
  • Chapter 6: Writing the Right Stories
  • Chapter 7: Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

As a developer, to deliver real value, you must understand what your customers truly value, and solve the problems they really need solved. Business analysis can help you do this-and it's as crucial in agile environments now as it always has been. In Business Analysis Agility, leading experts James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson show how to perform business analysis in an agile way: trying new things, adapting to changes and discoveries, staying flexible, and being quick. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience of hundreds of projects and organizations, the Robertsons help you prioritize relentlessly, focus investments on delivering value, and learn in ways that improve your results. Uncover the real customer problems hidden behind assumptions and conventional solutions Hypothesize potential solutions and quickly test them with safe-to-fail probes Understand how people, hardware, software, organizations, and other components come together in an optimal customer experience Write stories that help you find solutions that deliver more value to customers and the business Think about problems and projects in more agile, nimble, and open-minded ways Solve customers' real problems by integrating effective business analysis with your agile development processes Efficiently deliver software people actually want, because it solves the problems they actually have Indispensable for business analysts who work with agile development teams, and agile team members who want to perform effective business analysis Proven practical content based on in-person courses taught by world-renowned authors James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson