Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning, The

How Product Owners and Business Analysts can maximize the value delivered to stakeholders by integrating BA competencies with agile methodologies "This book will become a staple reference that both product owners and business analysis practitioners should have
by their side."
-- From the Foreword by Alain Arseneault, former IIBA Acting President & CEO
"[This book] is well organized in bite-sized chunks and structured for ready access to the essential concepts, terms, and practices that can help any agile team be more successful."
-- Karl Wiegers

The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning provides practical guidance for eliminating unnecessary errors and delays in agile productdevelopment through effective planning, backlog refinement and acceptance criteriaspecification ---with hard-to-find advice on how and when to analyze the context for complex changes within an agile approach---including when to useJourney Maps, Value Stream Mapping, Personas, Story Maps, BPMN, Use Cases andotherUMLmodels.Renowned author and consultant Howard Podeswa teaches best practices drawn from agile and agile-adjacent frameworks, including ATDD, BDD, DevOps, CI/CD, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, XP, Lean Thi...