Best Practices
Practices: Agile Business Analysis
In Agile / Scrum ceremonies, a Business Analyst plays a key facilitative and collaborative role, especially when bridging communication between stakeholders and the development team.
🔁 Sprints
- Primary Duty: Ensure that requirements are ready for development.
- To-dos:
- Clarify and validate user stories.
- Confirm acceptance criteria.
- Ensure backlog items align with business objectives.
📣 Daily
- Primary Duty: Observe and support task progress.
- To-dos:
- Listen for blockers that may relate to unclear requirements and follow up after the meeting.
- Clarify the business context for in-progress tasks.
🗂 Sprint Planning
- Primary Duty: Collaborate with Product to define the scope / sprint goals.
- To-dos:
- Help articulate user stories.
- Define detailed acceptance criteria.
- Clarify business priorities to guide what goes into the sprint.
📊 Sprint Reviews
- Primary Duty: Validate delivered functionality with business goals.
- To-dos:
- Facilitate or participate in the demonstration.
- Gather stakeholder feedback.
- Note additional requirements or change requests.
🧠 Sprint Retrospectives
- Primary Duty: Controbute to process improvement discussions.
- To-dos:
- Offer insights on requirement clarity, communication flows, or backlog refinement efficiency.
- Suggest, contribute ideas on enhancing requirement documentation/validation.