BBC2015 Blog Partner
BeyondRequirements.com is proud to be a Blog Partner for the Building Business Capability 2015 Conference (BBC2015). I'll be writing posts about the conference and can give you a 15% discount to the...
View ArticleBeyond Requirements on Mastering Business Analysis Podcast
About a month ago I was honored to talk with Dave Saboe on his Mastering Business Analysis Podcast. We talked about my forthcoming (for a while now) book Beyond Requirements: Analysis with an Agile...
View ArticleThe Power of Feedback
Feedback is an important ingredient to successful projects. One reason teams use iterative approaches, either time boxed sprints or single piece flow, is that they have the opportunity to get frequent...
View ArticleProduct Ownership Blogs and Newsletters
Here is a list of blogs and newsletters that I go to for frequent insights into areas of product ownership. Take a look and then share some of your favorites.
View ArticleAcceptance Criteria
Acceptance criteria are the conditions that a solution must satisfy to be accepted by a user, a customer, or, in the case of system-level functionality, the consuming system. They are also a set of...
View ArticleTen Powerful Questions for Discovering Acceptance Criteria
Recently, a friend of mine who is an agile coach was asked about powerful questions that a product owner could use when working with their team to discover acceptance criteria. She asked me for my...
View ArticleWhat is Product Ownership?
Product ownership is all about determining the right things to build and utilizes activities from product management, business analysis, and user experience. This post provides my guesses at the...
View ArticleGetting the Most out of Agile2015
Agile2015 is next week in Washington DC so I thought I’d share some ideas for getting the most out of the conference.
View ArticleAgile2015 Highlights
A quick summary of the Agile2015 sessions that I got the most out of. These sessions tended to discuss fairly simple techniques but did a deep enough dive that I was able to get some good nuggets out...
View ArticleDemos are for Getting Feedback
Demos exist primarily to get feedback from your stakeholders when you can’t get feedback from them during the course of a sprint. In this post, I explore a set of questions I frequently get regarding...
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