TOOLS
The software-agnostic end product a BA creates to illustrate the flow, decision points and swim lanes for current or to-be processes.
What is a BPMN diagram?
This friend of the BA facilitates retro and helps create an improvement backlog.
What is a Scrum Master or SM (or Team Coach)?
This field on a user story reflects the time period for which the work is planned and/or executed.
What is Sprint Value?
The category of ticket that delivers code but has no UI component.
What is a Technical story
The place that houses links from Heh's Jira talk.
What is the BA channel or bid_appeals_business-analysts?
It's a term often used when referring to the amount of story points a team can reasonably complete in a sprint
What is velocity?
Your likely closest collaborator when creating stories for the backlog.
What is a Tech Lead, or TL?
Where one can find upcoming work for a team.
What is the backlog?
If when testing functionality for a feature your team is working on, you come across something broken, it's the type of ticket you should create.
What is a Bug?
The BA who, in front of witnesses no less, said he loves filing bugs
Who is John Fuller?
The multifaceted explanation of upcoming work using several common lenses such as logical and physical views.
What is a 4+1?
Your peers on the project who can be a resource if you have questions or want to verify best practices for BA's.
What is the BA competency?
Two job roles on a development team that don't participate in pointing stories.
What are Scrum Master (SM) (or Team Coach) and Business Analyst (BA)?
This Atlassian software is a Wiki for documentation and
integrates with Jira
What is Confluence?
In addition to VA Teams, it's the only other option for include screenshots of VA systems.
What is encrypted VA email?
This tool helps illustrate how a user will step through a value stream using design thinking principles
What is a journey map?
This friend on your team may seek you out to review their work or answer questions.
What is a Developer, or Dev?
This introductory piece of information on a user story identifies how the work will impact users or stakeholders.
What is a Value statement?
It's an optional way to break out individual actions within a single story so that each can be tracked within the story's lifecycle.
What is a subtask?
This part of a user story documents how the work was tested.
What are testing steps?
This tool helps one design a solution from a specific type of user's point of view and is especially helpful when there is limited access to intended users.
What are personas?
Initially speaking, the group who is handling requirements approvals.
What is ABI?
The overarching theme for the sprint agreed upon by the team.
What is a sprint goal?
The menu option that allows one to change a ticket designated as a bug to a story or design task.
What is Move?
Predefined criteria that means a story is complete.
What is ‘definition of done’?