Business Analysis in Agile Projects

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A recent survey focuses on the role of business analysts and requirements management in Agile IT projects.

The role of business analyst is key to enabling successful Agile projects, according to the results of The State of Business Analysis in Agile IT Projects survey. However, the transition to Agile is not without pitfalls. Business Analysts must learn to visually define requirements; they must improve stakeholder validation and review of user stories; and they must shift requirements practices to incrementally define requirements concurrently with development to ensure success.

More than 300 companies participated in the survey, published by Requirements.net in partnership with the Phoenix Chapter of the IIBA and Capgemini.

The 2010 survey found that Agile is prevalent and growing within the enterprise. All of the participants surveyed were using an Agile development methodology within their organization. A majority of participants (57%) were using agile for 10-25% of their projects, with 25% using agile for 25-50% of projects, and 18% almost exclusively using agile for 75-100% of projects. Time-to-market and resource utilization were the most oft-cited reasons for moving to agile, while participants cited quicker realization of vision and promoting transparency as the most common benefits as a result of the move to agile.

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