Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt Greg Swearingen Carole Schwarz BAPDD2013
Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt Greg Swearingen, PSPO1 Senior Business Analyst/Consultant, QuickSolutions Carole Schwarz IT Process Management/Requirements Capability, Nationwide Insurance Reshma Pathare, CBAP, CSM, PMP, CSQA Business Consultant, Nationwide Insurance Faye Thompson, JD, PSMI Senior Agile Consultant, CareWorks Tech Facilitator: Carol C. Fleming, CBAP VP of Technology – IIBA Columbus Chapter Senior Business Analyst, Smart IT BAPDD2013 Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt BAPDD2013 Purpose of session is to present and discuss tools used to assist with business analysis activities: • Greg – Wireframing with PowerPoint and Balsamiq • Carole – IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) • Reshma – Trello • Faye – JIRA and SharePoint BAPDD2013 Wireframing Overview Wireframing BAPDD2013 What is wireframing? 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Requirements Management Traceability Impact Analysis Scope Management Dependencies Build to Run Transition Requirements Development Elicitation Techniques Elaboration Validation Techniques Prioritization Reuse from Run to Plan/Build Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Improved Requirements traceability BAPDD2013 Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Enables a Business and Application/Asset view of requirements BAPDD2013 Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Reuse BAPDD2013 Rational Requirements Composer BAPDD2013 Benefits: Consistency across Business Units and Enterprise Bonus: Analysts can move across business units without major on boarding Rational Requirements Composer BAPDD2013 Benefits: Connects business requirements to agile design requirements Bonus: RTC is tightly integrated, and part of the Rational ALM solution • RRC/RTC is tightly integrated Rational Requirements Composer Summary of Capabilities • Traceability backwards and forwards – out-of-the box links or create your own • Business Process Diagrams – link from Activity/Step to Use Case or Story • Wireframes – any type of image file • Storyboarding – Progressive UI development • Reviews/Approval process • Suspicious Links notification BAPDD2013 Rational Team Concert • • • • Application Release Management Iterations, Plans, Builds, Releases Burnup and Burndown, Velocity Captures the work associated with requirements, development and test • Supports Agile-based practices as well as Waterfall and Iterative • New Integrations allows for Continuous Release & support for DevOps BAPDD2013 BAPDD2013 Trello Overview BAPDD2013 Trello - Board BAPDD2013 Trello - Adding a Card BAPDD2013 • Trello - Adding details to a card BAPDD2013 • Trello - Managing the Board Trello – Pros and Cons BAPDD2013 Pros: • Free! Free !! Free!!! • Open to members and non-members • Private or Public Boards (limited to a group of members or anyone) • Natural user interface with Kanban-like ‘look-and-feel’ • Ease of use, visibility and tracking, collaborative (i.e. Keyboard shortcuts, color-coded lists, assign multiple users to cards) • Available on iPhone / Android / Windows • Developer API • Secure SSL/HTTPS connection • Google Drive / Dropbox/Local pc • Add-on features like Calendar view of cards , convert Email into card Trello – Pros and Cons BAPDD2013 Cons: • Cards/tasks cannot be assigned to multiple Boards / Projects • Limited email integration • Limited number of labels • No tagging capability • Difficult to move/copy etc. multiple cards • No due dates per tasks, only per card • Checklist are not easily visible inside cards Trello – Business A/C BAPDD2013 • $25 per month or $200 per year per organization • Google Apps integration (email / drive / calendar / docs / sheets / slides). • Administrative controls Choose email domains, restrict board visibility, organization admins to manage organization boards • Bulk data export • Observers - board members that can view the board, vote, and comment, but are not able to edit, move, or create cards • Better member control and visibility - more insight into member activity, like de-activating members who leave the org. BAPDD2013 JIRA JIRA - Overview BAPDD2013 • Suite of tools for capturing, managing and tracking work from idea to Production • Track team activity against planned work • Easy to set up and use, so entire team (including Product Owners and Users) have continual insight into status • Fits into most budgets • Plug-in system, so you pay for the functionality that you use JIRA – Work Tracking BAPDD2013 •Allows all Team Members and Users to add bugs/stories/ enhancement requests on the fly •Track all related information, including points estimates, detailed requirements, supporting documentation via attachment, feature identification JIRA Agile – Backlog Management BAPDD2013 • fka GreenHopper • Drag-and-drop stories/tasks/ bugs in priority order of customer value JIRA Agile – Kanban BAPDD2013 • Slide cards to indicate status • Creates BVC that is instantly updatable JIRA Agile - Kanban BAPDD2013 • Set WIP constraints to focus team efforts • Another visual indicator of impacts to schedule JIRA Agile - Burndown BAPDD2013 • Calculates Burndown and Velocity • Allows for visual display of scope changes that impacted development pace JIRA Agile – Additional Metrics BAPDD2013 JIRA – Other Considerations • Workflows • Ease of use, visibility and tracking, collaborative • Assign Issue Keys for traceability • Mobile site makes available anywhere • Developer API, with numerous existing plug-ins • Affordability www.atlassian.com BAPDD2013 BAPDD2013 SharePoint SharePoint - Overview BAPDD2013 • Team collaboration tools easily built into a single site, including intranet portals, file management, social networks, websites, sitewide search, and business intelligence • Closely integrated with Office – Interface is familiar – Easily use in conjunction with other Office applications SharePoint – Group/Project Sites BAPDD2013 • Create single project site • Knowledge Sharing • Calendar/schedule • Announcements SharePoint – Document Repository BAPDD2013 Permissions-based repository which allows for versioning and document preservation SharePoint – Other Considerations BAPDD2013 • Ease of use for new users • Highly customizable • Accessible remotely with appropriate setup BAPDD2013 Resources & Tools Resources & Tools BAPDD2013 • Wireframes Magazine -- wireframes.linowski.ca • Smashing Magazine -- www.smashingmagazine.com • Help Authoring Tools and Techniques forum -http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/HATT/info • Christian Naths’ free Redacted font -https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font -Redacted Font sdf df ddfsdfs ddfds • PowerStory -- http://power-story.com • Balsamiq -- http://www.balsamiq.com • Trello – www.trello.com (there is also a blog and a strong user community that provides answers to FAQs etc and a forum to post your questions and get responses Resources & Tools BAPDD2013 • Andreas Wulf’s free icons for PowerPoint http://designmodo.com/windows-8-wireframe/ • Cucumber - http://www.cukes.info • Cucumber on GitHub https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber • Axiom open source - build custom projects • MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) plug in for Excel can help with requirements traceability; can view all team members' activities in one place Resources & Tools • Red Mine - requirements plug-ins for storyboards; issue tracker • Basecamp/Highrise/Campfire – http://37signals.com/ • Pivotal Tracker - agile PM tool; iteration manager - track stories thru development process • Mind Mapping - iThoughts HD for Apple; MindJet; Xmind; BAPDD2013 Resources & Tools • • • • http://www.modernanalyst.com/ Mingle - www.thoughtworks.com Rally Software - http://www.rallydev.com/ Prezzi - http://prezi.com/ BAPDD2013 BAPDD2013 Questions/ Comments Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt Panelists Reshma Pathare, CBAP, CSM, PMP, CSQA Business Consultant [email protected] Carole Schwarz IT Process Management - Requirements Capability [email protected] Greg Swearingen, PSPO1 Senior Business Analyst / Consultant [email protected] Faye Thompson, JD, PSMI Senior Agile Consultant [email protected] BAPDD2013
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