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Now in its second edition, The Power of the Agile Business Analyst has expanded to include new Agile methods that have emerged or gained prominence since the first edition.
Drawing on her extensive experience, Jamie Lynn Cooke proposes a new role for Agile projects: the Agile business analyst. She details 30 achievable ways that this role will increase relevance, quality and overall business value, and provide business users with crucial support. The Agile business analyst can also benefit the development team, being a ready source of business knowledge and ensuring that project outcomes align with requirements.
Jamie Lynn Cooke has 27 years’ experience as a senior business analyst and solutions consultant, working with more than 130 public and private sector organizations throughout Australia, Canada, and the US.
Her background includes business case development; strategic and operational reviews; business process modelling, mapping, and optimisation; product and project management on small to multimillion-dollar initiatives; quality management; risk analysis and mitigation; developing/conducting training courses; workshop delivery; and refining e-business strategies.
Jamie is the author of Agile Productivity Unleashed, a book written specifically to explain Agile in non-technical business terms to managers and executives outside of the IT industry; Agile: An Executive Guide: Real results from IT budgets, which gives IT executives the tools and strategies needed for bottom-line business decisions on using Agile methodologies; Everything you want to know about Agile: How to get Agile results in a less-than-Agile organization, which gives strategies for aligning Agile work within an organization’s reporting, budgeting, staffing, and governance constraints; and PRINCE2 Agile™ An Implementation Pocket Guide: Step-by-step advice for every project type, a hands-on guide for successfully delivering projects within the PRINCE2 Agile framework.