Many big books on software requirements and business analysis recommend dozens and dozens of practices. They’re all useful in appropriate situations, but it’s daunting to try to remember—let alone implement—the whole set consistently. However, every project should perform 20 core requirements activities. These lay a solid foundation for success and help teams efficiently and effectively… Read More »Essential Requirements Practices with Karl Wiegers & Candase Hokanson

Have you ever tried to navigate through a messy backlog, with hundred (or thousands) of seemingly unrelated stories? Or perhaps you've struggled to grapple with prioritisation of backlog items? Or maybe you've had a debate over whether developers should be adding 'technical stories' to the product backlog... if so, this is definitely the session for… Read More »The Art Of Backlog Management: An Interactive Q&A with Lyn Girvan & Mick Brian

The agile manifesto tells us to value “working software over comprehensive documentation” but how can we practically apply this value without sacrificing quality and rigour? How can we ensure that our requirement providers and analysts connect with our coders and testers to deliver fast, reliable value? How do you solve the analysis conundrum and eliminate… Read More »Back to the Feature – A Practical Guide to Iterative Analysis with Stuart Mann

In a viable, deliberately adaptive organisation, how do the relationships between different organisational scales work? Or the same question, but for the networked organisation? And what does that mean for me? Drawn from the Agendashift Academy’s latest module “Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale”, this new talk integrates systems, complexity, and flow thinking (models… Read More »Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you with Mike Burrows