The team is struggling with how to best design and explore options for moving forward. They settle on a time-boxed research approach which is often referred to as a:
At the Initiative Horizon, we see the concept of adaptive planning expressed when a solution owner:
In the past, a team has been unable to deliver solutions in a timely manner and they feel this is due to the customer being unable to decide what they want. The team has decided to ask the customer to “sign-off” on their requirements. This violates the following value statement:
The team is considering which of several solution paths they should invest in. They are working only from conjecture and opinion, not data and facts. A practitioner with an agile mindset would remind them to:
Strategic decision makers are considering large amounts of complex information covering many different areas. To reduce the information to a manageable level of complexity, they decide to use the following:
Good analysis practices at the Strategy Horizon facilitate the transfer of relevant knowledge between teams to:
Making decisions based on a realistic understanding of current organizational strengths, capabilities, and challenges, is represented in the agile analysis principle of:
The team establishes ground rules for considering business analysis performance improvements. They agree that speed and accuracy of executing analysis activities becomes very important at the following horizon:
The delivery team is:
prioritizing the backlog
focusing on stories that deliver maximum value first
maximizing the work not done.
These demonstrate application of the following agile business analysis principle:
During a delivery team meeting, some members of the team are confused about the “time” dimension depicted on a story map. After some discussion they conclude it describes:
