CHAPTER 4: WHAT ARE THE RISKS OF NOT HAVING AN AGILE BUSINESS ANALYST?

The limitations of requirements review sessions

As described in the previous section, Agile approaches generally task the business users with gathering, documenting, and prioritizing the business requirements of the system; and the Agile development team with clarifying the intended system behavior, identifying possible alternative options in the solution, and estimating the amount of work required to deliver agreed features.

The business requirements of the system are usually prepared and prioritized by the business users before the requirements review sessions with the Agile development team. It is expected that the business users have consulted with the necessary stakeholders, ...

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