This is all opinion, generated over been among a handful of people who think they know the business. You are welcome to contribute to the conversation in the comments below.
The mission of the Agile extension to the BABOK
- Demonstrate what elements and/or practices in the IIBA are applicable in agile development
- To get BA’s doing Agile right
- To (understand how to) do what is required for your team
- To support Business Analysts in their pursuit of excellence in their field
- To help analysts understand whether IIBA certification and membership is valuable to me and my organisation
- To ensure consistent approaches are taken (within the frameworks adopted, and within the variations discovered and adopted by teams)
- To achieve the delivery of business value with a reduction in project delivery risk
- To support BA’s in their pursuit of knowledge
- To clarify how a BA contributes to delivering value in an agile context
- Understand story initiation
- Learn about facilitating stand-ups and planning sessions
- Continual learning is at the heart of agile
- Facilitate the delivery of business value
- Facilitate “team ownership” of the delivery of business value
- Enable other team members to perform their duties (through the provision of clear requirements and goals.)
- Facilitate mutual understanding of the problem or opportunity to hand
- Facilitation skills
- Inception activities
- Release planning
- Sprint/Iteration planning
- Formulating acceptance criteria
- Coaching and mentoring
- Problem analysis
- Silos still exist and your iterations are mini-waterfalls
- You become a bottleneck
- You aren't a core part of the team
- You are making crucial decisions on behalf of your stakeholders/customers
- The team has different expectations
I'll publish a few of my independent thoughts in a separate post in a few days.