Build Stuff 2018

In the Scrum Guide – a 17-page Scrum Bible – you will not find a single word about business analyst. And there are many doubts and questions about how to put a BA in an agile project.

Some will say that BA has become unnecessary friction between business and developers – an additional layer that negatively affects communication and creates the ”Chinese whisper” effect. But IT has different communication requirements than business. A message sufficient for a proper reaction of the business recipient may be incomprehensible or too imprecise for the IT recipient.

So is there a place for a BA in a Scrum Team? Let’s analyze it during my talk!