Factsheet

Business Analyst

In an agile environment the role of the business analyst is to support the

product owner (PO) with decision making. They do this by deep-diving on
problems and providing options on ways to proceed the product evolution.

A key part of the role is to help the PO make informed decisions. This helps
reduce the risk of non-customer focussed knee-jerk decision making.

Involved in

Planning Daily stand-up Refinement Review Retrospective

Role Responsibilities Agile BA Tools

• Challenge ideas and views of stakeholders • Risk analysis • Behaviour driven
development
• Ensure various customer perspectives are • Stakeholder mapping
considered • Business rule elicitation
• Benefit/impact analysis
• Clearly defines the behaviour of the system
• User story mapping
• Ensure the team has sufficient detail to get to done
• Specification by
• Provides benefit calculation to the PO example

• Gathers metrics and data for the sprint review

Typical Day

Attend daily Discuss Collate Lunch Review BDD Preparation Discuss

stand-up acceptance site usage with BA business meeting with for planning vendor
criteria data community rules with developers capability
stakeholder

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