Business analysis

(relaxing music) - Many are predicting that the changes coming in the next few years will outpace what we've seen in the last 50 years. Newer technologies of today can speak and listen accurately, determine and express emotions, find patterns in millions of records and build their own logic. And that's just the start. When we combine these with new advances in how technology can analyze disparate and unstructured data in unthinkable speed, we get innovations that can be applied to business process and customer interactions that are mind-blowing. Like an organization without customers, I can't imagine an Agile project without analysis. Being an Agile BA is about facilitating dialogue about customer value with the team, making the product owner's decisions more efficient, and analyzing for gaps and impacts. Agile, as an approach for projects, is all about insuring what is built is valuable. We can build a solution really well and really fast, but if it doesn't provide value to the users, it doesn't matter. And that's where BAs come in. Your work is crucial to Agile's value driven mission. - The value business process modeling represents to the organization is to visually demonstrate the flow of activities between various stakeholders and the interaction that enables outcomes to be achieved. Modeling is an awesome way to leverage the use of visuals. With these diagrams, you can capture, analyze, and determine future ways that organizations perform the work required. Bringing all of these business process modeling practices into your tool kit, will make you an indispensable asset whenever an organization is looking to make changes.