The BA role at TechniCap Partners

Our role and agile approach by Ilze Koning

The role of an analyst at TechniCap Partners beautifully melds three distinct facets:

Three Core Attributes

Product Owner

Partnering with our Senior Partner and Lead Business Consultant, we champion the voice of the customer. We ensure goals align with client expectations and business outcomes.

Classic Business Analysis

At the heart of what we do is our ability to utilise our skills and strengths to connect and partner stakeholders with engineering teams.

Agile Delivery Lead

We guide the cadence and pace of projects, ensuring seamless collaboration, efficient delivery, and removing blockers. Subsequently we efficiently deliver agreed milestones, removing blockers and communicating timeously if milestones are at risk.

The unique blend of these attributes demands versatility. A BA in our team is akin to a masterful juggler, seamlessly switching between these roles as situations dictate. The ability to adapt, pivot, and wear many hats isn't just an added advantage — it's a fundamental trait, ensuring our BAs not only drive results but also foster innovation and collaboration at every turn.

Our Agile Approach

The agile Business Analyst

Definition

At TechniCap Partners our Business Analysts actively participate in the story of the solutions we create. We pivot, adapt and co-create at every stage.?

Here’s how

Dynamic Requirements Gathering

We don’t just ‘gather’ requirements. We co-discover them alongside stakeholders, ready to adapt as the product's narrative unfolds.

Common Sense approach

When we find ourselves in a poorly understood environment we try to solve problems using rules of thumb that cause the best change using available resources, (our experience, teamwork, tools and partnerships).?

Sprint Partners

TechniCap BAs are active sprint participants. We’re present throughout the sprint, clarifying, adjusting, and offering insights.

User Story Craftsmanship

We aim to shape user stories as starting points for solutions. We own the narrative, aligning user needs by balancing business goals with technical delivery, ensuring they not only meet requirements but also deliver genuine value.

Continuous Collaboration

Agile is about fluidity, and BAs embrace this by fostering continuous dialogue. They're in constant sync with the PO, developers, designers, and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and shared understanding.

Backlog refinement Allies

Our Senior Business Analysts, perform the role of Product Owners. During backlog refinement we ensure items that are clear, valuable and actionable.?

Feedback Loop Champions

Agile thrives on feedback, and BAs are at the forefront, facilitating feedback loops, synthesising insights, and ensuring they're factored into the evolving product.

Visualising Complexity

Through tools like wireframes, domain models, and data maps, BAs distil complex requirements into visual, tangible artefacts that the team can rally around.

Empathy-driven Analysis

At the heart of Agile is the user. BAs champion this by continuously rooting their analyses in empathy, ensuring that the user's voice is heard and felt throughout the product journey.

Agile Learning Advocates

The Agile BA is always on a learning curve, embracing change, and seeking out new methodologies and tools to enrich their approach and the team's outcomes.