Visual Models in Agile Analysis!

Using Visual Models IS Agile!

Visual models used in traditional requirements analysis can bring huge benefits to agile teams too!

Models like:

• Process & Workflow Models
• Decision Tables
• State Diagrams
• Sequence Diagrams
• Data Flow Diagram
• Context Diagrams & Models
• And many more!

These models are supposed to help teams have deeper conversations about requirements, users, user scenarios, and how data, users, process and rules intersect.

These conversations still need to happen on agile teams! Without them teams experience: story carry over, and increasing scope as critical user paths are identified late, causing team estimates and predictability to suffer.

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Here is a video from my LinkedIn Learning Course on Requirements Elicitation & Analysis, a quick 3 min lesson of State and Sequence Diagrams.

Links to all of my LinkedIn Learning Courses

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When using visual models on an agile team, it's important to honor the agile principles by:

• Using them as a conversation tools during backlog refinement and "3 Amigos" meetings (QA/BA/Dev chatting about the details of a user story.
• Keeping them transparent and visible to everyone, during meetings, on the walls, and as a tool for dialog.
• Focusing on the user perspective first, then the system. Remember as a BA, PO, or other analysis professional, you are likely the voice of the user, not the system. Other technical roles are the voice of the system, just because they talk and think in system terms, doesn't mean that works for your role. Visual models help bridge all sides of the conversation.
• Use visual models to find missing user stories and acceptance criteria as the team discusses user scenarios. This is REAL ANALYSIS!!!
• Keep your visual models lean and fluid. Whiteboard drawings that evolve and change, vs. formal detailed models that are hidden inside documents.
• Keep your visual models user level, a higher level than the system level. This keeps them easy to create, easy to understand, and keeps the team focused on the user.

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