Better, faster business decisions (BA Dev Day, 2013)

In 2013, I spoke at the BA Development Day conference under the theme of “Creating value - the innovative BA". Here's the intro and a visualisation of my talk:

We are seeing a growing demand for companies looking to get early delivery of value and they are trying to find new project approaches that will enable them to do that.  

Steph's talk is titled “Better, faster business decisions” and is based around the fact that the biggest waste in software development is building the wrong thing" with 64% of software features never or rarely used (Poppendiecks).  BAs can take a critical role in helping companies to learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't.

Using innovative techniques such as safe-to-fail experiments, steel threads and minimum viable products, BAs can help teams to get the fast feedback required to deliver business value.

These techniques are being used successfully in a huge range of environments - from two-man startups to the Office of the CTO of the United States.  Drawing on examples from a number of companies she has worked with, Steph will show attendees how they can apply these techniques in their projects.