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10 WAYS TO FAILAS A

BUSINESS ANALYST

I failed

Lubaina Rangwala@lubaina

ABOUT ME• Worked in different kinds of places

– Startup with 10 people; hopes of being acquired– Startup with 60 people; got acquired– Freelance Consultant – 1 person; gave up– ThoughtWorks! – Startup with 2000 people?

• On different types of projects– The “next flash-based gamified Facebook” – A website for a company manufacturing robotic vacuum

cleaners – An enterprise level software, pitched as an IoT poster-

child for an Networking technology Giant

AS A business analyst, I WANT TO write a story

Uska AGILE mere AGILE se behtar kaise?

User stories are art

Failing to recognize opportunity

One sec, I’ll be there in five minutes

STEP 1: PLANNINGSTEP 2: DEVELOPMENT

Who will buy my product and why I should care

Itne paise mein itna heech milenga!

Misunderstanding Analytics

Quick Summary

Fail #01 - Being a BA is all about writing storiesFail #02 - Forcing a process to work for youFail #03 - Stories are elaborate works of artFail #04 - Failure to see opportunities in domain trends Fail #05 - Elastic Time Fail #06 - Loyalty vs Trust Fail #07 - Sticking to Fixed releasesFail #08 - Not asking how the project will make its moneyFail #09 - Lack of a Baseline scopeFail #10 - Misinterpreting Analytics

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