If your organisation is considering digital transformation, you might reasonably ask whether you need a business analyst (BA) to help you achieve it.

If your organisation is considering digital transformation, you might reasonably ask whether you need a business analyst (BA) to help you achieve it.

If your organisation is considering digital transformation, you might reasonably ask whether you need a business analyst (BA) to help you achieve it.

If your organisation is considering digital transformation, you might reasonably ask whether you need a business analyst (BA) to help you achieve it.

The road to digital transformation is not always a smooth one, and organisations that choose to go down this route do not always succeed in their digital transformations.

Digital transformation involves integrating technology into all areas of your business, but underpinning it must be a mindset for change and adaptability.

As an experienced business analyst, I’ll explain what digital transformation means, and why it can apply to a broad range of enterprises, from SMEs to large organisations.

When adopting the agile approach to product management, you need to have the right supporting structures in place, and scrum methodology provides the crucial framework to make agile a practical reality.

The scrum team sits at the heart of the agile approach, delivering incremental goals and objectives. The idea behind agile is that you can achieve much more by working incrementally, breaking down large, complex projects into smaller, manageable component parts.

Agile can bring about profound transformations in organisations and enterprises, but is there a danger that the hype surrounding agile over-promises what it can deliver?

Culture change is a key aspect of adopting the agile approach. If an enterprise or organisation is going to adopt agile effectively, it must have the right collective mindset. It needs to embed this mindset in its culture.

Making a successful change to the agile mindset for project management depends on setting the stage properly.

Committing to change means being prepared to do things differently, and the agile mindset can feel very different from your normal ways of working.

As an agile business analyst I recognise and appreciate that a shift in culture can be a big ask. In this blog, I look at the stumbling blocks on the journey to agile, and plan for changing to agile can look like.

As a business analyst  it is my task to ensure my clients get the support they need to meet their objectives.