Tag Archives: patterns

Mountains to climb

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Akshay Dhavle

Business Analysts work closely with the customer. Each new area is a challenge. There are discussions and problems and solutions. Both the analyst and the customer get comfortable with the idea of finding better, simpler solutions. This is especially true … Continue reading →

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Embracing Bunker Busters

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Akshay Dhavle

For various reasons, there are situations when there is no running away from a Bunker Buster. An agile team should therefore be watchful. Once the analyst finds a potential bunker buster, he/she will have only one parameter to tweak… The … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Bunker Busters

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Akshay Dhavle

“Prevention is better than cure” and one good way of handling Bunker Busters is to avoid them. Agile teams seem to be wary of handling anything by prevention, as it requires thinking ahead and taking care of things to come … Continue reading →

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Grenades, Shells & Bunker Busters

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Akshay Dhavle

As agile business analysts, we try to keep our stories small, independent, testable and valueable. Once in a while, though, we come face to face with a Bunker Buster and everything starts looking scary. Impact Every story is likely to … Continue reading →

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Deceptively small stories??

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Akshay Dhavle

For sometime now I have got the feedback from developers, that the stories I write look small but have loads of work to be actually done and they get under estimated during the Iteration Planning Meeting. Now when I asked … Continue reading →

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Communication Patterns

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Akshay Dhavle

Incidentally my earlier post was about how Distributed Agile works. My unexpectedly long web silence was infact due to the current DA project that I am working on. One interesting thing that we get to observe is how the communication … Continue reading →

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