Structured Methods

So here’s the hard part. Leadership development is risky, because it isn’t about creating an ideal and then trying to get people to act according to that ideal. It’s about working with people, their beliefs and characters, and potentially letting loose a tower of Babel of potentially conflicting beliefs and values.

Managing requirements and project planning via a shared concept of user stories is the crux of agile development, at least from my current BA viewpoint. Over the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to “write” user stories and even see a few of them implemented and tested. Overall, it’s been a positive experience.