Agile Principles for BAs

Summary

Agile values working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over rigid upfront planning — a real shift from the traditional BRD-heavy approach, requiring BAs to work in smaller, iterative increments.

• 1Read the original 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto (short, worth reading fully).
• 2Compare how requirements gathering differs in a traditional versus Agile approach.
• 3Learn that Agile doesn't eliminate the need for documentation, just changes its cadence and detail.