Welcome to The Agile BA!

Hi, I'm Josh. I started the Agile BA so that other Business Analysts could leverage the strategies and tools I have acquired throughout the duration of my experience as a Senior Business Analyst in agile environments. I am excited to share the knowledge that I wish someone would have shared with me early on in my career. I remember starting out as a BA and having issues gathering the requirements I needed from different stakeholders due to time constraints, struggling with writing clean user stories that my team felt confident in and just generally feeling stressed about my job in general, much less my career! So I started to seek out training and mentors that could help me enhance my skills and I found that many of the offerings (even now) lacked practical skills that I needed day to day such as communication skills with stakeholders and executive leadership, expectations management and even writing clean user stories. After, I learned these skills and more, everything became so much easier and I started to easily command more pay, recognition and promotions from leadership. Rather than managing my day to day, they would just allow me to drive business processes and only seek me out for advisement on proceeding with certain initiatives or brief status updates on the project.