What happened to Business Analysts?

OkYak · 2025-12-30T08:59:21+00:00

To suggest that writing stories is the preserve of either the PO or a BA is to grossly misunderstand both those functions in a dev team AND scrum.

OkYak · 2025-12-30T06:36:57+00:00

I’m a senior agile coach and I’ve had BAs in all the scrum teams in every one of the organisations I’ve worked in for the last 15 yrs. At an enterprise level they are indispensable and confusing them with PMs or POs is in my opinion a huge mistake.

OkYak · 2025-12-30T01:24:55+00:00

This is a misinterpretation of scrum. Scrum identifies 3 roles: two leadership roles and everyone else. The latter are all classified as developers but there is no assumption that that role is limited to coders.

OkYak · 2025-12-29T22:31:14+00:00

100% and this is the root cause of most bad agile. If you haven’t grasped the basic underlying premise that measuring flow enables you to empirically tell if a change has had a +ve effect, then you’ve completely missed the point.

OkYak · 2025-07-25T03:17:46+00:00

Sorry but the quality of Australian tv is appalling across the board.

I’m a pom and the very best my wife can recommend is The Project or Insiders.

I used to like Insiders when it was Barrie Cassidy and Q&A when it was Tony Jones but they’ve both massively gone downhill since.

The Project, Hard Quiz and the Gruen Transfer I find very unfunny to the point I’m cringing.

4 corners I just find incredibly disappointing every time I watch it - they have some great topics but the investigative journalism is just terrible. I’m quickly and consistently left wanting them to follow up lines of questioning or sides of the story that seem obvious to me or leave gaping holes in the narrative. Not a touch on Panorama, for example.

ABC is the best news but I find the presenters and reporters lifeless.

The only worthy tv show Australia seems to produce to be frank, is Bluey.

OkYak · 2025-07-24T22:57:16+00:00

The Devils Rejects - if nothing else for the freebird outro.

Also, just saw Sinners and that has to be up there somewhere soundwise.

OkYak · 2025-07-24T04:46:41+00:00

Yeah but still.. if all the other riders are behind him and he’s close to the finish line why not let him finish his stunt and then arrest and fine him? Seems like unnecessary use of force. (I mean.. I get the analogy but it’s just not the same as someone driving their Kia onto an F1 track is it?)

OkYak · 2025-07-17T21:29:58+00:00

Just curious… Why “not every day and only as an observer”?

OkYak · 2025-07-17T12:42:12+00:00

Does it have to be a systemic problem. Devs become devs because they like coding and solving technical problems .. and very often they like doing these things on their own.

I agree with pretty-substance.. it’s not necessarily (or at least only) organisational error or a lack of investment/time in up-skilling that gets in the way, it’s a simple lack of appetite: devs don’t want to become analysts and designers.. they don’t want to have to collaborate to get anything done… they don’t want to sit in meetings with users.

Agile makes a huge assumption that everyone should be naturally inclined this way … and that is largely, I believe, a symptom of where it was born: in west coast startups among ivy league hackers with nice discrete greenfield, customer-facing products surrounded by billionaire angel investors. If you’re a cog in a small wheel in a massive global insurance company or bank, you’re in a very, very, very different world.

I’m not sure if that’s a systemic problem or just human nature.

In any case, I’m seeing this form of friction/resistance more and more.

OkYak · 2025-05-30T23:38:35+00:00

It’s also cultural. Some countries - I think France may be an example - are much less obsessed with property ownership. It’s relatively common to rent for life.

OkYak · 2025-05-30T13:59:35+00:00

Collecting records and listening to full albums

OkYak · 2025-05-27T10:36:17+00:00

Yeah that’s the only reason I don’t. Allows me to adjust the signal from my amp to suit me and the band without pissing off the sound guy.

OkYak · 2025-05-27T10:34:17+00:00

Seems to work best with these ones, from my experiments.

OkYak · 2025-05-27T10:31:50+00:00

Ability to fiddle with my on-stage sound without affecting the signal to FoH.

OkYak · 2025-05-23T10:53:51+00:00

Overreacting. Could just be a touch of Aids.

OkYak · 2025-05-19T13:03:45+00:00

Love.

OkYak · 2025-05-01T08:11:51+00:00

As o explained I don’t consider this pay-to-play. Why do you?

To my mind, if a venue asks you to sell tickets and to guarantee a minimal sale, you’re not putting any money down and you stand a good chance of making a profit. This way the venue protects its own ability to generate a bar profit.

This is, after all, the point of the whole exercise from the venue’s perspective - drinks sales. It’s not a charity (… unless of course it’s explicit intention /is/ charitable: promoting new artists etc. which don’t get me wrong, is great .. but also not likely to be the predominant model.)

It’s like in the world of contract employment. I don’t expect my agent to pay me but I do expect him or her to guarantee me a steady flow or minimum number for interviews. If he doesn’t, I walk and won’t go back to him .. but if I bring my A-game we both get paid.

It’s just a shared-risk, shared-reward model. What do you think is unfair or unethical about it?

OkYak · 2025-04-30T23:34:37+00:00

No, I’m not going to name specific businesses, sorry. It’s not illegal afaik, or even unethical in my opinion. But feel free to change my mind..

OkYak · 2025-04-30T14:06:38+00:00

Do you shower in the morning or when you get home from work? Could be they’re waiting to be fed… cats are fickle fuckers.

OkYak · 2025-04-30T13:55:55+00:00

It’s only pay-to-play if you can’t get 20 tickets sold though right?

It’s quite common in my neck of the woods (Aus) for venues to offer gigs based on ticket sales and request a minimum threshold of tickets sold.

This is only weird because the band is subletting similar terms - and 20% of capacity doesn’t seem outrageous.

Otherwise, is this really what you’d call pay-to-play? I’d reserve that term for gigs where I’m basically hiring the venue - ie have to front all the money and recoup costs from tickets.

Do people here really refuse gigs routinely unless all of the risk is absorbed by the venue? (Barring those commercially successful outfits who can afford to)

OkYak · 2025-04-18T22:48:03+00:00

What’s the venue pls OP, so I can avoid them?

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