MIS312 – Agile Business Analysis Assignment

Task Summary

In preparation for Assessment 3 – a group assessment – you are asked to take the time to do a personal retrospective on how working with your team has gone so far. The aim is for you to take stock of the current situation and think of creative ways to bring t

A key tool to help you is a story board. The aim of using a story board is to help you try and look at two of your weekly meetings as an outside observer, like you are watching a movie of your meeting, and to try and think about the situation objectively.

Context

Working successfully as a team is core to Agile – no one hero can carry the team through complex projects. The whole team needs to pull together to achieve best outcomes

Task Instructions

It is not expected that you are a talented artist – stick figures are more than adequate to help you tell your story. You are free to use a story board template of your choosing and write whatever notes around the frame of what you have drawn to make your story clear. You will be expected to label team members by name. The story board is meant to help you not hinder you, so be creative and use it to your best advantage. Watch this video for some tips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux_Em1lVsjI

You will need to look at a one good example – where a weekly meeting went well; and one challenge example where the meeting could have gone better. After you have completed each story board – you will then be asked to complete a retrospective board:

1. Positive Story Board –

a. Title of your Story Board – What genre you would make this movie – e.g. adventure, comedy, action, fantasy, science fiction or a coming of age story.

b. The issue in the plot of your meeting.

c. Characters in the team that helped, and how.

d. The ending and the positive outcome of the team meeting.

2. The Challenge Story Board –

a. Title of your Story Board – What genre would you make this movie – e.g. horror, thriller, melodrama, crime fiction, detective fiction, conspiracy, or suspense

b. The challenge or problem in the plot of your meeting

c. Characters in the team that caused challenges and problems, how they di this and why you think they did this.

d. The ending.

e. How – now that you have taken a step back to gain objectivity – you could have shaped this meeting to a more productive outcome.

Report Structure

The submission is brief and therefore will not require and executive summary or abstract.

Title page:

should include subject ID, subject name, assignment title, student’s name, student number and lecturer’s name

Introduction (150-200 words):

Also serve as your statement of purpose for the report. This means that you will tell the reader what you are going to cover in your report. You will need to inform the reader of:

1. The method you will use

2. The key concepts you will be addressing,

3. What the reader can expect to find in the body of your assessment response.

Body of the report (1100-1200 words):

1. Positive Story Board –

a. Include a snapshot of your positive story board.

b. Title of your Story Board – What genre you would make this movie – e.g. adventure, comedy, action, fantasy, science fiction or a coming of age story.

c. The issue in the plot of your meeting.

d. Characters in the team that helped, and how.

e. The ending and the positive outcome of the team meeting.

2. The Challenge Story Board –

a. Include a snapshot of your challenge story board.

b. Title of your Story Board – What genre would you make this movie – e.g. horror, thriller, melodrama, crime fiction, detective fiction, conspiracy, or suspense

c. The challenge or problem in the plot of your meeting

d. Characters in the team that caused challenges and problems, how they di this and why you think they did this.

e. The ending.

f. How – now that you have taken a step back to gain objectivity – you could have shaped this meeting to a more productive outcome.

Layout:

• The written component of this assessment should use font Arial or Calibri 11 point, should be line spaced at 1.5 for ease of reading and page numbers on the bottom of each page.

• With the required diagrams due attention should be given to pagination to avoid loss of meaning and continuity by unnecessarily splitting information over two pages. Diagrams must carry the appropriate captioning.