Slides from a presentation given by Ian Powney and Adrian Robinson to a meeting of IIBA UK's North branch on 14 March 2018.

2. 20 aggregators
600+ employees
£50m turnover
260 vehicle data customers
25M vehicle
lookups a month
40 years experience
1,000,000 quotes per day
£3m R&D p.a.
53 insurer
partnerships
Based in Stockport
across 4 Offices
50% of brands are serviced from CDL
Retail insurance
sector
7.5m policies held
on CDL’s systems

3. CDL timeline

4. Classic, Strata and Echelon

5. Our Products - VIS

7. Analysis Team
3 Team Leaders
2 Lead Analysts
27 Analysts in total
Most working in agile squads
Business Analysis done outside squads
Strata/Echelon
Digital
2 Strata/Echelon
Digital

8. A journey towards an
agile analyst practice
B Y I A N P O W N E Y & A D R I A N R O B I N S O N

9. Welcome
the ghost of analyst past
Past, present and future, ‘A
Christmas Carol’ like talk
through our journey
towards an Agile analyst
practice.

10. PROCESS
PEOPLE SKILLS

12. Process past

13. PROJECT VARIABLES
DSDM ATERN ROLES LIFECYCLE

14. FORMAL
PROCESS
HUGE
DOCUMENTATION
REVIEW &
SIGN OFF

15. Skills past

16. REQUIREMENTS
ENGINEER
LINK BETWEEN
BUSINESS AND I.T.
UML

17. WRITER
TENACIOUS
COMMUNICATOR

18. Process present

19. SHORTER DELIVERY
CONTINUOUS
DELIVERY
SCRUM TRAINING

20. Spotify model

21. USER STORIES
MVP
BDD

22. Skills present

23. IIBA & BCS
CONFERENCE
BCS INTERNATIONAL
DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
BA-BOK

24. TOOL KIT
CA-BOK
BPMN/DMN
UX/CX

25. People past

26. GOLD PLATING
INDIVIDUALISTS BOTTLE NECK

27. LACK OF CREATIVITY
UI ONLY
HOLISTIC/BIG PICTURE
KNOWLEDGE

28. People present –
adapting core skills

29. CREATIVITY
COLLABORATION T-SHAPED

30. OBJECTIVES
SQUAD RECRUITMENT
MEETUPS

31. Future

32. CLIENTS
AUTONOMY M-SHAPED
PEOPLE

33. UX ANALYST
AI & ML
DATA SCIENCE

34. LEAN THINKING
SELF REFLECTION
BCS INTERNATIONAL
DIPLOMA IN SOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT

35. KNOWLEDGE
ACQUISITION
CLEAR VISION
LESS IS MORE

37. In summary

38. If you didn’t get to ask your
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