Please check the Noble Inc. page on LinkedIn for regular updates.

Current and Upcoming:

Mar 20, 2024: Agile Analysis and Planning: Fundamental Principles and Best Practices for POs and Team Analysts, hosted by O’Reilly Learning. To learn more and register, click here.

TBD: Story Mapping for Agile Release Planning, hosted by O'Reilly Learning: This new online course offers a deep dive on Story Mapping for agile release planning, quarterly planning and/or PI Planning. The course will be offered in the first part of 2024. Watch this space for updates.

Past news items and posts:

Dec 6, 2023 18:00 PT, PMI Silicon Valley hosts "Why Your Agile Organization Needs a High-Performing Business Analysis Competency” with Noble founder, Howard Podeswa

Dec. 6, 2023 13:00-17:00 ET: Webinar - Agile Analysis and Planning, presented by Howard Podeswa, hosted by O'Reilly Learning

Nov 28, 2023 12:00 ET: IIBA Webinar “Why Nimble Organizations Need Agile Requirements Engineering,” with Howard Podeswa

Nov 14, 2023 - 12:00 ET: IIBA Book Talk (Online): Interview With the Author - Howard Podeswa.  

More on Story Mapping (Oct 2023) - featuring an example of a Story Map

Story Maps - an overview, excerpted from The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning (Oct 2023)

Brazilian BA Guest Special (Video) - Howard Podeswa with Yulia Kosarenko, hosted by Fabricio Laguna. (Oct 30, 2023)

Story Mapping Deep Dive: How to use Story Maps for Agile Quarterly/Release Planning. Festival of Business Analysis, IIBA Australia (Oct 19, 2023)

Business Analysis Magazine (BAM) (IIBA) - Why Agile Organizations Need Requirements Engineering: Noble Inc. director Howard Podeswa makes the case for the importance of the requirements engineering/business analysis competencies for successful agile organizations (Jul 2023)

Preparing Effective Features to Support Hyperproductive Agile Teams and Continuous, Reliable Value Delivery Presentation by H. Podeswa at the PMBA Global Virtual Conference (May 26, 2021 15:40 EST)

BA Product Management Z-Days hosts Webinar with Howard Podeswa. (May 25, 2021)

BA Community on Facebook hosts Webinar with Howard Podeswa. (Apr. 28, 2021)

Release date for The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning – from Strategic Plan to Continuous Value Delivery (Pearson/Addison-Wesley) by Noble founder Howard Podeswa (Apr 23, 2021)

Sample from the book, The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning:  (Click here: Flow-based (Kanban) or Timeboxed (Scrum, SAFe) Agile?) (Apr, 2021)

Preparing the Organization for Agile. Key Imperatives for a Successful Transition to an Agile Enterprise Howard Podeswa and Alain Arseneault, former IIBA acting President and CEO about themes from Podeswa’s new book, The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning. Hosted by BA & Beyond, this webinar can be viewed by clicking here. (Mar 11, 2021)

IT Business Analysis (BA) and Requirements Engineering (RE) In an Agile World: Turning Agile Requirements into Accepted Value Workshop delivered by H. Podeswa at BA World Toronto, 2020 virtual conference. (Dec 2020)

European BA Day announcement Frankfurt. (Oct 2018)

The Business Case for Agile Business Analysis RE Magazine. (Feb 1, 2017)

Hey IIBA, What's Up With That? (Oct 8, 2012)

BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram  (Feb 13, 2012)

10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Starting Out AS A BA  (Feb 15, 2011)

BA ABCs: “B” is for BPMN  (Sep 12, 2010)

BA ABCs: “A” is for Activity Diagram  (May 17, 2010)

The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning by Howard Podeswa (Addison-Wesley Professional, March 25, 2021).

“Howard Podeswa has long been respected as an authority and author in the field of business analysis. With "The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning," Howard integrates his BA expertise with his deep and broad understanding of agile software development methods. [The book] constitutes a comprehensive and accessible resource for anyone involved with agile projects …. that can help any agile team be more successful.

.- Karl Wiegers, Author of “Software Requirements Essentials”