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Apologies for the formatting above, not sure what happened to my paragraphs...

- Just on the role of your BA (if you have one), I see them as an intermediary, but more as secretarial type role documenting the requirements and passing that along with just a light touch on the analysis. You want your SA / Tech Lead / dev's doing more of the analysis, raising questions, and at any time (periodically) they should be able to interact directly with your product owners / business representatives and get the same feedback from them that the BA is giving. The point being here that BA's, PM's, and Dev Managers that have come from waterfall, and/or development backgrounds, need to put their ego's aside and let the SA / Tech Lead / Dev's drive the make the technical decisions. I've seen many BA's and PM's say to product owners, oh yes, 'that can be done by using X technology', or 'yes that's an easy one' and then try to force that down into the implementation to save face with product or business owners.