Agile Product Development is the blog of David Morris, CSM CBAP NLP DipM.

David Morris, Enterprise Business Analyst for Redvespa Consultants

David helps business teams select the right products to build; delivery teams build products right; and organisations get more value from their new product development and governance processes.

With over 27 years experience working in consultant, leader,coach, trainer, analyst, and delivery roles; he is passionate about realising business benefit by ensuring business stakeholders and delivery teams work collaboratively, with good experience of introducing and coaching agile practices.

David is Enterprise Business Analyst at Redvespa Consultants (@RedvespaNZ), where he works with clients on their strategic business change programmes, developing their practice maturity and team capabilities, and training and mentoring individual business analysis practitioners.

David is actively involved in bringing agile working practices together with the disciplines of product management and business analysis. He has contributed to the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) Body of Knowledge (PDMA-BOK) and led a collaborative effort between the business analysis and agile practitioner communities to develop the Agile Extension to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, which was released for peer feedback in early November 2011 — this ‘extension’ will become part of the BABOK itself.

David also acts as Director at Large for the IIBA New Zealand chapter, organising and supporting events in Auckland; is an active member of PDMA and BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT; and is a Certified ScrumMaster™ (CSM®), Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Professional for Web Development (MCP), and holds a Graduate Diploma in Management (DipM) from Henley Business School, University of Reading.