News UKBusiness Analyst
Aug. 2023London, England, United Kingdom• Primary BA for cross-discipline team – recently began training apprentice to work alongside me.
• Working in Agile/Scrum – responsible for majority of ceremonies (Daily Standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Retrospective)
• Working in person, remotely and with offshore teams.
• Successfully rolled out massive business change/transformation project – transitioning The Times’ CMS from an outdated piece of software to a WordPress based system.
• Worked on both development/improvement of the CMS and facilitated a successful rollout with stakeholders and users.
• Formed strong relationships with stakeholders, scheduled regular meetings with key members of management in the newsroom.
• Gathering requirements from a variety of stakeholders across business units – editorial staff, product managers, software developers etc.
• Performing UAT on development work when necessary
• Writing detailed User Stories, Bugs, Epics, Spikes and Tasks – created and automated new templates which are used across the department.
• Usage of Atlassian suite, including Jira, Confluence and Trello.
• Usage of Google Workspace
• Improving processes across the team.
• Aiding with the training of new users of the CMS including bookings and logging feedback from sessions.
• Responsible for some internal comms, such as a weekly newsletter to all staff, displaying data on the roll out and what is coming next.
• Management of a data report with relevant statistics on the rollout, which is regularly used by SLT.