As developers, analysts, adminstrators, etc, I think most of us tend towards perfectionism. We want to do the job right and we want to do the job right the first time around.
Agility means being able to move forward with less than perfect information. Sometimes it means moving forward with information that is known to incomplete or even potentially inaccurate.
So what does that mean for analysis? Analysis, by definition, is the separation of individual components from the whole. The goal being, at least in my universe of activities, to be the understanding of a business proccess’s basic feature set and the relationships between those features.