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SBDi Tips Q&A: How Often To Update Non-Sponsor Business People
Hi Pat: One of my users, who are not the project sponsor, wants a weekly update on the project’s progress. The time it takes to update the user takes time away from making any progress. Some wee… more →
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SBDi Tips Q&A: How Often To Update Non-Sponsor Business People
Pat Ferdinandi wrote 2 days ago: Hi Pat: One of my users, who are not the project sponsor, wants a weekly update on the project … more →
Span of Control
lhilkemann wrote 2 days ago: The Span of Control is the number of people for whom a supervisor is responsible. This metric is mos … more →
Imagine
grsuyeda wrote 3 days ago: In the old days we mostly automated manual procedures, so requirements and specifications were strai … more →
User Stories
lhilkemann wrote 3 days ago: The User Stories technique is one of 34 techniques described in the Business Analysis Body of Knowle … more →
Consulting Pulse: Time Management - Covey's 4 quadrants
dkohrell wrote 4 days ago: Great conversation Friday with a long term colleague regarding process improvements, Lean Six Sigma, … more →
Fundamentalist
Pat Ferdinandi wrote 6 days ago: Defined in Seth Godin’s book, Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us, he defines “A fundamentalist is a pers … more →
The sub divisions of Business Analysis
fortunetech wrote 1 week ago: Business analysis as a discipline has a heavy overlap with requirements analysis sometimes also call … more →
Training in Business Analysis
fortunetech wrote 1 week ago: Business analysis is the discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to busin … more →
Questions are key to success.
Pat Ferdinandi wrote 1 week ago: Here is a video by my mentor, Jeffrey Gitomer about Asking Powerful Questions. Though Mr. Gitomer … more →
Architecture versus Design
Pat Ferdinandi wrote 2 weeks ago: A blog post by Tom Graves that is worth reading on the difference between Architecture and Design … more →
The Business Analyst: Facilitator or Designer?
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Ben Warsop wrote 2 weeks ago: Craig challenged me on the role of the BA recently. I said that Web 2.0 is something you can only u … more →
An English Major Surviving in a Technical World
Susan Scher wrote 2 weeks ago: Susan I don’t know how many times I hear from clients, “Please bear with me, I’m not that technical. … more →
IA tools: Storyboards
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magia3e wrote 2 weeks ago: Storyboards are a great way to describe a user’s journey, their thoughts, feelings, attitudes, … more →
Thoughts about scheduling
grsuyeda wrote 2 weeks ago: Towards the end of “I Sing the Body Electronic” about a multi-media (remember those?) project at Mic … more →
SBDi Tips Q&A: Where in the Organization does a BA sit
Pat Ferdinandi wrote 2 weeks ago: From the SBDi Tips bi-weekly ezine (issue #42). Click here to review the Rules of Engagement Article … more →
Aion Advances the MMORPG Out-of-Game Experience
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taugrim wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s been fascinating to watch the increasing level of real-time visibility of MMORPG content … more →
Business Analysis-The other side of the coin
Durga wrote 3 weeks ago: Business analysis is one discipline which is still in its infant stage. Institutions like IIBA (Inte … more →
Creating a Change Request by Patrick Bowe
patrickbowe wrote 3 weeks ago: “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory”~ W. Edwards Deming I’ve discu … more →
What BA skills are of value in an Agile world?
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magia3e wrote 3 weeks ago: I recently created a post on a BA’s role on agile projects. The essential message was, simply, … more →
