WHY ARE WE THE PSYCHOLOGISTS AND THE BABYSITTERS? Often on airplanes I get asked, “So, what do you do?” I am sure if you travel you get this one as well! Do any of you answer with “I am a therapist?” Well, I do, and it works really well! I am a therapist that helps...
Interested in modernizing your requirements practices? Whether your team is waterfall, agile or somewhere in between, these three tips will help you get you started: Collaborate!Get up! Get out of your cube! Get on the phone! Talk to key stakeholders and users...
In my classes and consulting work I get the same complaints when I ask teams about the biggest roadblocks in requirements work: “My stakeholders keep adding features.” “My stakeholders keep changing the requirements.” “My stakeholders don’t know what they...
Do you ever feel more like a psychoanalyst than a business analyst? It can be tough to get into the minds of our stakeholders to get the info we need, but approaching our work like a therapist might be helpful. Consider these thoughts on brainstorming sessions written...
In most organizations, the days of multi-year, single release, all-or-nothing waterfall projects have come to an end. Instead, teams (agile, waterfall and everything in between) are trending toward smaller, shorter iterations. They hope smaller iterations will reduce...
