Is Your PM/BA Collaboration a Pressure Cooker?

  Is your project’s red-yellow-green status for requirements based on percentage complete of the requirements document? Or percentage complete of the JIRA stories documented? Maybe this is why requirements are taking so long! Is the focus on the status of the...

Do Tight Timelines Make You Feel Like a Document Dispenser?

Tight timelines put pressure on the entire project team. When the project plan dictates unreasonable durations, BAs become document dispensers focused on cranking out BRDs or cramming user stories into JIRA.  PM pressure often forces BAs to focus on documents instead...
Bring Your Requirements Practices Out of the ’80s!

Bring Your Requirements Practices Out of the ’80s!

  What are you hanging on to? What do you need to purge from you project closet? Still fond of the requirements equivalent of MC Hammer parachute pants, jackets with shoulder pads, stirrups, acid wash jeans or jelly shoes? If you’ve been using the same...