Painful! Definitely! The idea of sitting through a requirement workshop via teleconference seems like torture. Virtual requirements meetings tend to bottleneck our ability to effectively collaborate. Attendees and facilitators: dread the dead air and the anonymous...
As I move forward into each new year, I start thinking about goals–questioning the things I want to do better or differently. This year, many of my goals stand under the umbrella of time. I’ve been thinking about how I use my time and questioning how to...
As the year-end approaches, I get a bit reflective. I consider the past, present and future of BA-Squared. I appreciate the growth, I ponder lessons learned, and I am excited about the future. When BA-Squared was founded in 2008, I didn’t really know what the...
As I tweet my latest BA adventures, I ask Siri to find the best restaurants near my hotel, Skype with friends in Mexico, and order my favorite bottles of Napa Valley wine on Amazon, I can’t help but be amazed by how much technology has saturated my life in the last 15...
Pictures are an important part of BA work. Whether you call it modeling or diagraming or mapping or drawing, the techniques BAs use to turn processes, relationships, ideas and tasks into pictures, remains a valuable technique for nearly every phase of project work....
