Can Conference Calls be as Effective as Face-to-Face Meetings?

When I think of collaborative and innovative project meetings, the picture on the top is what floats into my mind. I see people standing in small groups. I see everyone focused, engaged and contributing. I see whiteboards, flip charts, drawings and sticky notes. But...

5 Lessons from Working with Agile and Waterfall Teams

Over the course of my career, I have always been intrigued by leaders who promote a specific methodology or tool or process as THE RIGHT WAY to deliver solutions. They dispense mandates and proclamations to promote their all-or-nothing, purist approach to methodology....

What’s Your Secret Weapon in the Battle Against Bad Requirements?

BAs and PMs use hundreds of tools and techniques to boost the quality of their requirements practices. From simple to complex, things like brainstorming, user interviews, traceability maps, context diagrams, and detailed data models help us gather information needed...

Sticky Situations: How do Business Analysts Influence Ethics?

We’ve all found ourselves in sticky situations at work—those grey areas between right and wrong that really test our ethical boundaries. The nature of BA work, facilitating change and protecting stakeholder value, launches BAs into the middle of many sticky...

Building Better Requirements

Strong requirements management practices remain a critical component of project success. In fact, poor requirements management is the #2 most commonly-cited reason for project failure according to “PMI’s Pulse of the Profession: Requirements...