Everyone has a career toolbox—a collection of tips, tricks, skills and techniques. The tools accumulate over time: Some tools come with the toolbox: innate gifts, talents. We purchase tools: training, degrees, memberships in professional organizations. Other people...
If I asked you to draw a picture of “leadership” what image would appear? One image you might conjure is an org chart—the typical two dimensional, somewhat triangle-shaped hierarchy. “Leadership” is somewhere near the top. Many BAs buy into this pyramid leadership...
Most PMs and BAs know basic facilitation skills. They know how to plan a meeting, move participants through an agenda, document decisions and manage a “parking lot” of open issues. These basic facilitation skills are important, but they often leave PMs and...
Success and failure: are they really two separate paths? Most of us have heard the rumor that failure is being redefined. Failure might not be bad. It’s even possible, maybe probable, that failure might teach us valuable lessons. If we learn those lessons...
I regularly receive comments from readers about my blogs, but this comment, related to a post about top BA skills, was particularly thought-provoking: “Curiosity seems to be the oddball on this list. I would say this is a characteristic, more than a skill. It is hard...
