Student Success Story

Facilitation skills matter! A great facilitator uses a variety of techniques to make meetings interactive and collaborative. No matter what types of meetings you lead, great facilitation skills will help you get more reliable and enthusiastic participation from your...

Boring Meetings?

Are your project meetings boring and ineffective? What do you see in your meeting room: heads resting on hands or arms, eyes on phones or laptops, people coming in late or leaving early, blank stares when you ask questions, hands paging forward through documents? What...

A Business Analyst’s Best Friends: The Business Sponsor

Successful BAs are the calm, center point of a complex group of interrelated people, roles, and processes. BAs maximize their value to the organization by ensuring the alignment of stakeholder needs and value. In order to promote alignment, BAs rely on strong...

A Business Analyst’s Best Friends: The QA Lead and QA Team

Successful BAs position themselves in the eye of the project storm. They are the calm, center point of a complex group of interrelated people, roles, and processes. BAs are in a prime position to ensure—when the project storm settles—that all pieces are connected and...

Think Like a Globetrotter

Take a look at the picture. If I told you to shoot a basket or block a shot, would this be your perspective? Probably not. Creativity is the key to innovation. How do we flip, twist, rotate, deconstruct, reconstruct, integrate to improve our products and processes?...