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Discover a new approachAdapt to Every Project Environment With These 3 Tools!
Is it possible for Business Analysts to shift seamlessly between agile, traditional, hybrid, waterfall and package software projects? Yes!...
3 Reasons Value Needs To Be At The Center Of Your Project Triangle
Over the years, I’ve helped many teams find success by identifying and removing roadblocks. One roadblock that seems to be...
Are you Walking Dead with Documents?
Is project documentation wearing you down into a zombie-like state? Are you spending all your time updating requirements and managing...
2 Requirements Tasks You’re Probably Spending Too Much Time On
Can you guess the number one question I get from requirements leaders across the world? Whether their team is agile, traditional or...
9 Things We Should Talk About from the Agile2016 Conference
As a practitioner of mindset over methodology and value over process, the Agile2016 conference was a giant slice of professional heaven! ...
Feature Thinking Vs Value Thinking: What’s The Difference And Who Cares Anyway?
How do you start your requirements process? Many agile and traditional teams start their process by defining features. While I...
What Happens When You Don’t Have a Product Vision?
I’ve given Agile Product Ownership talks at a few conferences and the response has been great. BAs and BA leaders are beginning to...
What Can Aerobics Teach us About Collaboration?
Are you old enough to remember the aerobics craze in the ’80s? Denise Austin donned her leotard and leg warmers, and Richard Simmons sweat...
Great Things Happen When BAs and POs Become BFFs
Despite the fact that business analysis provides HUGE benefits to agile teams, it's still rare to find teams that know how to maximize...
5 Things The Legendary Musician and Artist Prince Can Teach Us
When I sat down in a Canadian hotel room to write this article, I had a completely different topic in mind—a rant about the length of TSA...
What Does a BA Practice Look Like in Agile?
An agile BA practice is part of, and an extension of, the Product Ownership Team. The BA practice helps the team build the RIGHT product...
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?...
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...
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...
Design Thinking and User Centered Design: A Lens for Modern Requirements!
What can BAs and Agile Product Owners learn from Design Thinking and User Centered Design? It's not all about UX and UI! It's about the...
Hearing Crickets on Web Conference Calls? 3 Tips to Get People to Participate!
Dead air and chirping crickets--is that what you hear when someone asks a question during virtual meetings? It's frustrating for the...