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3 Business Analyst Skills that Add Value Every Day!
Delivering value to the organization and it's end users is job #1 for all stakeholders and project team members. We know this, but we...
5 High-Impact Questions Every BA Should Be Using!
Success or failure often hinges on the questions we ask throughout the project lifecycle. It sounds a bit dramatic, but I’ve...
3 Ways to Bring Agility into Your Requirements Practice
As we move into 2017, most organizations are experimenting with agile. Their experiments often lead to big questions about requirements...
Avoid These 4 Things During Your Daily Stand Up
I typically use my blogs to offer tips and tricks for business analyst and product owner roles, but in recent months, I have been hearing...
Get Off The Documentation Hamster Wheel
Most teams spend too much time on documentation. When planning, elicitation, and analysis are done well, documentation becomes...
Adapt 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...