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What is BUSINESS Agility?
Last month, I went to the BusinessAgility2017 conference in New York City. The 2-day conference highlighted the benefits and challenges of...
Top Six Critical BA Skills For The Future (And Today!) – Part Two
When I wrote part one of this article series, I wanted to go deeper and have heard from many that deeper is where part 2 needs to go!...
10 Point User Story Evaluation Quiz
Are your user stories effective? Whether you've been using user stories for years or you're just diving in, it's important to regularly...
Top 6 Critical BA Skills For The Future (And Today!) – Part One
As we cruise through the last days of 2016, it’s important to peek in the rear view mirror. Reflecting on the past reveals patterns and...
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...