Archive for June, 2007
Excellent Resources for Business Analysts
Thinking of trying your hand at business analysis? Already a BA, and want to find information that will help you hone your skills? Just wondering what in the world a Business Analyst is, and what he/she does? If so, I hope you’ll find this post helpful.
There are lots of great Web resources available to BA’s and those with similar interests. Below is a list of just a few of my current favorites, in no particular order.
You Know It’s Getting Deep When..
I really enjoyed Chris Woodill’s collection of “weasel words” that IT delivery folks will use to buy time, deflect responsibility, or describe a situation as much rosier than reality. Now, I’ve never met Chris, but having read through this list, I’d almost swear we must have worked on the same projects with some of the same people!
Links for 2007-06-22
Welcome to Practical Analyst, a site specializing in practical insight for business analysts and project professionals. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or follow me on Twitter. Thanks for stopping by! Jonathan Miles: Fingerjig Typing Game Fingerjig is a 6 minute game that tests your typing prowess. Words [...]
Links for 2007-06-21
Modern Analyst | The Community for Business & Systems Analysts Modern Analyst is a community and resource portal for the business analyst, systems analyst, as well as other IT professionals involved in the business analysis or systems anaysis activites of software engineering. (tags: businessanalyst) Meeting Management Made Easy This article presents some useful tips for [...]
Links for 2007-06-19
Better Projects: Ethics in project management Craig Brown discusses ethics in project work & encourages reflection on personal core values as well industry standard values and how they align with one’s project work. (tags: ethics management) Change is Bad? Mistakes are Worse | Tyner Blain Scott Sehlhorst takes on CNET over an article implying in [...]
McDonald’s Burgers and High-Quality Business Analysts
What can business analysts learn about quality from McDonald’s?
Meeting Agenda as Catalyst?
What are leading reasons for unproductive review sessions of project deliverables? One comes quickly to mind for me – how about when 90% of your invitees show up without having even glanced at the materials in advance. For one thing, holding a meeting in this environment is not only incredibly inefficient, but it is also [...]