Archive for May, 2009
Requirements Elicitation: “Most Valuable” Questions
A few of my favorite requirements elicitation interview questions, and an idea for cataloging them.
Best of the Web this Week (09-21)
There are tons of great articles on business analysis and other topics of interest for project professionals that come out each week. It’s impossible to keep up with all of them, but I like to occasionally point out a few I’ve come across that I think align fairly well with what you folks (PA readers) like. Enjoy!
Are “Project Teams” Really Teams?
My personal study of what makes successful teams, to which I’ve recently alluded, is ongoing. Most recently I came across the article “Project teams are not teams”, which seems to provide a pretty direct answer to the question I posit in the title of this post.
It’s All About the Teams
As an industry have we been missing the mark by focusing so much on process and methodology at the expense of developing and empowering cross-functional teams?
Passing Thoughts on Business Analysis & Requirements
Here are just a few impressions I’ve jotted down over the past few weeks that may never evolve into full blog posts, but that I wanted to share just the same. Please feel free to chime in with your support or challenges to my list, or with your own observances.
So, what do you do, exactly?
Business analysts? How many times have you been asked what you do for a living and had to pause to think for a minute about exactly how to describe it?
I’m with Einstein
What are some things we could improve by simplifying? How can we think differently and what can we do differently to get the desired results instead of the same old results?