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Quoteworthy: Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. – Douglas Adams
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Quoteworthy: Margaret Fuller
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. – Margaret Fuller
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Quoteworthy: Margot Fonteyn
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The…
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Quoteworthy: Erik Christopher Zeeman
Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. – Erik Christopher Zeeman
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Quoteworthy: Abraham Lincoln
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to…
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Quoteworthy: Seymour Papert
Anything is easy, if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. – Seymour Papert
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Business Analysis Can Kill a Project (In a Good Way)
Scrapping an ill-fated project before it gets started can be as valuable as seeing a project through to successful implementation.
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Quoteworthy: Gustavus F. Swift
Don’t let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life. – Gustavus F. Swift
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Business Analyst “Blueprint for Success”
Alex Papworth has released a free e-book for new and prospective business analysts, entitled Blueprint for Success as a New Business Analyst.
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Communication: Are You the King, or a Guard?
In this scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the king is giving the guards orders to keep an eye on his son,…
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More on Separating Rules from Use Cases
Keeping business rules out of the flow of events makes a use case easier to maintain and reuse.
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Congratulations, You’re Ignorant!
The more we learn, the more we realize we don’t know.
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Passing Thoughts on Business Analysis II
A few more passing thoughts on business analysis.
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Use Case Basics: Keeping it Simple
A few simple tips for identifying and documenting use cases.