Do *you* look beyond 80/20?
Pareto was an Italian industrialist, sociologist, economist, and philosopher. [1] Today, we often take his name to be a synonym of the much quoted ‘80/20’ rule. This rule is used generically to...
View ArticleInnovate to survive
As any Business Analyst will tell you, “change” is essential for just about any business to survive. Organisations need to be constantly innovating, ensuring that they are delivering the precise goods...
View Article7 Questions to help beat the “Truth Trap”
There are some things that are so obvious that everyone knows them. These are the things that people talk about on busses, trains and in cafes. Nobody questions them because they are common sense....
View ArticleBA Skillset : Refresh the lost art of ‘networking’!
In recent times, there has been a renewed focus on Stakeholder Management during business change projects. Formal Stakeholder Management helps to ensure that expectations are managed, and conflict is...
View Article7 things I wish I’d known when I started my BA career
One of the great things about the Business Analysis profession is that all of us have different backgrounds. I made a number of career moves before I became a BA, and I have never looked back (!) I’ve...
View Article“I want that one”: Helping project stakeholders to define the problem (rather...
I believe that one of the most important success factors in just about any project is having a shared understanding of the “problem” that needs to be solved. Once the problem has been clearly...
View ArticleBusiness Analyst or Subject Matter Expert?
I took part at a fascinating debate at a recent IIBA event. The debate focussed on the distinction between a Business Analyst (BA) and a Subject Matter Expert (SME), and the extent that the BA should...
View ArticleProject Fatigue can kill your chances of delivering! Tips for dealing with it.
I’d hazard a bet that we’ve all been there. We’ve all worked on that project, the one which seems to go round in circles with hundreds of false starts, changes of approach and seemingly endless issues...
View ArticleWorking with project managers to juggle the triple constraint
I’m pleased to say that my most recent blog article has been published on “Bridging-the-gap.com”, where I have contributed as a guest author. I’d love to hear what you think, so please feel free to...
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Project Health Check : 5 serious project warning signs
As experienced change practitioners, I’m sure we’ve all worked on projects that have been difficult. The unfortunate truth is that some projects gain so much momentum, they become “too big to fail”....
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