How to get the mentoring you need
June 27, 2008
In this post, Craig talks about how mentoring helps in learning to be a great Business Analyst (BA) or Project Manager (PM). A master-apprentice style relationship is very helpful but if you can't find a mentor, what are the other options? I think... Read more...
Carnival of Business Analysts # 8 - Enterprise Analysis
June 9, 2008
Previously in the Carnival of Business Analysts we have investigated several of the knowledge areas described in the BABOK (v1.6) Solution Assessment and ValidationRequirements CommunicationRequirements AnalysisRequirements ElicitationRequirements PlanningThe... Read more...
Deployment Gone Wrong
April 13, 2008
Here’s a situation:Your development team has begun implementing a shared enterprise infrastructure. Nobody on the team has ever done this before and they do not take the time to think about how updates will be handled for the software as more applications... Read more...
Design/application architecture within Agile
March 19, 2008
As I said in my previous post, I have a couple of issues with Agile. In that article I spoke about measurement within Agile supporting EVM which I think is necessary for business decisions. The second issue, which I did not discuss, is design/architecture.... Read more...
Measuring the Cost Benefit of Agile
March 12, 2008
Currently at the office we are doing a pilot project using Agile development methods. For the most part, I think Agile is a great idea. The concept of short iterations is a lot more sensible than trying to get everything done up front with the customer... Read more...
How to make the data meaningful
February 27, 2008
To continue the discussion from here and here:Once you convince people to do time tracking, you need to remember that there are different goals to be addressed. If you are a consultant, you need to track time for billing purposes. If you are a project... Read more...
The mechanics of time tracking
February 22, 2008
It isn't easy to manage the problem of getting people to do their time tracking. No matter how many good reasons there are to do time tracking, people still don't see the value until after you show them instances of one of the examples from yesterday’s... Read more...
Good reasons to do time tracking
February 21, 2008
In all the years I've worked in IT, I have never found anyone who didn't have strong feelings about time tracking. Most people I know hate doing it and they all have the same reasons. "It's too much overhead." "I feel like a lawyer." "I don't know... Read more...