Culture determines how people behave. If you want to change behaviour, you have to look to changing the culture. This is the story of how we changed the culture of …
Visualising Business Analysis
Visual thinking opens up new possibilities that can take your business analysis practices to the next level, writes Grant Wright, Principal Consultant at Scarlett Solutions and co-founder of The Visual …
What’s the Point of Business Events?
Whatever it is you are working on, it is almost certainly made up of many, sometimes very many, pieces. Each of the pieces interacts with other pieces to achieve some …
12th Annual Business Analysis Conference Europe
The 12th annual Business Analysis Conference Europe 2020 took place recently 22-23 September and we were delighted that this, our first ever virtual Conference received positive feedback from our delegates, …
3 Simple Creative Habits That Will Change Your Career
If you work in a company, that you aren’t part of the “creative team” or don’t have a position that is suited to creativity, this is definitely for you! Most …
How Will It Work? The Future How Viewpoint.
In a previous article Business Analysis Viewpoints we discussed a number of ways of looking at systems. The intention of these viewpoints is to make it easier to see and …
Unaccustomed As I Am To Public Speaking Part 5
This article in my series on Presentation Skills I am going to look at something that all presenters have to face and overcome… I’m talking about nerves, stress, the heebie-jeebies, …
Unaccustomed As I Am To Public Speaking Part 4
In my last post I discussed crafting the structure of a presentation. In this post I’m going to take you through some of my thoughts regarding how your deck should …
Business Analysis Viewpoints
There are an infinite number of ways of looking at any system. This article examines useful viewpoints that help Business Analysts to understand the real problem and come up with …
Once Upon a Narrative: A Case for Story
“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are My two-year-old son is a big fan of Maurice Sendak’s …
Building Your BA Career
The world of work is becoming more and more competitive, and much of the work that specialist technical professionals do is continually being assessed for either automation or the application …
Death of Attention – No time to think.
YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!Look around you and everywhere you go; restaurants, the subway or even a walk in the park, people are staring intently at the small screen in their hands. …
Business Analyst & Product Owner – How Mindfulness helps you keep the Balance
“Be mindful, even if your mind is full” – James De La Vega (artist). Today’s BA is a chameleon, adapting to circumstances and fulfilling many roles in any project or …
Doing Well By Doing Good
The world of business is coming under greater public and political scrutiny than ever before. Companies must act now to ensure a positive environmental and social impact, or risk having …
Making Workshops More Engaging and Interesting Using Design Thinking Techniques
Design thinking is a customer centric approach putting the customer at the heart of the analysis to understand what they really need and uses techniques that focus on understanding them. …
Starting a Quality Program from Scratch
Small to medium-sized companies must continuously improve or die. Approximately 84% of all American companies have less than 50 employees. There must be more focus on helping the entrepreneurial organizations …
Unaccustomed As I Am To Public Speaking Part 2
How’s your submission coming along? If you are intending to speak at this year’s BA Euro conference in September you’re running out of time to put your submission in to …
Change Overload!
The purpose of this paper is to share ideas for how we identify and estimate how much change is happening in our organisations mitigate the risk that there is so …
Unaccustomed as I am to Public Speaking…
For the last seven years I have spoken at the BA Europe Conference in London and it’s fair to say it has changed my life. It has provided me with …
Innovation Triggers
This article discusses a checklist of triggers we have developed for Business Analysts to help to inspire innovation. James Robertson & Suzanne Robertson, Atlantic Systems Guild, http://www.systemsguild.com/ James and Suzanne …