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Entries for March 2009


» Slideshow: Agile for Analysts
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Agile for the rest of us
Posted by: Craig Brown

» BABOK 2.0 Launch
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Kevin has shared the beginnings of the IIBA's BABOK 2.0 chapter on Enterprise Architecture with us all on his website. We'll be digesting it in the next few days. In the meantime there is an online launch of the new BABOK and you are invited.  It's tomorrow so check out the details now.
Posted by: Craig Brown

» Adaptability - a key skill for a business analyst
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I have been  pondering recently on the importance of adaptability for a business analyst. Definition of adaptability It seems to me that adaptability is a key skill of a business analyst because no two projects are alike. It’s not possible to apply a template approach to every project situation with which you are confronted. Howev...
Posted by: Alex P

» Agile plus Prince2
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My view is that you are making a serious compromise to the potential benfits of swapping across to agile methods if you hang on to a traditional pm process like PRINCE2, but others have different views. Here is one from New Zealand (I think.)
Posted by: Craig Brown

» Who owns a Project? and, who is IT’s Customer?
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Who owns a project?   “You pay for it, it’s yours.” I am sure I am quoting (or misquoting) someone here, but you get the idea. For an IT project of any size or worth, someone senior enough to be an effective sponsor is usually desired, along with the budget to ‘pay’ for it. I put ‘pay’ in quotes because all the dollars spent on a projec...
Posted by: David Wright

» Raising the bar in Business Analysis and Internal Consulting
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Internal Business Analysis and Consulting teams are increasingly recognised as playing a vital role in delivering successful projects.  More and more they are contributing to complex and strategic projects and performance expectations from executives are getting higher. Are you interested in improving Business Analysis and Internal Consul...
Posted by: SmartProjects

» Test driven development
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Test driven development is not actually a test methodology.  It's a design philosophy that says "start with the end in mind"  (Thank you Mr Covey.) Here is a slideshow introducing some of the concepts and ideas within the agile method called Test Driven Development. Test Driven Development Tutorial:
Posted by: Craig Brown

» John Zachman at UK IIBA Meeting in February
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John Zachman provided an extremely entertaining introduction to the Zachman framework followed by an update on forthcoming IIBA activities from Martyn Wilson, chairman of the IIBA. John Zachman Many of you will have heard of John Zachman as his framework has been around for thirty five years or so. It is used for that much discussed, little under...
Posted by: Alex P

» Scrum in one hour
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Here is the co-author/assembler of the scrum process describing it at Google.  It's a more in-depth description of the process. Check back with the last agile post's questions and think about whether this presentation has given you a deeper understanding.
Posted by: Craig Brown
  
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