Have you ever heard this phrase?
“What gets measured, gets done.”
It contains huge truths about human nature, or at least my nature. I pay more attention to something when someone else is paying attention to it. I didn’t have to study the Hawthorne Effect to know this. Looking at my own life, [...]
Our speaker at this week’s IIBA Dallas Chapter meeting is very ill. With only 48-hours, it’s not much time to get a new speaker, so I will be presenting! Please come on over this Thursday to hear me present on Feature Injection and Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
Unleashing the Power of Behavior Driven Development [...]
Aaron Erickson is a co-worker I’ve not yet met. As the New Year turned over he wrote a great post, Why I Work At ThoughtWorks (and why you should too…). I do not disagree with anything Aaron wrote, but I want to add some amplification based on some very personal opinions.
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The primary mission for most IIBA chapters is serving the local members. We serve our members with chapter meetings, training on tools and techniques, and networking events. Many chapters offer help preparing for CBAP certification, online discussion forums (Nice example here [IIBA Dallas]), information about local [...]
I have met BA Managers who attend IIBA meetings, but it’s never been very many or very consistent. Most of them were active BAs and really enjoyed the profession. A few come announcing a job opening and often leave following their pitch.
This is a serious mistake, one of the biggest mistakes you can make [...]
As a profession, business analysis has come a huge distance in the last decade. Most Business Analysts now understand how to elicit good requirements, want a defined project scope, can write a good requirement, understand and use either User Stories or Use Cases, know how to negotiate agreement between business and technical partners, and so [...]
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