Okay… I want to make an assertion here. In order for agile to work, you’ve got to understand the static organizational model for your company. Why? If you are organizing around things that…

It’s hard to write academic pieces well. Getting the evidence right takes skill, time and patience. Making sure I have the literature down and accounted for means revisiting notes taken years ago…

Courtesy of Naomi Bloom’s HR strategy and technology blog, this drawing illustrates the inner workings of failed IT projects.

Study the picture closely, and you’ll see the following:

• …

Recently, Chris Potts threw this nugget out on Twitter:

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Instead of ‘demand-managing’ to fit an arbitrary IT budget, challenge whether your strategy needs the value an…

A question that often comes up when hiring business analysts or assigning them to specific projects is whether a business analyst has to be a subject matter expert in the domain of the project. I…

Everyone is familiar with the Peter Principle — the idea first described by Laurence J. Peter that people rise to their highest level of incompetence. And we’ve all seen examples of people who were…

The business analyst in world of COTS projects

The number COTS or Commercial-off-the-shelf-software options have increased exponentially in recent years. A sister of COTS, the “SaaS” or…

Bear with me on this one…It occurred recently to me (and it jives with personal experience) that:

• A PM should be pushy in order to get things moving and done
• A BA should be inquisitive and…

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our…

It has been about two weeks since I did my last post on business models and thanks to a significant amount of feedback from my colleagues, the business model canvas we’re using, has evolved. Now,…