The Data Administration Newsletter

JULY 5, 2022

Whichever metaphor you would like to use, what is certain is that no organization will survive the twenty-first century without optimizing the use of its data assets. As enterprises race to become data-driven businesses, a latent tension is intensifying: Is data the “new oil”? A “toxic asset”?

Government 52

Government Cybersecurity Data Governance Data Architecture 52

Cprime

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” I can’t think of a better visual metaphor to promote the benefits of a template or canvas for framing ideas and getting teams aligned. This is why most templates encompass a beautiful visual metaphor which acts as an anchor, aligning a team on a common theme when attempting to discuss something that is yet to be defined.

Visualization 52

Visualization Vision Innovation Planning 52

Watermark Learning

AUGUST 26, 2021

lists three metaphors that are used to describe the role of a business relationship manager (BRM): connector, navigator, and orchestrator. These three metaphors are helpful when understanding the BRM role. BRM can be a role, a discipline, or an organizational capability. The BRMP® Guide to the BRM Body of Knowledge (version 1.3)

Portfolio Management 98

Portfolio Management Project Management Innovation Planning 98

Smart Data Collective

JULY 23, 2021

Although laughable and at most amusing two decades ago, hackers are currently an entirely different animal that requires an entirely new metaphorical cage to be kept at bay (and a whole arsenal of serious tools to boot). Hacking and hackers have been part of popular culture for a long time.

Cybersecurity 349

Cybersecurity Supply Chain Government Artificial Intelligence 349

Analysts Corner

JANUARY 13, 2023

So I went to look for a metaphor to illustrate this and found one that is quite well known in an article by Henrik Kniberg, but I wasn’t very happy with it. My product owner would not agree that you get a car by building a scooter, a bike and a motorcycle first.

Agile 130

Agile Banking Business Analysis Business Analysis 130

Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) — One of the key takeaways from JTBD, in comparison with other approaches, is that understanding why a product or service was “hired” (a JTBD metaphor) includes not only the functional dimension, but also the circumstances and emotional dimensions.

Business Analysis 246

Business Analysis Business Analysis Documentation Agile 246

Netmind

MARCH 11, 2021

It is a narrative or metaphor to help simplify our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous reality that we all live in today. Let’s take a look at what each term means, how they can affect us, and when to opt for one of these definitions over the other. First, what do we mean by VUCA? appeared first on Netmind.

Vision 97

Vision Agile Big Data Planning 97

Juice Analytics

MAY 26, 2021

Let’s take a bigger bite of this metaphor… The filling Sometimes people make the mistake of thinking that a lonely data visualization is itself a data story. In data stories, these flavor boosters are often specific examples, call-outs, or insights that capture the attention of the audience.

Data Visualization 93

Data Visualization Visualization 93

Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 5, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, few metaphors are as powerful as the sales funnel. We recently talked about the benefits of using big data in marketing. We even discussed some tools that leverage big data to get more value out of marketing strategies.

Big Data 314

Big Data Data Analytics Data Analytics 314

Watermark Learning

AUGUST 25, 2021

When referring to the role, there are three metaphors used in The BRMP ® Guide to the BRM Body of Knowledge to describe the business relationship manager (BRM): connector, navigator, and orchestrator. These three metaphors are helpful when understanding the BRM role.

Project Management 98

Project Management Portfolio Management Planning Innovation 98

Whizlabs

APRIL 21, 2021

The word ‘Chef’ is used as a metaphor in this case. We must say that it is one of the most engaging and metaphorically conceptual programs ever launched in the online tech-lecture sphere. In fact, it made us research and look into it to provide and give our knowledge hungry audience something that is resourceful.

Monitoring 80

Monitoring 80

Cprime

MAY 10, 2022

Use Templates and visual metaphors as a framework for individuals to embrace diversity of thought before converging on ideas. You are creating visuals to generate ideas and solve problems while looking to enhance team collaboration and accelerate learning. You are not trying to create a work of art. Structure over fancy drawing.

Visualization 98

Visualization Design Thinking Agile 98

Leading Agile

APRIL 12, 2021

Eventually, with the permission of the CTO, we metaphorically locked the architects in a hotel conference room with a laptop and forced them to build a proof of concept in a timebox fashion which resulted in a decision to retain the status quo methodology.

Innovation 118

Innovation Planning 118

Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Metaphors could be used for this as they use a tabooer topic and make it relatable to the masses, causing immediate connections. It may seem like all the best names have already been taken, but that was the case for Steve Jobs when he created Apple – the best names haven’t been created yet!

Big Data 188

Big Data Digital 188

Business Analysis Excellence

APRIL 30, 2019

INTRODUCTION We’ve all heard the metaphor about the seed that when it is planted and nurtured it will grow into a beautiful tree, haven’t we? A BUSINESS IS LIKE A TREE, WHERE YOU PLANT IT – MATTERS. I would like to take one step back by looking at the importance of the environment you choose […].

Business Analysis 40

Business Analysis Business Analysis 40

Domo

JANUARY 27, 2021

At Domo, we like the metaphor not only because we pride ourselves on anticipation and agility, but because we actually sponsor a hockey team—and have since 2014. The phrase was coined by the father of the NHL’s all-time scoring leader, Wayne Gretzky , but corporations have probably put it to use more than anyone else.

Skillset 95

Skillset Vision Agile 95

Agilemania

AUGUST 17, 2022

To achieve a state of Quality, it needs to be built-in, metaphorically Quality is a first-class citizen. Built-in Quality. As explained by Deming, “Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product”.

Planning 52

Planning Agile Stakeholder Management Digital 52

Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

So I went to look for a metaphor to illustrate this. > I also had to explain that he will get the application in increments that might not look like the end product. At least not at first. But it’s a good thing.

Artificial Intelligence 130

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Architecture Business Analysis Business Analysis 130

Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

A Metaphorical Journey. An Expedition is a “journey” from the current state to a goal state, starting wherever the client organization may be in our Compass model, and striving to reach a milestone in the Transformation that we represent as a “Basecamp,” in keeping with a mountain-climbing or hiking metaphor.

Agile 118

Agile IBM Support IBM Maintenance Banking 118

Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While I agree with Seth’s premise in general, I do not think he meant the metaphor to be extended to agile teams and most importantly to those playing servant leader roles. Come to think of it, Seth Godin wrote a book in 2011 called Linchpin: Are You Indispensable ? Have you heard of or read that book?

Agile 113

Agile Monitoring 113

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Most organizations are projectized, and approve dollars for projects, and then deploy people into projects and form teams made by slicing people and teams into little bits to make them fit into the project metaphor to execute on a project. Those teams end up having a lot of dependencies. And dependencies kill Agility. .

Agile 129

Agile Government Planning 129

Monday

APRIL 1, 2021

A sales funnel is a metaphor for the stages that a potential customer has to take in order to become an actual customer. The funnel metaphor was adopted to represent the idea that you’ll start with a wide pool of leads, which will only narrow from there. Get started with monday.com. What is a sales funnel? Let’s start simple.

Planning 52

Planning Digital User Experience Project Management 52

Vitality Chicago

MARCH 31, 2022

No one goes out of their way to make things difficult, however poor operating metaphors and one size fits all solutions are never optimal (I hear the complaint that absolutes are never true). Problems with how teams are structured generate friction which causes all manner of problems.

Agile 94

Agile 94

Agile Coach

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I read a Linked In post titled ‘ how to pass your agile coach/ScrumMaster interview ‘ which filled me with enough metaphorical rage to create this session. At the Toronto Agile Tour last year, I ran a session called ‘ How to Hire an Agile Coach ‘ and what inspired it was the state of Agile Coaching at the time.

Agile 68

Agile Change Management 68

Leading Agile

JULY 19, 2021

You may recall that Covey introduces the P/PC Balance concept early in the book using the goose and the golden egg metaphor, where the golden egg is the Production (P) of desired results and the goose is the Production Capability (PC). The focus now being on interdependence or our relationships with people.

Agile 62

Agile Vision Change Management Government 62

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

And so like, the analogy I use, the reason why I talk about refactoring is because I think there’s like a really strong metaphor here. If you guys go back to like, you think about like Jeff Patton’s, Mona Lisa metaphor, which I think is just brilliant, right? So, the metaphor that I use and they’re all systems metaphors, right?

Business Architecture 140

Business Architecture Agile Project Management Government 140

Clarasys

JUNE 14, 2021

In part 1 of this series, we drew on the favourite Netflix series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, using the metaphor of chess to simplify customer experience (CX) strategy. In the same way that chess demands you to make the right set of choices in order to execute a game-winning strategy, so too do business-related strategies, such as CX.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Customer Experience Digital Transformation Digital 52

Argon Digital

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

So, put on your fedora, grab your metaphorical whip (or stylus), and embark on your next treasure hunt of requirements with confidence and enthusiasm! So, put on your metaphorical detective’s hat and embark on your next analytical adventure with the same enthusiasm and determination as the great Sherlock Holmes.

Documentation 52

Documentation Business Analysis Business Analysis Innovation 52

Leading Agile

JULY 15, 2019

We use the metaphor of expeditions and going on journeys to get from where you are in the sort of chaos mode of I value predictability, but what I’m required to do keeps changing on it.

Agile 72

Agile Planning Product Management Product Management 72

Netmind

JANUARY 12, 2021

Over time, tips, metaphors , images, and concrete examples have been removed. More academic. This is closely related to the “elegance”. Because of this, it has become more of a paper that establishes principles rather than an application guide. Generalization.

Visualization 59

Visualization Agile Vision Documentation 59

Cprime

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Metaphorically, your organization needs to have a North Star that likewise provides a solid, stationary, and reliable guidepost that product teams can use to navigate the design and development process, among other things. The rest of the starfield seems to rotate around Polaris because of its position directly above the Earth’s North Pole.

Vision 52

Vision Agile Project Management Innovation 52

Perceptual Edge

AUGUST 19, 2019

It would cause us to become metaphorically lost in the forest, among the trees. Imagine yourself in the midst of a 3-D scatter plot, with data points all around you. Would this offer a better view? Quite the opposite, actually. How much of the data could we see if we were located in the midst of it? Very little at any one time.

Data Visualization 62

Data Visualization Visualization Vision 62

Cprime

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Need for a New Approach The challenge, therefore, lies not only in breaking down these physical and metaphorical silos but also in fostering a culture of collaboration and mutual understanding.

Finance 52

Finance Agile Innovation Planning 52

Business Analysts

MAY 13, 2020

To clear this up, I tend to refer back to the metaphorical story that is on the Microsoft website for identity management. Often times people will confuse Access with Authorisation. It is a frustrating paradigm where often times people will use either term interchangeably and end up confusing us all.

Business Analysis 52

Business Analysis Business Analysis 52

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Agile introduced a fresh metaphor for conceptualizing how to structure systems and teams, determining the work allocated to these teams, gauging progress, and executing transformation initiatives that facilitate the formation of Agile teams within organizations.

Agile 62

Agile Government Planning 62

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 31, 2018

That’s consistent with the cooking metaphor. A Chef recipe looks declarative, like a manifest, but the keywords are actually Ruby method names, and the recipe is executed sequentially from top to bottom; so it’s really imperative. If you performed the steps in a real recipe out of sequence, the food wouldn’t turn out well.

Documentation 101

Documentation 101

Word of Digits

JUNE 7, 2022

This approach is a method based on a biological metaphor. Initially, the design system included the few elements from the first rebranding that they needed to keep, such as colors and typography. Then, they continued the work by following the Atomic Design approach.

User Experience 52

User Experience Digital Innovation Documentation 52