Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A lot of articles on business analysis career development, BA tools & techniques, Agile, AI and Enterprise Architecture this time. Plus as a bonus some curated lists of books recommended for product managers, BAs, and architects. Business analyst, systems analyst, BI analyst, process analyst, change manager, and so on.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

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Leading Agile

JULY 19, 2021

We are at the midway point in our Agile Transformation-focused exploration of Stephen R. I’m sure we’ve all said it in business and even relationships, but how does Covey intend it towards being highly effective and what does it mean to an Agile Transformation? With that, let’s now consider Habit 4 – Think Win/Win.

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Agile Coach

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Yesterday Adriana Girdler and I presented Timeless Leadership at the Toronto Agile Tour. Our intent was to show that everything we need to know about leadership has already been invented, we just need to stop and look around once in a while instead of jumping on the next agile fad. Remember the ‘being vs doing’ debates?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 12, 2021

Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, with regard to effective Agile Transformation. Therein lies the nugget of gold that leads us back to effective Agile Transformation. We’ve talked about how an Agile Transformation is a massive exercise in change management.

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Agile Coach

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I didn’t renew my contract many months later because I couldn’t see any evidence that this organization was interested in being Agile. Well, I was the Agile Consultant. I was hired because there was a smattering of agile-y stuff on my Monster profile, and my CSM designation was some sort of proof I had a clue.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2021

This title probably attracted two types of people – people who are wondering what the role of the ancient practice of martial arts has in organizational change management. Consequently, this model of Dojos provides hope but does not create long-lasting change. Want to Change Culture? Agile Transformation Explained .

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript. Like what are the networks of teams?

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Training ByteSize

JUNE 25, 2020

Today we’re exploring Agile Business Analysis. Agile Business Analysis an increasingly popular subject and the APMG course, the Agile BA , complements other agile management disciplines such as Agile PM and Scrum. So, in your view, is the Agile Business Analysis course useful? Very useful indeed.

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Netmind

JANUARY 18, 2021

For more, I recommend taking a look at the following books: Designing for Behavior Change : More on how to design based on the behavior change we want to generate from our users. Agile Change Management : More on how to plan based on outcome from an agile approach.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 25, 2023

Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation; they’re all just different ways large organizations attempt to achieve the same results. For any of these approaches to work, we’re going to have to fall back on the principles of change management and get super intentional about how we approach Transformation.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more.

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Agile Business Architecture Pharmaceutical Planning 71

BA Squared

JULY 9, 2020

In 2012, I stated that the following are the key drivers of business analysis in organizations, and this has NOT changed! Business Agility. Engagement of stakeholders to drive agility and innovation. Get Your Free E-Book. 8) Change Management . Innovation. 4) Decomposing the Abstract into Details .

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Netmind

JANUARY 18, 2021

For more, I recommend taking a look at the following books: Designing for Behavior Change : More on how to design based on the behavior change we want to generate from our users. Agile Change Management : More on how to plan based on outcome from an agile approach.

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GAVS Technology

JULY 6, 2021

Do you also think, “ITIL is just Incident, Problem & Change Management. ITIL is a rigid set of tools, procedures, and processes and if you don’t follow what’s in the books, it’s not ITIL.” “ITIL is for infrastructure or production only.” And yes, CMDB!” And yes, CMDB!”.

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Insight Software

MARCH 19, 2021

In the midst of all this change, managers must deal with the challenges of fluctuating occupancy rates, tightening credit, and new headwinds that make collections more difficult than ever before. In this post-COVID environment, business agility is essential. How Can Real-Estate Businesses Become More Agile?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It’s kind of agile transformation adjacent. It’s a little bit of maybe an impediment to agile transformation that we’re going to explore. And I’m going to talk a little bit about what leading Agile’s doing about it and what we’re doing in the market. Hey Dennis. How you doing, man?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It’s kind of agile transformation adjacent. It’s a little bit of maybe an impediment to agile transformation that we’re going to explore. And I’m going to talk a little bit about what leading Agile’s doing about it and what we’re doing in the market. Hey Dennis. How you doing, man?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 26, 2021

My three-year-old granddaughter has a number of favorite books that she likes me to read to her. The vision journey will require progressive elaboration through a change management process or enterprise transformation playbook. One is a story about Helen Keller.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

I don’t spend a bunch of time on LinkedIn, but the other day, I was scrolling around and happened to catch a thread where some folks in the Agile community were debating if SAFe was actually Agile. In short, it really comes down to what you mean by Agile and Agility. One of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? How do we get our executives to have more confidence than fear in the changes we’re trying to make? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile.

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Business Bullet

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

About 15 years ago I decided to pluck up the courage to set up in business on my own and established Scarlett Solutions, a boutique consultancy firm specialising in Business Analysis, Business Architecture and change delivery. I gradually started to introduce visuals into my notes from podcasts, meet-ups and conferences.

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Cprime

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The reason this question is so relevant to DevOps is because if you look for example, at the Accelerate book and the, DORA research, they list these 24 DevOps capabilities. Almost every single one of them involves radically changing how you do software delivery. It’s what makes agile and agility go.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 12, 2022

Since then, Dean Leffingwell’s brainchild, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has become the popular emerging agile framework for business agility according to the 15th State of Agile Survey. . SAFe’s ability to achieve business agility is possible due its four core values that include- . But what is SAFe? .

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Clarasys

JULY 5, 2022

So the first one is the Com-B model of behavioural change. And then the second one is all around, solution design and delivering that through agile methodology. So for example, in your travel software that you’re using to book travel or employee travel. I’m not going to talk too much about that today.

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Managed Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Have you thought about how Agile and the current coronavirus crisis are related? I think that there is a lot we can learn from applying an agile approach to the coronavirus crisis. Why Is a Different Management Approach Needed? These same changes have a similar impact on organizational and business management as well.

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Insight Software

APRIL 25, 2024

The internal controls include physical IT assets like computers, network hardware, and electronic devices that handle financial information intangible IT assets like IT security, data backup, risk management, change management, and access management.

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Insight Software

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Address Your Company's SAP Skill Gap with Low-Code Automation Access Resource Finding the Path to SAP Data Success Addressing these concerns through proper training, data quality assurance measures, transparency, and effective change management can help alleviate user fears and build trust in SAP data.

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Insight Software

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Plan for Agility and Adaptability. Over the past two years, business agility has become the new imperative. Seamless integration between the plan, the reporting platform, and core transactional data are essential to making the entire process manageable, and for maintaining accuracy. That can be uncomfortable for many people.

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