Analysts Corner

MARCH 9, 2023

This article was first published in The Data Pub Newsletter on Substack on January 5, 2023. For over three decades, Microsoft Excel has been an essential piece of business software, with around 86% of businesses using it for planning and budgeting (Cherry Solutions, 2022). As spreadsheets are rarely tested, these errors remain hidden.

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Analysts Corner

JULY 13, 2022

In the beginning of projects, there is often uncertainty how to start with actual implementation of software product, especially when using agile framework. Photo by Gia Oris on Unsplash In case of bigger projects for software development, with complex processes, there are usually many stakeholders involved. What is our goal?

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 20, 2023

So if you’re looking to transition from one of these positions to the role of business analyst this article will help you. Advantages As developers you can leverage your experience in the software industry as follows: You understand the technical language and software development concepts and constraints.

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BA Squared

AUGUST 16, 2021

I do not mean simply a clean compile and testing complete. Agile has been around now for 20 years (agile as a term in software), whereas the practices have been around much longer. After 20 years, there seems to be continued conversation about the BA role on agile teams.

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The BAWorld

JANUARY 23, 2024

So, this article will guide you through the Top Business Analyst Soft Skills Required. Understanding the customer’s perspective is paramount, as software applications are developed for the customer, not the analyst. They excel in scenario analysis, foreseeing problems, and proposing solutions.

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Capiro

AUGUST 2, 2023

This article identifies ways of specifying functional requirements. This article considers functional requirements in the context of a commercial business environment. Another way of looking at this is to consider a problem that the set of users needs to solve. The same, or similar, principles apply to all environments.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

link] In this article, I demonstrate how it is possible to use Chat GPT as an assistant (or helper) in executing business analysis tasks based on a case study that deals with developing an application by a startup. Check out this interesting interview and the behind-the-scenes of how it was carried out in the Interview with GPT Chat article.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

When you look at the literature that’s out there, I was reading an article recently about empowering teams, and the very first line in the step of the five steps for how to empower your teams was “manage your teams in an empowered way.” I would suggest that that is not the healthiest path to take that conversation.

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Astera

MAY 6, 2024

Data mining tools are software that assist users in discovering patterns, trends, and relationships within vast amounts of data. Data mining tools help organizations solve problems, predict trends, mitigate risks, reduce costs, and discover new opportunities. Several users have found the software difficult to learn.

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Capiro

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But there are significant problems with these attempts. The problem with ‘simple’ definitions. It’s a made up word, which is why you see different forms, for example: ‘Nonfunctional’, as often used in English articles. Non-functional’, as typically used in American (US) articles, and in this article. ‘Non-functional’,

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Old ways of working won’t solve it, and simply implementing practices like Scrum, DevOps, FinOps, or ProOps are not sufficient to create the organizations we need for the changes we must make. Here are some books you need to read, try this article, attend this conference, or go to this two-day course. So what can we agree on?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

We’re starting to see HBR articles written more than one. So, really difficult to come in and say, yeah, Agile is going to help me lower costs so you end up starting to have a conversation around throughput and highest value and deploying resources, people and dollars and things like that, into the most valuable things, right?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

.” I was reminded of the old joke by a recent article by John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, entitled “Closing the Loop: The Importance of External Engagement in Computer Science Research.” They aren’t thinking about developing a general model for a class of problems.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

. – So I’ll tell you a little bit about me and my background and the kinds of things that me and the folks at LeadingAgile are doing and what is really shaped this talk and this conversation. And a lot of times I was getting a conversation that went something like yeah, I’m not talking about team level stuff.

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MindsMapped

JULY 18, 2020

As someone had rightly said, you can’t solve the problem until you are asking the right question. Throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), business analysts help in different phases of the project. Most people reading this article would have heard about this before. Business Analyst.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

You want to create an open space for both, your stakeholders and users, in which you are able to facilitate a conversation filled with empathy and understanding. You can do this by sourcing third party data, or running a small test to prove the results. How to be a great UX research leader: Engage your stakeholders [Article].

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Argon Digital

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Agile : An iterative approach to project management and software development that is characterized by the division of tasks into short phases of work and frequent reassessment and adaptation of plans. This linear progression continues till the final phase of the project is reached and the software is delivered.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Subsequently, my teams inform me, “The leadership wants you to have a conversation with them.” Getting team strategies right, synchronizing backlogs, and efficiently producing working software at scale are crucial. They deliver functional, incremental software at the conclusion of each sprint, followed by feedback.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” ” Problem Addressed. Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. What has changed?

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This article is about the more elusive, yet essential things, you’ll need to take with you on your Agile journey. Moving from managing through status and reports to encouraging and supporting teams to meet their commitments, allowing working software to be the most important measure of progress. On this journey, you’ll be tested.

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Marutitech

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As sentiment analysis is the domain of understanding emotions using software, we have prepared a complete guide to understand ‘what is sentiment analysis?’, The contextual analysis of identifying information helps businesses understand their customers’ social sentiment by monitoring online conversations. .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

So how do you get an organization to actually, solve the problems you’re paying to solve when they’ve wasted, two thirds of their money and they’re two thirds the way through the schedule and thing is a disaster. But optimizing individual processes didn’t solve the whole. How do you like fix it?

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Whizlabs

APRIL 19, 2021

David is also a contributor to IEEE Cloud Computing and has published countless number of articles and books over the years. Drew started off his career as a Software Engineer. 30+ years of experience has led him from Software Engineer to CEO, Vice President and currently he works at VMware. What happens next fascinates Adrian.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Some ATS (application tracking software) programs can’t or won’t read the header and footer content. Lead the conversation yourself! For example, if you are a QA analyst trying to break into business analysis, I don’t need to know the details of how many test cases you ran a day or the number of defects you found in a week.

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Monday

JULY 1, 2021

He published an article in the Harvard Business Review called “Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate,” saying that: “Most of the work being done does not add any value for customers, and this work should be removed, not accelerated through automation.”. Image Source ). The best part?

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Monday

APRIL 1, 2021

This article will teach you everything you need to know about sales funnels, including why they exist in the first place, how you can create a good one, and how to avoid common sales funnel failures often made by the less-than-experienced. More than ever, the conversion funnel needs to focus on a fifth stage: the post-purchase stage.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

These conversations often involve cost accounting versus throughput accounting. You have a well-defined backlog, and you’re able to produce a working, tested increment at the end of every sprint. Although it may feel like an attitude problem, it is important to recognize that an operating model needs to be developed.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I got introduced in Agile back in 2002, was working in some pretty large complicated financial services, software products, and we were doing a lot with Agile, but we were also doing a lot with the rational unified process. They like to exchange ideas and solve problems, but they’re not necessarily trying to get things done on time.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most systems implemented in large IT organizations are point solutions implemented to solve local (departmental, business unit, or team) problems. I was showing their development teams how to automate functional tests using Cucumber. Today’s new is added to the mix, and becomes part of tomorrow’s old.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I got introduced in Agile back in 2002, was working in some pretty large complicated financial services, software products, and we were doing a lot with Agile, but we were also doing a lot with the rational unified process. They like to exchange ideas and solve problems, but they’re not necessarily trying to get things done on time.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. The former is achieved by solving a problem or by providing a specific benefit. This sounds simple enough. But what is a product?

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Data Pine

JANUARY 18, 2023

This presents a problem for many modern organizations today as building reports can take from hours to days. Your Chance: Want to test a modern reporting software for free? Your Chance: Want to test a modern reporting software for free? Try our 14-day free trial & start building interactive reports today!

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Sisense

MAY 26, 2020

Data generated from online conversations, comments, tweets, etc. For more details, refer to this article. While training a model for NLP, words not present in the training data commonly appear in the test data. Because of this, predictions made using test data may not be correct. For more details, check out this article.

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Data Pine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Ultimately, it will provide a clear insight into relevant KPIs and build a solid foundation for increasing conversions. Below, in the article, we’ve gathered some of the marketing reports templates that can easily be used to perfect the efficiency of generating data and reduce the time needed to create it. Use professional software.

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Tableau

MAY 7, 2021

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Forbes. For several months, I’ve conversed with government leaders and health officials, considering their concerns and questions and discussing how data analytics can assuage them. State, and Local Government at Tableau Software. Forbes BrandVoice. Kristin Adderson.

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Tableau

MAY 7, 2021

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Forbes. For several months, I’ve conversed with government leaders and health officials, considering their concerns and questions and discussing how data analytics can assuage them. State, and Local Government at Tableau Software. Forbes BrandVoice. Kristin Adderson.

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Data Pine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Everything is being tested, and then the campaigns that succeed get more money put into them, while the others aren’t repeated. Your Chance: Want to try a professional BI analytics software? BI software uses algorithms to extract actionable insights from a company’s data and guide its strategic decisions.

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