June, 2020

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Business Analysis Professionals Around the World: Be Heard | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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If the Shu fits?

Growing Agile

Blogging doesn’t come naturally for me, I find it hard to find topics to write about that I think other people will find interesting. Why would anyone read something I wrote? Imposter Syndrome hits us all in different ways I guess. So I am following the advice of a dear friend who said ‘just do it’…. Now you may have stopped reading already, but for those that haven’t, I’d like to take you on a journey of Shu-Ha-Ri.

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Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Time Bands at Seconds Granularity in Power BI and SSAS Tabular

BI Insight

I wrote some other posts on this topic in the past, you can find them here and here. In the first post I explain how to create “Time” dimension with time bands at minutes granularity. Then one of my customers required the “Time” dimension at seconds granularity which encouraged me to write the second blogpost. … Continue reading Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Time Bands at Seconds Granularity in Power BI and SSAS Tabular.

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Self-Service Data Prep: A Tool for All Business Users!

ElegantJ BI

Why Do I Need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Why would your business need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Perhaps you have a team that includes IT professionals that can prepare data for analysis or maybe you have a business analyst or a data scientist to serve that need. But, there are plenty of good reasons to consider data preparation tools that are easy enough for every team member to use.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Secure Your Data Prep Area

Tim Mitchell

I’ve been building ETL processes for many years, and I’ve learned two universal truths: data preparation is messy, and you must always secure your data prep area. A data prep area is very similar to a commercial kitchen, and in the same way that customers aren’t allowed in the kitchen, so should data consumers be kept from accessing in-process data.

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Why Scaling Agile is Essential for Your Organization | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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The 12 Agile Principles. Part One.

Growing Agile

Much is said and written about the Agile Manifesto that if I were to write about it, I’m sure it wouldn’t be anything that hasn’t been said before. There is less material out there around the 12 agile principles that go along with the manifesto though, so I’d thought I’d put out there my own thoughts around these 12 sentences that help us understand how to apply the agile manifesto in our daily work.

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Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Time Bands at Seconds Granularity in Power BI and SSAS Tabular

BI Insight

I wrote some other posts on this topic in the past, you can find them here and here. In the first post I explain how to create “Time” dimension with time bands at minutes granularity. Then one of my customers required the “Time” dimension at seconds granularity which encouraged me to write the second blogpost. … Continue reading Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Time Bands at Seconds Granularity in Power BI and SSAS Tabular.

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Self-Service Data Prep: A Tool for All Business Users!

ElegantJ BI

Why Do I Need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Why would your business need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Perhaps you have a team that includes IT professionals that can prepare data for analysis or maybe you have a business analyst or a data scientist to serve that need. But, there are plenty of good reasons to consider data preparation tools that are easy enough for every team member to use.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The role of UX research now and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Userzoom

There has never been a challenge like COVID-19. Not just for businesses, but for every individual. Some organisations have had revenues decimated, traffic come to a halt, markets practically vanish, supply chains cut off, conversion rates fluctuate like never before, and of course mass furloughing. I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a U

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Getting Hired in Agile w/ Priya Sethuraman

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Once you reach the point where you’re ready to pursue a job in Agile, the next hurdle you’ll often face is, “How?” Convincing someone to give you a job as a ScrumMaster or a Product Owner can be tough if you have no experience.

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Good Business Analysis Is More Important Than Ever | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Lead the Stakeholders—Don’t Please, Don’t Dictate. As the person in charge of the product, your aspiration should be to lead the stakeholders in order to create value together and achieve product success. In reality, however, some product people either aim to please the stakeholders by saying yes to their requests or by brokering compromises. Others do everything they can to make the stakeholders agree to their ideas and plans.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Product Management Training in 2020: How to Decide

280 Group

As Product Managers (PMs) and Product Marketers (PMMs), you want to know that you’re doing meaningful work and are creating products that impact consumers lives, in a very real way. But when 70-95% of products fail , what can you do to beat the odds? Even the most experienced PMs and PMMs have been bested by the market. 280 Group’s Product Management Skills – Benchmark Report evaluated how training and a formal product process helps improve core skill sets to ultimately advance a PM’s career.

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Self-Service Data Prep: A Tool for All Business Users!

ElegantJ BI

Why Do I Need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Why would your business need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Perhaps you have a team that includes IT professionals that can prepare data for analysis or maybe you have a business analyst or a data scientist to serve that need. But, there are plenty of good reasons to consider data preparation tools that are easy enough for every team member to use.

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Agile Teams Need More Than User Stories To Build Great Products

BA Squared

A Tale of Two Teams. Let’s take a look at backlog refinement from two approaches: . Team A . A customer provides the team with feedback on their website ordering process and says “I want a button on my email receipt for my order to “view shipping details”. The team prioritizes this and gets to work. They build it quickly in a sprint and release it. Then, weeks later they get feedback to add shipping details to the “My Orders” page.

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Your Introduction To CFO Dashboards & Reports In The Digital Age

Data Pine

As a chief financial officer (CFO), the weight of your company’s fiscal wellbeing most likely rests on your shoulders. Not only are you responsible for the ongoing financial strategy of your organization, but you’re probably expected to provide timely, accurate reports to a variety of stakeholders. With so much responsibility and such little time, financial data analysis is no easy feat.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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Wearing Many Hats – The Modern BA | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Reporting in Haiku

Juice Analytics

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been running a survey to find out how people feel about reporting. In the survey, we asked respondents to provide three words that come to mind when you think of reporting. Semantic text analysis is great, but the best way I found to extract the essence of this question was through haiku. These are your words, rearranged.

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What is Business intelligence (BI) and its application?

Phocas

Business intelligence (BI) uses software to convert reams of information into bite-sized insights to inform decision-making. The software receives data from a company's ERP system and other data sets via a sync tool or API. The BI tool then analyzes the data sets and presents findings in reports and dashboards. The purpose of BI is to help people in an organization obtain an easy to understand summary of how a business is tracking, so they can address areas of concern or opportunity.

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Modern BI & Mobile BI for Business Users!

ElegantJ BI

Mobile BI and Personalized Dashboards: Important Components of Modern BI! If your team is using business intelligence (and it should be), you may be working with a more restrictive business solution that is not designed for a business user. If that is the case, you are missing an opportunity to cascade analytics throughout the organization and to optimize your resources and improve productivity.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.

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Common User Story Mistakes Teams Make and How to Fix Them

BA Squared

An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. John F. Kennedy. As a product ownership expert and coach, I see teams make a lot of the same mistakes that compromise the very progress they are trying to make. The paradox here is, these patterns and mistakes are done with good intention, for what seems to be the right reasons, and sadly create more challenges.

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Big? ?Data:? ?The? ?Secret? ?to? ?Starbucks’? ? Supply? ?Chain? ?Success?

Sisense

Blog. The right use of data changes everything. Disrupting Markets is your window into how companies have digitally transformed their businesses, shaken up their industries, and even changed the world through the use of data and analytics. When Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl opened the first Starbucks store in 1971 near the historic Pike Place Market in Seattle , they couldn’t have known that their small, local coffee shop would turn into a worldwide empire.

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Is Agile … Limiting for Business Analysts? | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Unveiling the Agile Operating Model

Leading Agile

New strategies or dramatic shifts in existing strategies require an examination of an organization’s operating model. Agile is a new business paradigm, but few established companies understand what needs to change to make their business Agile. Most think it is about speed and flexibility. They forget about efficiency and resiliency, key fundamentals without which companies fail to achieve their desired speed.

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Facilitate Risk Management for Medical Devices within Azure DevOps

In this whitepaper, we will describe how to facilitate risk management for medical devices directly in Azure DevOps. In particular, we will focus on how manufacturers can achieve ISO 14971 compliance and overcome key challenges in the process.