Business Analyst Learnings

AUGUST 16, 2020

From running physical workshops with a room filled with eager participants to managing virtual workshops where participants are in different geographical locations with some participants perhaps preferring to hide behind their screens. Set expectations and ground rules around how the workshop session will flow.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I teach these principles in Q2 20201: Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer. It took me a while to figure out how to organize the workshop so everyone (including me) could succeed. This workshop is for you if you want to: Make writing easier. The writing workshop starts April 12, 2021. Or make writing easier?

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Clarasys

JANUARY 14, 2021

So what have we discovered through carrying out these workshops? Join Alex, Hannah and Sarah in our latest podcast as they discuss their experiences of facilitating the CX workshops and share with you some of the learnings, tips and tricks behind CX success! The post Podcast: CX workshops appeared first on Clarasys.

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Juice Analytics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The goal of this workshop is to enable you to bring data to life and use it to communicate a story to an audience, with a focus on simplicity and ease of interpretation. Workshops are designed for anyone who needs to communicate more effectively with data.

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Agile Business Consortium

MARCH 9, 2021

If you would like to learn how cognitive diversity can be visualised and leveraged to better enable growth, transformation, and organisational agility, we have partnered with Proffesor Scott Hutcheson, and Strategic Doing Institute to offer a cognitive diversity workshop. How does it work? How do I register? For non-member, the price is £149.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Enroll in my Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas. Workshop details and testimonials on the writing worksho p page.). The post Q4 2021 Writing Workshop (Free Your Inner Writer) Open for Registration appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Please join me.

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Netmind

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A while back I facilitated an inception workshop for what will be our client’s first agile project… I want to share my experience. The first step was to conduct an efficient workshop to agree in more detail on how the team would collaborate (sprints, roles, etc.) Inception Workshop Part 1: Vision and Roles. — Miquel.

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Business Bullet

MARCH 7, 2021

I am going to share some of the tools and techniques I have used for running workshops and meetings virtually. If like me you have been working from home for the last 12 months you may have found there are challenges to running workshops as it can seem more difficult than if everyone is in a room together.

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Domo

MARCH 22, 2021

Enter Domopalooza 2021 , which takes place March 24 and will offer no shortage of workshops designed to help you get your arms around the beauty and benefits of the quintessential Modern BI platform: The Domo Business Cloud. To see which workshops are most relevant to you, explore the agenda.

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Cprime

JANUARY 19, 2021

Now, let’s take a look at what happens in a SAFe Inspect & Adapt (I&A) Workshop and how it influences the next PI planning session. What is the SAFe Inspect & Adapt Workshop? The Inspect & Adapt Workshop is essentially the release train equivalent of the team’s Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

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EBG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I have found one of the best ways to create a healthy product community is with facilitated workshops. These workshops are usually driven by product management requiring buy-in of multiple work products including: Clearly defined product vision, goals, strategy, and quantifiable customer outcomes. What Are Workshops?

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Netmind

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Recently, I held a workshop at the Agile Trends Festival for participants to experience the design thinking process and experiment with applying it at the organizational level. The design thinking workshop was built around a generic problem that the attendees themselves were experiencing: finding a work-life balance. .

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The BA Doc

JANUARY 7, 2020

Have you ever facilitated or participated in a workshop that just didn’t go so well or didn’t seem to accomplish much? If so, chances are there was a lack of preparation, the goals weren’t clear, or the participants were.

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The BA Doc

JANUARY 7, 2020

Have you ever facilitated or participated in a workshop that just didn’t go so well or didn’t seem to accomplish much? If so, chances are there was a lack of preparation, the goals weren’t clear, or the participants were.

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Netmind

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Recently, I held a workshop at the Agile Trends Festival for participants to experience the design thinking process and experiment with applying it at the organizational level. The workshop was built around a generic problem that the attendees themselves were experiencing: finding a work-life balance. . What is Design Thinking? .

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Agile Velocity

MARCH 30, 2020

As a person who has a high preference for in-person workshops, transitioning to a 100% virtual delivery and facilitation has been an experience to say the least. However, there are a few things I learned in the last few weeks that helped make our workshops more fun and engaging. I like a 10-min break. Have a co-pilot. Things go wrong.

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BA Times

APRIL 27, 2023

Asking questions during interviews or as part of a structured requirements workshop is commonplace. However, the most important question is one you should be asking yourself: Am I asking the RIGHT questions? Here are a few of my favorite elicitation questions and what they might reveal about your project.

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Leading Agile

JULY 30, 2018

If you conduct hands-on technical training classes or workshops, you may have experienced some delay at the start of the session in getting all the participants configured and connected so they can start working. We might ask the host to configure internal servers with the resources needed for the workshop.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

Workshops where we work as a team. The more often I support people in their preparation, the faster we can get to the topic under discussion or of the workshop. That might be a workshop. The post Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Thinslices

MAY 26, 2020

Discovery workshops are a great way to establish the parameters of a new collaboration. With the shift towards remote work for most of the tech industry, we recently had our first remote discovery workshop. We’ve been doing them since 2017, on-premise, with the focused goal of understanding a potential client’s needs.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 29, 2019

This announcement is that Esther Derby and I have teamed up to offer online workshops based on Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. Go to Your Management Mentors to see our first offering: A self-study workshop about one-on-ones. Who is the course for? Managers or leads who should conduct one-on-ones and are not.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I have revamped my writing workshops (finally). The Q1 workshops are now available. Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer (Q1 session starts Jan 1, 2019). Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 2: Secrets of Successful Non-Fiction Writers (Q1 Session starts Jan 2, 2019). Hope you decide to join the workshop.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

I have finally finished recording the videos for my writing workshops. Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 1: Enhance Your Business and Reputation (Q1 session starts Jan 2018). Writing Non-Fiction Workshop 2: Secrets of Successful Non-Fiction Writers (Q1 Session starts Jan 2018). If you have questions, ask away.

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Perceptual Edge

JULY 8, 2019

For the first time since I retired from teaching data visualization workshops in 2018, Nick Desbarats of Practical Reporting Inc. The workshop will take place in Portland, Oregon from October 28-31, 2019. will be teaching my courses publicly in the United States. I’m particularly thrilled about Nick’s first U.S.

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BA Times

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Whether it’s one-on-one interviews, workshops, observation or one of the many other techniques, elicitation is a key source of information. Elicitation is a key business analysis skill. As BAs, it’s easy to think that we are highly attuned listeners, carefully scouring the airwaves for tasty morsels of relevant information.

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InfoQ Articles

JANUARY 19, 2021

In the book Kanban Compass, Justyna Pindel shares her experiences from applying training from the back of the room and systems thinking in her Kanban workshops. She adapted her training approach by connecting with attendees and providing them suitable exercises to maximize learning opportunities. By Ben Linders, Justyna Pindel.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 28, 2022

It’s hard enough to come up with the right requirements through discussions, workshops, and prototypes. Continue reading on Analyst’s corner ».

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 15, 2019

The post Announcement: New Distributed Agile Teams Online Workshop appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. If you have questions about how an agile approach might work if you're thinking of working virtually, or are wondering how to make an agile approach work for your current team, start with this course. Any questions?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2023

If this sounds like what you want to do, learn and practice with me in my upcoming writing workshop. But if you wish you could write faster and better, and not spend nearly as much time on editing, please join me in the Q2 2023 writing workshop. That's the main workshop page.) I wish you much writing success.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 11, 2022

A few examples: document analysis, questionnaires, prototyping, workshops and brainstorming. Example: Workshop Design Imagine your manager asks you to run a workshop to understand issues with the company’s refund process. They’ll be interviewing people, understanding the history of events, looking at documents.

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Business Bullet

JUNE 14, 2020

Helen Winter speaking at the European Business Analysis conference 2019 in London on how to make workshops more engaging and interesting using design thinking techniques. . The post Making Workshops More Engaging and Interesting Using Design Thinking - H Winter, BA Conf Europe 19 first appeared on Business Bullet.

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Business Analyst Mentor

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I’ve been running a series of requirement gathering workshops recently which reminded me about the tools for business analyst workshop, the ‘physical stuff’ you need to have in place to.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 8, 2023

Even when I've offered workshops about the topic at hand, I always learn when I write. If you want to experiment with me, please see Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer & Sell Your Nonfiction Ideas. You still have time to register for the next workshop, which starts May 19. Check out the workshop.)

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BA Times

JULY 21, 2022

Over a decade ago, I was in a workshop with a range of different stakeholders. Everything seemed to be going well, and people seemed to be agreeing and we were even running ahead of the meeting schedule. Around halfway through the meeting a particular issue was being discussed, a conclusion was going to be drawn and […].

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BA Times

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ll often be coordinating with stakeholders, running workshops, or presenting documentation to teams. You might already know the technical skills you’ll need to be a great Business Analyst (BA) but do you know the essential soft skills? The role of a BA is deeply rooted in working with people. To be a successful BA you’ll […].

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

Then, in late 2019, a fellow consultant asked me to run a workshop about consulting. Would I please run a consulting workshop so he could learn those secrets? At the time, I thought I had the right user journey for the workshop and the eventual book—because I used my journey as a consultant. (I What were my secrets?

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