BA Squared

JUNE 17, 2020

Here are the most common mistakes I see, ways they go against agile values, and how to fix them: Calling everything on the Backlog a User Story. User Stories are about users, plain and simple! Technical Things as User Stories. The team can break up that story into smaller tasks, just please call them team tasks or subtasks.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This includes not being able to release working software to (selected) users and customers, finding it hard to reliably forecast the development progress , and possibly getting overworked as you don’t receive the necessary support from the development team. If one of these requirements are not fulfilled, the team needs to improve their work.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 3, 2022

The secret to increasing profit margins is to harness big data to find the best price at the product—not category—level, rather than drown in the numbers flood,” they write. Witness the true story of price points. Then they will find ways to track prices with analytics and adapt their pricing strategy accordingly.

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Cprime

MAY 20, 2021

There is a better way to understand and tell the product story. There is a better way to create roadmaps, backlogs, and stories. In the end our process will be stronger, and more importantly, our product will be too. It all begins with early discovery. How do we bring products to life? The Early Discovery Period.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. This flow from investment down to user story is the backbone of “building the right thing.” While the mechanisms of these antipatterns are slightly different, they all end up driving the same impact. Those organizations that invest the blood, sweat, tears (and money!) What happened?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. Why is it hard to to empower teams? Why is it hard? We can talk about why it’s hard. I want to talk about. So that’s the topic.

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GlowTouch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

After two years, I ended up training people. Rather than write about Cheryl, we wanted to let her share more of her story in her own words. In other words, we had to work twice as hard in school to be considered equal, whether we thought it was fair or not. So how did Cheryl become a trainer in the BPO industry?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Like, how did you end up? There were so a lot of guys writing kind of in the rough space and scale project management space, agile project management space, that time Jim Highsmith write on that kind of stuff. But I started writing a lot about what I would do and I started doing talks about what I do. I do, I play guitar.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 29, 2023

The platform was published to answer questions for free at the end of 2022 and in less than a week it has already gained more than 1 million subscribers. But my plan ended there. The creation process Before starting to produce, I already had a good idea of what I wanted to do. Below I transcribe my conversation with him.

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Data Pine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

By the end of this article, making stunning and useful managerial reports will be second nature to you. Management reporting is a source of business intelligence that helps business leaders make more accurate, data-driven decisions. But, these reports are only as useful as the work that goes into preparing and presenting them.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 10, 2022

Here’s a link to the episode itself, followed by an abridged and edited version of our discussion — and you can find the full list of episodes, with links, at the end of this post. Tom Raftery: Hello everyone, work into the industry insights podcast by SAP. I’ve been talking about them for a long time.

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Monday

MARCH 8, 2022

Think about it: there are all sorts of success stories out there about companies that have gone for bold rebrands, cross-continental moves, and secret recipe changes. But for every success story about corporate change, there are probably a dozen horror stories. A big change can really make or break an organization.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

In the worst case, you end up with a feature soup , a loose collection of features requested by the users, customers, or stakeholders. To make things worse, you may end up worn-out and overworked, as you want to be involved in all decisions. One way to answer this question is to avoid unhelpful but common leadership styles.

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Bridging the Gap

JANUARY 4, 2024

What we found insightful about Terry’s story is how he happened upon business analysis through a meaningful conversation with his manager and then subsequently how he found himself a part of Bridging the Gap. TERRY MULLINS: I’d have a hard time here just coming up with a short list because it was extreme.

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Leading Agile

JULY 26, 2023

You can adapt your preferred user stories or use case scenarios accordingly. Go write this database table, go build the screen. And so, we have this backlog, we have this team, and that team needs to have the ability to produce a working tested increment of software at the end of every sprint. It didn’t work.” We’ve seen it.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

They really want that story to come through. At the end of the day, I think we can overgeneralize OKRs. And I would assume that those major cluster of activities that we do, or what we call plays or events inside of our outcomes-based plans would be the pieces of the key results story. Hey Andrew, how are you doing, man?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

New software appears at the end of the line like clockwork. If people aren’t paying attention and actively steering the work, the end result won’t be good. Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. Frequently.

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Sisense

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The Toolbox is where we talk development best practices, tips, tricks, and success stories to help you build the future of analytics and empower your users with the insights and actions they need. It’s obvious that many different developers at different stages (pre- or post-sale) who work with Sisense will end up in the documentation pages.

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GlowTouch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After two years, I ended up training people. Rather than write about Cheryl, we wanted to let her share more of her story in her own words. In other words, we had to work twice as hard in school to be considered equal, whether we thought it was fair or not. So how did Cheryl become a trainer in the BPO industry?

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Agile Coach

JANUARY 16, 2020

What I have decided to do after writing this post (in one sitting, no corrections, other than grammarly…a stream of consciousness if you wwill). When I received my CSM (Certified Scrum Master), CSP (Certified Scrum Pratitioner, and CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), I didn’t need to write a test. endorsements are better.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Even though we tend to think of Agility as nearly synonymous with adaptability, one of the most common goals we see organizations have for Transformation is actually predictability. The good news is that many aspects of Transformation are definable and repeatable, so they can be predictable. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right?

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Insight Software

JANUARY 18, 2021

Perhaps more importantly, it provides an opportunity for the organization to implement measures in advance that can reduce risk, lower costs, and improve the end result. For customers migrating from Dynamics AX, that could mean re-writing existing overlay customizations as extensions. Start with a Functional Review.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

It’s a little bit of an experiment for us, and I’ll check in with you at the end and see what you thought. We have to be able to have the ability to produce a working test in increment at the end of every sprint. In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization.

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Monday

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So why write project plans at all? Follow this step-by-step guide on how to write a project plan and the best tools to use to make each stage of the process simpler. This is where the team ends up doing more work than originally planned. How to write a project plan — step by step. Need help getting started?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

But as I’m sure a lot of you guys have seen as a lot of people run around doing Scrum or SAFe or whatever, and they’re not actually achieving the goals of agility and you know what’s hard? What do we want to be educating our new leaders on? What old things do we want to deconstruct and pull into a new paradigm?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Why Failing Can Be Hard. Instead of build-measure-learn, I now get build-measure- deny ; instead of inspect-and-adapt, I end up with inspect-and- ignore —which is hardly a recipe for achieving product success. If we like it or not, failure is an essential innovation ingredient. But deep in our hearts, many of us dread failure.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead,” writes Robert Greenleaf , the creator of the servant-leadership model. Is the end—a successful product—more important than the means—how we got there? I know that great products are the result of hard work. Servant-leadership means that “one wants to serve, to serve first.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

If you find it hard to justify carrying out the necessary discovery work, then look at the inaction risk, the risk of not making the necessary changes and providing a carbon copy of your product: Which benefits would you lose, such as increasing user satisfaction by simplifying the product and saving maintenance cost by removing features?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Your product discovery work should focus on nailing the value proposition, target group, business goals, business model, and stand-out features of the product—not on writing user stories, designing the user interface, or building the actual solution. If that’s the case, kill it, and move on to another product idea. Talk to the Users.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Story points? Metaphors are used extensively in technical fields. I was pondering some basic questions about them, such as: What is a metaphor ? What is a metaphor not ? How does metaphor aid in understanding unfamiliar concepts? What is the value of metaphor in human communication? What are the limitations and risks of metaphor?

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Bridging the Gap

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I’ll be sharing specific techniques for business process analysis , use cases , and data modeling , as well as success stories from ACBAs. In this video, I am going to walk you through possible solutions, why we use them, and what kinds of requirements techniques are important for you as a business analyst. SaaS is software as the service.

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Data Pine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

They also offer a more dynamic approach to presenting data compared to the rigid, linear nature of Powerpoint or the numbers-without-a-story approach of Excel. At datapine, we believe the goal of each interactive dashboard you create should be better, faster, and stronger decision making while telling a story.

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My Agile Partner

JULY 8, 2020

Feel free to write down your answers on a piece of paper and see the answers after all the questions. In scrum, who validates the user stories so that they go from “test” to “done”? [ ] the scrum master. [ ] the product owner. [ ] the development team. [ ] the whole team. Scrum exercise corrected. 1/ Question 1.

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Sisense

JUNE 25, 2020

To this end, the firm now collects and processes information from customers, stores, and even its coffee machines using advanced technologies ranging from cloud computing to the Internet of Things (IoT), AI, and blockchain. We know this journey will be hard. It’s always going to be bigger than that. It won’t be linear.

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Growing Agile

JULY 18, 2018

I did preschool story times, primary school class visits and outreach to kindergartens. At the end of the retro I read the book again. The idea is if you sit down with someone and ask them all 36 questions, by the end you will love them. You had a hard day, I appreciate your efforts. It was a very productive session.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But if you’re not doing it with like executive support and with an integrated strategy from beginning to end, it’s really difficult to sustain momentum. But if the, if you’re always breaking the way the organization is designed in order to effectively write software, then it’s very hard for it to be sustainable.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The help you need to battle the Wicked Witch of The Way We’ve Always Done Things and the Flying Monkeys of unplanned work, stories that carry over, and big batch work. . Have healthy conflict and end with a better solution. We teach how to write a user story–relatively easy. The Lion: Courage. Be self-reflective.

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