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Okay... I want to make an assertion here. In order for agile to work, you've got to understand the static organizational model for your company. Why? If you are organizing around things that...

It’s hard to write academic pieces well. Getting the evidence right takes skill, time and patience. Making sure I have the literature down and accounted for means revisiting notes taken years ago...

Recently, Chris Potts threw this nugget out on Twitter:

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Instead of 'demand-managing' to fit an arbitrary IT budget, challenge whether your strategy needs the value an...

Courtesy of Naomi Bloom’s HR strategy and technology blog, this drawing illustrates the inner workings of failed IT projects.

Study the picture closely, and you’ll see the following:

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A question that often comes up when hiring business analysts or assigning them to specific projects is whether a business analyst has to be a subject matter expert in the domain of the project. I...

Everyone is familiar with the Peter Principle — the idea first described by Laurence J. Peter that people rise to their highest level of incompetence. And we've all seen examples of people who were...

The business analyst in world of COTS projects

The number COTS or Commercial-off-the-shelf-software options have increased exponentially in recent years. A sister of COTS, the “SaaS” or...

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our...

Bear with me on this one...It occurred recently to me (and it jives with personal experience) that:

A PM should be pushy in order to get things moving and done

A BA should be inquisitive and...

It has been about two weeks since I did my last post on business models and thanks to a significant amount of feedback from my colleagues, the business model canvas we're using, has evolved. Now,...

My Google Alert recently picked up a lot of chatter on the Internet about a rumored Dilbert movie in the works. The rumor is ahead of the reality, as the project hasn't been funded, and there isn't...

In a case that has the potential to reshape important aspects of the systems integration business, Marin County, California filed a complaint against Deloitte Consulting for its role in an...

Andrew Sullivan posts a letter today from a reader in England who was laid off a year ago and hasn't had much luck finding a job since. Here's the concluding paragraph:

Several things I've...

(Editor's note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the...

In the past I've very clearly wanted to separate my work as a business analyst from that of the project manager. I thought that by not writing product descriptions the project manager was being...

A wise old soothsayer once said: “The reasons for project failure are more numerous than grains of sand in the desert.”

The diversity of failure reflects the prominent role played by the...

It’s common for me to receive emails from business analysts who are feeling frustrated with their current situation at work, all related to the same theme: the limited business analyst role they...

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