The Agile Business Awards – March 2023
A chance to showcase your organisation’s success with Agile and receive free feedback from industry experts on your achievements, followed by a virtual 2-day conference of celebration and shared experience.
Tools Corner: RACI Matrices
A key responsibility for both Business Analysts and Project Managers is that of managing stakeholders. Stakeholders are those individuals with a vested interest in a specific business change. Typically, they include: those directly targeted by...
The Three Questions of Documentation
At some point in your career, it’s likely that you’ll be asked to write documentation; whether it’s a full business case, or a flier for sharing news or information. Whatever you are asked to...
Agile Executive Forum 2015, Washington DC
The scene was set in the auditorium in the Center for Innovative Technology in Washington DC. As a part of the Agile 2015 conference, and organised by local Agile Coaching and training company Lithespeed,...
Does My Business Actually Need Business Analysts?
Conferences are great places to engage in some interesting (and often unexpected!) discussions. Recently, whilst at a Project Management conference, I was asked the question: Does my business actually need Business Analysts? I have...
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): Scaling Scrum to Enterprise Level
The benefits of using an Agile approach for delivering IT products and software are now well-established. The majority of organisations use the Scrum Agile approach, which is optimised for team-level working, but how do we...
And We’re On Air! Welcome To The New Blog
Since we opened our doors as a training and consultancy company 33 years ago (wow, that’s quite something in itself!), the world has changed immensely. We’ve always taken great pride in our friendly, down-to-earth approach...
BCS Business Analysis Certification Updates
Everything you need to know about the new BCS Business Analysis Diploma Following the rebranding of the “BCS” to “BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT”, focus has now turned to the ISEB certification portfolio....
Introducing… Web Project Essentials
Introduction The Greek Philosopher Heraclitus once said “the only constant is change”. The sentiment is as true now as it was over two millennia ago, and most people would agree that the pace of...
The Agile Business Analyst
IT’s All About Being Agile You’re working as a Business Analyst in a traditional project environment, specifying the requirements for IT Developers to build. Suddenly everyone around you is talking about Agile. The managers...
Innovating out of a Recession
The ability to innovate and be creative is an imperative during a recession. Almost a quarter (23%) of CEOs in a recent study by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) said that it...
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