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MBA228: Software Development Pearls
Karl Wiegers started programming in 1970 and has collected 60 lessons he has learned in several areas of software development including requirements,...
MBA227: The Minimum Viable Business
Many organizations, especially as people are trying to work in more Lean and Agile ways, work towards producing a minimum viable product (MVP) and mov...
MBALC: Elon Musk’s 5-Step Design Process
In a recent interview, Elon Musk shared the 5-step design process he uses at Space X to achieve better results. Below are the details of this design...
MBA226: The FOCCCUS Formula
In every process or value delivery system, there’s one constraint (bottleneck) that limits the flow of value of the entire system. If you want to del...
MBA225: The Value of Business Models
Creating product requirements and delivering features is one thing. Understanding the business context and business models associated with your produc...
MBA224: Corkscrew Thinking
We’re often called upon to apply our problem solving skills and help organizations make better decisions. The challenge is when we face really tricky...
MBA223: The Human Work Machine
As knowledge workers, we rely on our brains and relationships to get things done. That’s where some of the challenges lie. The hard skills of business...
MBA222: Testing Your Business Ideas
Studies show that 7 out of 10 products fail to deliver on expectations. We often fall into the trap of moving forward with a project, product, or bus...
MBA221: Systems Thinking and Business Agility
We live in a complex, rapidly changing world. In order to support our stakeholders and our organizations, we need to expand our view and adopt a syste...
MBA220: Thoughtless Design with Karl Wiegers
We’re all experienced products that are confusing, difficult to use, and cause frustration. Author Karl Wiegers has pulled together a collection of p...
MBA219: How To Be an Agile Business Analyst
To be successful as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment, you need to apply your same traditional skills and techniques differently. Kent McDon...
BA Toolbox – A3 Report
What’s an A3 report? An A3 report has several uses including business proposals and process improvements. However, it’s most commonly used for probl...
MBA218: Customer-Centric Transformation
Over the past several years, many organizations have transformed the way they work and the way they’re organized. With Digital and Agile transformati...
Lightning Cast: Agile Planning
Responding to change over following a plan. This value listed in the Agile Manifesto doesn’t mean that we don’t do planning in Agile. In fact, we pl...
MBA217: Objectives and Key Results
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal-setting system to help drive strategic execution. It’s a critical thinking framework and ongoing discipli...
Lightning Cast: POWER Start for Your Meetings
According to a recent Atlassian survey, professionals waste 31 hours each month on unproductive meetings. That’s about four full days wasted each mon...
MBA216: Outcome Based Change
Many transformations and large initiatives fail or don’t achieve their intended value. While the transformation, project, or large initiative may be...
Lightning Cast: Resistance to Change
A lot of people talk about how difficult change is and how people resist change. People don’t actually resist change; they respond to a change by eva...
MBA215: The Challenges with Leading in Product Management
Listen to the full episode to discover the challenges associated with leading as a Product Manager and what you can do to overcome those challenges.
MBA214: The BA Success Path
Many Business Analysts struggle to understand how to get to the next step in their career. The way to advance in your career depends on where you are...
MBA213: Applying Theory of Constraints
Perhaps you have Agile teams that are doing everything right; they’re limiting work in progress, communicating well, and delivering with quality. But...
MBA212: Transforming Your Work with Modern Agile
Agile is about finding better ways of working. To continuously improve and achieve the right outcomes for your organization and your customers, we ne...
MBA211: Adaptive Leadership
We live in a time of unrelenting change. To enable teams and organizations to deal with this new reality, we need a different approach to lea...
MBA210: Vital Communication
One of the issues holding organizations back is the
development of their leaders. A lot of
what it takes to develop as leaders are the co...
MBA209: Visual Thinking
Do you want to increase retention of information, ensure alignment and a shared understanding, and increase creativity? Visual Thinking can help get...
MBA208: Facilitative Leadership
How
can you unleash the power of large, diverse groups of smart, experienced
individuals to deliver positive business results through soft...
MBA207: Bad Behaviors in the Workplace
Have you ever witnessed toxic behaviors that bring down a team or lead to project failures? Bad behaviors can come in a variety of forms; from rollin...
MBA206: Succeeding with Analytics
Many organizations are implementing analytics programs. Unfortunately, four out of five analytics projects fail.
Listen to the full episode to...
Lightning Cast: BA Goals Revisited
The post Lightning Cast: BA Goals Revisited appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.
MBA205: Beyond Data Literacy
Many organizations are trying to use data for better decision making. Unfortunately, most aren’t getting the value they expected. Recent research su...
MBA204: Top Skills for 2020
Earlier this month, LinkedIn came out with their list of skills companies need most in 2020. The article lists the most in-demand soft and hard skill...
MBA203: Career Insurance
The unfortunate reality is that many of us will experience unexpected (and undesired) career changes. Companies may merge, the economy may slow down,...
Yes, Virginia, There Are BAs in Agile
DEAR EDITOR: I am 30 years old.
Some of my coworkers say there is no Business Analyst in Agile; especially with Scrum.
My boss says, ‘If y...
Lightning Cast: Failure to Launch (a new product)
Disney recently launched its Disney+ streaming service. Unfortunately, the launch was met with some
problems as many of their 10 million subscr...
MBA202: Business Value Analysis
We’re doing things . . . but are they the right things? This is a common challenge for many
organizations.
It all comes down to value suc...
MBA201: Tips From an Accidental Product Owner
It’s tough to play two roles at once. If you’re expected to perform your normal business
analysis activities and also function as a Product Own...
MBA200: Take Action! The Best Advice from Over 200 Episodes
As long-time
listeners know, I ask guests for one action that we can take to start seeing
some positive results. In this episode,
I...
MBA199: The Future of the BA Profession
With changes in working environments from Agile and digital transformations, Business Analysts need to adapt to stay relevant.
With this change....
MBA198: DevOps – What it Means for BAs
Many organizations are using DevOps to benefit their
customers. But what is DevOps and what
role do Business Analysts play? Is DevOps
MBA197: Making Change Fun
When it comes to change, often the only one who isn’t afraid is the person driving the change. Sometimes a person’s response to change seems irration...