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Read My Lips: Requirements Provide NO Value!

I was telling a colleague the other day a coaching story that I found somewhat humorous. I was visiting a potential client not that long ago and my timing was just right. That day they were running their sprint reviews, so I asked if I could attend and they generously agreed.

I remember each of the teams showing PowerPoint presentations that represented the results of their 2-week long sprints. They had apparently spent hours on the slides, searching the web for interesting artwork and photos that somehow represented the features that they'd worked on. They worked incessantly to match their slide prose to the images and try to tell a very compelling and humorous story that captured their overall sprints efforts.

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Is There a Personality Profile for the Project Manager and Business Analyst?

During a presentation on the topic of the BA and PM roles recently, someone asked me a question about personality types. She asked if there were, generally speaking, certain personality traits for PMs vs. BAs. I asked the crowd what they thought. Here are some of the responses.

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Energizing Flailing Projects

Business analysis is all about detail - the right kinds of detail at the right time. The problem with new projects, especially large ones, is they tend to "flail', spinning wheels in unnecessary directions as they struggle to gain momentum. Here are some tips and traps to stop the flailing.

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Labor Day Is Here!

Labor Day marks the end of summer and back to school. Time for those last day trips to the beach. Time to lock up the summer cabins and houses. Time for back to school shopping (on a bit tighter budget this year!).
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