My biggest motivator for understanding project management was working with bad project managers. I'm usually not this critical, but if you're stuck on a project with a bad project manager, things are ...
Do you use surveys to conduct analysis for your requirements? My guess is no. But I hope that will change after reading this article. Surveys are a great way to collect data to support your analyses. ...
Too Many Words We've all heard that a picture's worth a thousand words and I would say that's a conservative number. The right picture has the ability to convey tens of thousands of words if it's stru...
Toad Data Point v3.8 is now available. Like our last v3.7 release we made a lot of nice improvements – many of which were customer ideas! We really appreciate user contributions. For a full list of...
Communication Breakdown Communication breakdowns are the worst kinds of problems for business analysts. As a business analysts, your job centers on effective communication. However, how many times is ...
A Wiki Is More Than Just A Dictionary One of the great tools that came out of the agile software development movement of the 1990s was the wiki. There's no need to go into a long explanation of what a...
If your data analyst or data preparation teams are like most, chances are your organization is producing and sharing a lot of data in different output formats that cannot be easily tracked. This means...
Pop quiz: Why don’t organizations run their production systems on the C drives of individual computers? Answer: Running important production-level work on a standalone desktop or laptop can be risky ...
First the good news: At this very moment, there is hidden data query and data prep gold throughout your organization, just waiting for you to come along and claim it. When you do, you can use it to le...
What's a Business Analyst To Do? What happened to the role of the business analyst on agile software projects? Extreme Programming, a pioneering agile methodology, talks a lot about the interactions ...
You know that feeling you get when a friend tells you about a great feature or shortcut you didn’t know existed in an app that you use all the time? Feels great, doesn’t it? That’s what I’m hoping to...
Active Listening You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. My advice to most people–regardless of profession–is to listen more than you speak. For a business analyst however, the art of listening ...
