Tool to auto-generate User Stories with minimal typing and even less repetition…
...auto-generating User Stories to allow direct importing into Jira and automatic linking to Epics. Downloadable template to get started. Ideal for stakeholder engagement when identifying features and to facilitate Dev & QA stakeholders' decomposition of features.
You can go FAR if you avoid the FOGS
“One of the most recent - and perhaps the most outwardly unsuitable - area where Agile principles and techniques are being applied is the area of Product Innovation. Kanban, Lean and JIT processes are ideally suited to predictable, repeatable processes like Manufacturing. Product innovation is anything but predictable or repea
The Complexities in our Digital Identity
In a recent Documentary on RTÉ TV (the Irish national broadcaster) about Annacarty Barracks and its central role in the Irish path to freedom & independence, Mick Dromm (at least, I think that was his name!), who was one of the primary Archaeologists on the Project, said: “As a nation, as a people, we are […]
Now that you’re ‘working from home’… behaviour and etiquette for Virtual Meetings…
This is an updated version (given the huge explosion in the numbers of people working from home in 2020 as a result of COVID19 / Coronavirus and the likelihood that this will accelerate the Work From Home transition) of a Blog Post published originally in 2015. Warning: this is a looonnnnggg post so please excercise […]
Agile: it’s not for the Fragile…
Over the last 10+ years as a Business Analyst, Product Owner & Product Manager in a wide variety of teams, environments, sectors & projects – and, indeed, as a Customer overseeing my own Product development (see flowdaq if you’re interested in that) – it has become clear that Agile philosophies, concept
Agile Outside the Development Team
Updated with link to download the Issue (free). I’m very pleased and proud to have an article commissioned for (90,000-readership) Better Software magazine. My article – ‘Agile Outside the Development Team‘ – is chosen as one of the four ‘featured’ articles and the magazine also includes
How to be a BA – become a Scientist.
How to be a BA – become a Scientist. The number of Blog posts, articles and discussions that ask or attempt to explain “How to be a BA” is a good indication that nobody really knows the ‘silver bullet’ answer. If you think you’ll find the perfect answer here…. don’t waste any more time reading […]
Tip for BAs: make a portable whiteboard
I’m often asked to recommend simple tools for aspiring BAs to use and I can’t think of anything more simple – or more useful – than pen & paper or, where available, a whiteboard. For those of you who like to work with pen & paper or with whiteboard & marker, here’s a simple tip: [&hellip
