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Category Archives: Business Analysis
The Sichuan Restaurant
I am in Bangalore for an agile training for a client. I’m staying near our office in Koramangala so I went to this chinese restaurant called “Sichuan” near Raheja Residency for dinner. First of all let me say that its … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Business Analysis, General, Organizations, Travel
Tagged business, Business Analysis, competition, strategy
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The Project Owner
I recently paired on an Agile Fundamentals training for an organization. Its a two day course in agile philosophy, principles and basic practices offered by ThoughtWorks Studios. Its more of an awareness programme than training that you can put to … Continue reading
Posted in agile, Business Analysis, Organizations
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When in a inception…
Everyone is an analyst Don’t get bound by role boundaries. Everyone needs to understand the system. Talk to the clients, ask questions, draw diagrams, make suggestions, understand problems and solve them. Make sure everyone facilitates sessions at least once Especially … Continue reading
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Livescribe Pulse Smartpen
Ooooh! Ooooooh! I love it!! This is the most awesomest thing I have bought this year. There are enough reviews online for me not to write one of my own. But I’ll mention the most useful features here: Captures everything … Continue reading
Posted in Business Analysis, General, Hacks, Reviews
Tagged gadgets, livescribe, review, smartpen, technology
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Number Lust
I am an amateur photographer while I am not not hacking project teams and building custom software at ThoughtWorks. Photographers are known to have bouts of lens lust* time and again, especially at the beginning. I realize that some managers … Continue reading
Posted in agile, Business Analysis, Software Theory
Tagged agile, lean, processes, project management, reporting
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Onsite Business Analyst
This has come up in various discussions recently and I want to put down my thoughts about the role and responsibilities. For a ThoughtWorks team in India (or China) most of the work is offshore agile development. Clients are usually … Continue reading
Posted in Business Analysis, Software Theory
Tagged agile, Business Analysis, communication, distributed agile, offshore, onsite
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Metrics
I have recently come out of a consulting assignment which has given me loads of time to read and think about processes, improvements and effectiveness. (People who follow me on google reader must have noticed). It also had me thinking … Continue reading
Posted in agile, Business Analysis, Software Theory
Tagged agile, effectiveness, hard numbers, metrics, new to agile, percentages, proportions, ratios
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Testing considered wasteful??
@silvercatalyst posted on twitter a few days back that one of the trainees in his session counted testing as waste. I retweeted with a #funny but @silvercatalyst said he actually agreed with it. So we twiscussed it for a while. … Continue reading
Back to the Basics – 1 – The problem
Reading Martin’s ConversationalStories renewed my confidence in this draft post from about an year ago. I just couldn’t put it in the right words and gave up on it. I keep talking about deterministic universes over randomness and stuff like … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, collaboration, deterministic universe, randonmess
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