Vitality Chicago

JUNE 28, 2022

In 2021, I first published my list of the best agile books, organized by role. I am a big fan of book learning and I am happy that my recommendations are serving a need. This includes some newly published books as well as some I finally read. It isn’t easy to limit the list to just 5 best agile books! That is OK.

Agile 67

Agile Project Management Product Management Product Management 67

Productside

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In this edition of our Women in Product Management Series , I had the pleasure of speaking with Michelle Felice-Steele , Vice President of Product Management at Experian Consumer Services. From Journalism to Product Management: Michelles Career Journey Nicole: Michelle, welcome! Lets dive right in.

Product Management 62

Product Management Product Management Innovation Project Management 62

Passionate BA

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with a bunch of seasoned business analysts about education, books, resources to learn from, etc. Author of numerous books, a software development consultant, speaker, trainer, songwriter, and just a great person! Renowned book author. Learning from Karl is always a pleasure.

Business Analysis 147

Business Analysis Business Analysis Cybersecurity Agile 147

Insight Software

MAY 14, 2021

Book Credits : 2. Kimberling is an expert in organizational change management, project management, implementation, and evaluations of ERP systems. His extensive experience includes ERP software selection, organizational change management, implementation, project management, and benefits realization.

Supply Chain 97

Supply Chain Innovation Project Management Change Management 97

Monday

JULY 22, 2021

On the same page (in the same book). All of the above are important critical to ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and are (ideally) successful. Maintaining an active, yet flexible, project management plan. Being flexible: No project ever goes 100% as planned. Working as one team. Efficiency.

Project Management 52

Project Management Monitoring Planning Documentation 52

Monday

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Project management is critical because it provides the leadership, motivation, and roadblock-removals that help teams introduce new products or services, grow revenue, and meet other company goals. According to a study by the Project Management Institute: In 2020, 11.4%

Project Management 52

Project Management Documentation Planning Monitoring 52

Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This time, we’ve got a collection of stories about business analysis, data, agile, and product and project management. For those interested in AI and data, there is a list of 5 recommended books to get you started with AI, as well as an opinion on how generative AI is going to change requirements development. AI Pitfalls?

Enterprise Architecture 130

Enterprise Architecture Requirements Gathering Business Analysis Business Analysis 130

Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

In the book Agile Project Management with Scrum , the meeting is changed to allow product owners to contribute (see pp. Over the years, the definition of the meeting has changed. 135 and 141).

Product Management 70

Product Management Product Management Agile Project Management 70

Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Mondoa Collaboration is at the heart of successful project management, especially when it comes to eliciting well-defined requirements. We will delve into the importance of requirements elicitation, its key principles, and how it contributes to delivering successful products. >

Enterprise Architecture 130

Enterprise Architecture Artificial Intelligence Logistics Process Modelling 130

Analysts Corner

AUGUST 8, 2023

We’ve got some insights on using SWOT and identifying business rules, a guide to assess your enterprise architecture practice maturity, an interview with Karl Wiegers as recorded by Fabricio Laguna; and a few career stories: how do you start a new project as a BA? Can a BA transition to Product Management? Enjoy reading.

Enterprise Architecture 130

Enterprise Architecture UML Artificial Intelligence E-Commerce 130

Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

by Yulia Kosarenko All images by the author This article delves into the fundamental difference between a system and a solution in the context of business analysis and product management. Internal Product Management is Hard. At the same time, a solution is a specific answer to a problem within that system.

Business Analysis 130

Business Analysis Business Analysis Backlog Management Documentation 130

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While the role is discussed in many books and articles, I find that it is still not always correctly understood. What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. You are more prone to make mistakes and choose wrong product decisions.

Agile 135

Agile Backlog Management Project Management Product Management 135

Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Effective stakeholder management starts by embracing the right attitude: See the stakeholders as equal partners; take an interest in their perspective, ideas, concerns, and underlying needs; build trustful connections with the individuals; and encourage the stakeholders to work together. Increase your product management expertise.

Stakeholder Management 128

Stakeholder Management Product Management Product Management Finance 128

Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Plus as a bonus some curated lists of books recommended for product managers, BAs, and architects. You’ve been working at your new job for almost a month now, and you’re still sitting at your desk wondering, “What should I do?” > Keep reading… 7) Project Manager vs Business Analyst — a role mix-up or an identity crisis!

Artificial Intelligence 130

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Architecture Business Analysis Business Analysis 130

Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

Frameworks like Dual Track Agile from Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired” influenced organizations to split their efforts into product discovery and delivery. The Discovery track is all about quickly generating validated product backlog items, and the Delivery track is all about generating releasable software.

Business Analysis 130

Business Analysis Business Analysis Agile Vision 130

Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

Revenue-generating products typically become profitable when they have achieved product-market fit and start to grow. This may be months, and in some cases, years after the initial development project was finished. If you manage a feature or component, then that’s perfectly fine. Features and Components.

Digital 88

Digital E-Commerce User Experience Product Management 88

Cprime

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In other words, the traditional funding model based around project management is not agile. As a result, the final output of a project may fail to deliver value to the customer simply because the customer no longer wants or needs what looked so promising when the plan was made and the project was funded.

Agile 98

Agile Portfolio Management Finance Planning 98

Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And I kind of took on the mantle of product, project management. One day, my boss dropped a book on my desk, the agile book from Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle, the little black book. Anjali: So I actually had not heard the term agile coach until 2013 and it was picking up Lisa Adkins’ book.

Agile 97

Agile Design Thinking Vision Product Management 97

Bridging the Gap

MARCH 9, 2023

The second that I want to highlight is a project manager. So many project managers that are executing at a rather high level are doing business analysis work. As your Project Manager, often you might be doing business analysis. I was Systems Analyst, and then I was a Manager of Business Analysis.

Skillset 98

Skillset Business Analysis Business Analysis Project Management 98

Vitality Chicago

APRIL 30, 2021

Patty McCord was the Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and her book Powerful, Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility describes the strategic partnership she shared with CEO Reed Hasting through the growth years of Netflix. This view of Human Resources is limiting and not very accurate.

Agile 98

Agile IBM cost IBM Support IBM Maintenance 98

Agilemania

JANUARY 12, 2022

2011 marked a new beginning in the era of large-scale software project management. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for attaining business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps to manage large scale software development. . But what is SAFe? .

Agile 98

Agile Project Management Planning Vision 98

Data Pine

MARCH 31, 2022

After acquiring 3 to 5 years of experience, you can specialize in a specific technology or industry and work as an analyst, IT expert, or even go to the management side by working as a BI project manager. Even if you are more of a front-end BI professional, you’ll need to know SQL and how to use it. BI engineer.

Business Intelligence 95

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Data Visualization Visualization 95

Business Analysts

AUGUST 4, 2021

In addition, the customers of Business Analysis also vary including Product Managers & Owners, Developers, Testers, Solution Architects, all the way through to CIOs, CEO, and Company Directors. When your car needs a service, you book it in, arrive, hand over the keys, return later that day, pay and drive home.

Business Analysis 52

Business Analysis Business Analysis Planning Project Management 52

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO. It might be like a design pattern, like if you read a design patterns book in code, right, and I’m not a coder because I can’t write a bunch of stuff off.

Business Architecture 143

Business Architecture Agile Project Management Government 143

EBG Consulting

JULY 3, 2019

They consider the product’s underlying technologies, components, and tools and call a logical grouping of them a “product.” This approach defines the product from an engineering perspective and not from a customer perspective. Projects come and go while successful products live a long and healthy life.

Product Management 61

Product Management Product Management Backlog Management Customer Experience 61

Bridging the Gap

APRIL 27, 2023

You may be a business analyst while also taking on other roles like becoming a project manager, tester, product manager, or even a developer. You may be a business analyst, but then you’re taking on other roles like project manager, tester, product manager, or even a software developer.

Project Management 52

Project Management Skillset Business Analysis Business Analysis 52

Monday

DECEMBER 27, 2020

In this article, we’ll do a deep dive into tasks, explain how they serve as the building blocks of projects, cover efficient approaches to managing and distributing tasks, and more. What is a task in a project? It’s a necessary step on the road toward project completion. What size should a project task be?

Project Management 52

Project Management Agile Planning Digital 52

Monday

DECEMBER 27, 2020

In this article, we’ll do a deep dive into tasks, show you the best ways to break down larger projects into them, cover efficient approaches to manage and distribute tasks, and more. What is a task in a project? In project management, a task is a work item or activity with a specific purpose related to the larger goal.

Project Management 52

Project Management Agile Planning Digital 52

Bridging the Gap

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you’re interested in learning more about business architecture, be sure to check out Whynde Kuehn’s new book Strategy to Reality: Making the Impossible Possible for Business Architects, Change Makers and Strategy Execution Leaders by visiting [link]. This is a relatively new book. I wrote the book. WHYNDE KUEHN: Absolutely.

Business Architecture 52

Business Architecture Digital Transformation Portfolio Management Vision 52

Marutitech

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Product Backlog grooming (also known as backlog refinement) is a recurring event or meeting where backlog items are reviewed and re-prioritized by product managers, product owners, and the rest of the team. Manages Backlog Mess. Typically, the product owner or product manager assists backlog refinement sessions.

Agile 52

Agile Product Management Product Management Planning 52

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

John Boddie’s book, Crunch Mode: Building Effective Systems on a Tight Schedule , provides a recipe for doing this on purpose. As the Product Owner role is often poorly understood, the competition quickly takes the form of political infighting. In reality, one product may be supported by several teams.

Agile 116

Agile Process Modelling Planning Visualization 116

Word of Digits

APRIL 1, 2021

Sharda | “We are a UX researchers, designers, product managers, project leaders and product owners tribe. Kind of projects & solutions consultants work on. – Internal projects: book club, HR process. Are you looking for a job as a UX Designer , Product Owner , Digital Project Manager ?

Digital 52

Digital E-Commerce Vision Banking 52

Capiro

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Rummler and Ramias elegantly demonstrate all of the above in their book, ‘White Space Revisited' , a must read for business analysts. To manage and coordinate their activities, organisations create business processes. This typically means creating a programme or project. Define the scope of the project or programme.

Business Analysis 52

Business Analysis Business Analysis Enterprise Architecture Artificial Intelligence 52

Monday

JULY 1, 2021

Michael Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy and wrote about value chain analysis in his book Competitive Advantage. monday.com offers dozens of integrations , including CRM, marketing, software development, and project management. Get started. Getting even more value with the flexibility of monday.com.

Logistics 52

Logistics Supply Chain Human Resource Management Procurement 52

Business Bullet

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

It was a small company so I also dabbled in other areas such as testing, pre-sales and project management before eventually progressing to become a Business Consultant/Architect, where I took a more holistic view of the problems the company was trying to solve rather than focusing on specific IT projects. .

Visualization 52

Visualization Business Analysis Business Analysis Digital 52

Leading Agile

JUNE 12, 2024

I kind of grew up in project management and I grew up in project management and really, really complex systems. And so when I first started getting my exposure to Agile from the project management world, all the literature I was reading back in 2005 was about how do you form small cross-functional teams?

Agile 62

Agile Government Project Management Planning 62

Bridging the Gap

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the back of my mind, while this was all going on, I’ve always come across Bridging the Gap and I’ve always seen Laura post on LinkedIn and I’ve always been interested with her posts and articles and even the book, her first book, or I think it was one of her first books. What is a project manager?

Business Analysis 52

Business Analysis Business Analysis Process Analysis Documentation 52