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. Throughout the workshops, you first define the idea, design and build it, and finally validate it closely with users. BAs are usually comfortable with conducting the tests.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

Writing a book is a complex and at times challenging endeavour: it took me over two years to write and publish my latest book. As I had to commit a substantial amount of my time to the project (and my company’s money), I tried to reduce the risk of writing a book that nobody really wants and needs. Minimum Viable Features.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 4, 2023

Disaster restoration software helps provide necessary documents, videos, or other resources to either provide DIY training on facilitate live workshops. At Zuper, you can explore our field service management solutions for your disaster restoration workflows – book a demo today.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 18, 2023

This is a very famous name you’ll hear in the BA market, a book with more than 500 pages to cover each and every BA concept. I also started my preparation by reading this book independently, a sort of self-study approach. But after 1 week, looking at the length of the book, my consistency failed. But how that can be done?

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InfoQ Articles

JANUARY 19, 2021

In the book Kanban Compass, Justyna Pindel shares her experiences from applying training from the back of the room and systems thinking in her Kanban workshops. She adapted her training approach by connecting with attendees and providing them suitable exercises to maximize learning opportunities. By Ben Linders, Justyna Pindel.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Identifying and addressing the key risks in the product strategy is best done iteratively, as I explain in more detail in my book Strategize. A great way to engage the key stakeholders and development team members is to run a collaborative workshop, be it online or in the office. Final Thoughts.

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Juice Analytics

APRIL 6, 2021

With our book , resources and workshops, we’ve shared guidance about what it takes to become a data fluent organization. Matt Lerner in conjunction with Business of Software delivers online workshops that help you determine your “North Star Metric” and the set of key drivers that are bottlenecks to achieving that overall success.

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Passionate BA

JULY 3, 2023

In my humble opinion, it is a brief but helpful overview, more of a taste of a book, which is excellent. Plans for discovery workshops. The author suggests conducting workshops with diverse user groups to gather diverse perspectives and uncover user needs and preferences. Topics covered include: Understanding project discovery.

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Business Bullet

JUNE 14, 2020

Helen Winter speaking at the European Business Analysis conference 2019 in London on how to make workshops more engaging and interesting using design thinking techniques. . If you have found this useful then you might like my book – The Business Analysis Handbook – Techniques and Questions for better Business Outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

A great way to ensure that your vision is shared is to create it together with the stakeholders and dev team members in a collaborative workshop, be it online or onsite. Visioning Workshop Attendees. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product.

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Juice Analytics

JULY 10, 2021

Data stories can act almost like the old Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books. 8 Best Data Storytelling Workshops ? What about interactivity and data updating, which can change the conclusions of a data story? This is one of the things that differentiates a data story from traditional, static narratives. What makes a great data story?

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Juice Analytics

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Ask us about our new workshop to kick-start your data communication skills and plan a path forward toward a data-driven culture. It requires a lot of enabling factors including culture, convenience, confidence, and visible impact.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Consider sharing the input beforehand when you run a strategy workshop so that people can prepare for the meeting. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective. What’s the meeting about?

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Perceptual Edge

JULY 12, 2020

From time to time, people who worked in a specific domain asked if I would write a book or teach a course about data visualization for their domain in particular. Would it make sense for me to write a new version of my book Show Me the Numbers that is specific to the needs of education, healthcare, or marketing organizations?

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ElegantJ BI

AUGUST 10, 2018

A movie ticket booking website can group users into frequent ticket buyers, moderate ticket buyers and occasional ticket buyers, based on past movie ticket purchases. These tools are designed for business users with average skills and require no specialized knowledge of statistical analysis or support from IT or data scientists.

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ElegantJ BI

AUGUST 10, 2018

A movie ticket booking website can group users into frequent ticket buyers, moderate ticket buyers and occasional ticket buyers, based on past movie ticket purchases. These tools are designed for business users with average skills and require no specialized knowledge of statistical analysis or support from IT or data scientists.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 28, 2023

. — yours, Igor [link] BA Skills & Processes 1) A guide to becoming an expert facilitator by Obi Nwokedi As a business analyst, I’m generally responsible for leading requirements workshops to understand processes and problems, and to analyze the requirements needed to develop new systems, products, or processes within an organization.

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Bridging the Gap

MARCH 16, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about what it looks like to be a business analyst, you can sign up for our completely free workshop, Quick Start to Success, where you will: Get specific action steps to advance your career. Receive immediate access to the self-paced online workshop.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

A great way to engage the individuals is to invite them to a collaborative workshop, which may take place onsite or online. [4] To achieve this, you have two options, as I explain in more detail in my book Strategize : First, you can derive the roadmap goals directly from the needs and business goals by breaking them into subgoals.

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Juice Analytics

MAY 3, 2021

There are many options for learning, including this list of best data storytelling workshops and absorbing the lessons of masters from 20 amazing data storytelling examples. Smith is author of the best-selling book Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. Cost: Starts at $99. Cost: Free.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

A great way to co-develop the product strategy and roadmap—as well as to review and update the plans—is to bring people together through collaborative workshops. This is especially helpful when the group is new to collaborative decision-making and when the workshops take place online.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

. > Keep reading… 3) Conducting Effective Requirements Workshops: Using Joint Application Development (JAD) by Nelson N. One highly effective approach is the Requirements Workshop, often conducted through Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions. > Keep reading… 4) Why requirements elicitation is important by Nelson N.

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Agile Coach

JANUARY 16, 2020

I started running my Lean Change Agent workshop in 2014 and have never offered a certification. I was ordained as certified at the end of the class, funny story, we may or may not have certified the workshop hosts’ dog as a CSPO so for a brief point in time a dog, yes a dog , was listed as a CSPO. Lamest blog post title ever.

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Perceptual Edge

APRIL 9, 2019

I spend a great deal of time reading books. The new book, How Attention Works: Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction , by Stefan van der Stigchel, definitely qualifies as extraordinary. Until recently, I taught annual data visualization workshops in Utrecht for several years. Reading this book is a good start.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. It might be that he is overworked and short of time or that there is an ongoing conflict with one of the other stakeholders that makes it difficult for him to participate in the workshops.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Running a collaborative roadmapping workshop is a great way to engage everyone and create a shared product roadmap, as the following picture illustrates. The book is packed with practical advice to help you create an actionable product roadmap. This allows you to leverage their ideas and knowledge and creates strong buy-in.

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

We kickstarted the project with a workshop involving all the stakeholders. We used the workshop to refresh their memory of how these methods work. After the initial workshop we began the actual work. We’re constantly surrounded by articles, books and courses about the ‘perfect process’. Conclusion.

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 10, 2024

Foreword In recent years, I wrote several materials about API design and last year (2023) did a local workshops and online webinars titled “Requirements & API”. Original blog posts lacked some storytelling consistency, and workshops/webinars were for the Russian-speaking audience. That gives more clarity but might sound ambiguous.

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Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In addition to coaching leaders, teams and Product Owners, Anjali conducts workshops on a number of topics including leadership and design thinking. One day, my boss dropped a book on my desk, the agile book from Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle, the little black book. I saw myself in that book. I saw, how I showed up.

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. What my lessons have been after traveling the world and delivering over 50 of these workshops. The workshop developed over time by practicing what I preach.

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Modern Analyst

MARCH 9, 2025

Facilitation Skills The ability to facilitate requirements discussions and elicitation workshops is a vital BA capability. A BA has to speak clearly, as well, and to present information at the level of detail each target audience needs. Facilitation is the act of leading a group towards success. by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You manage the stakeholders, for example, by inviting them to roadmapping workshops and sprint review meetings or by having regular one-on-ones with them. Notes [1] The model in Figure 1 takes advantage of the strategy, discovery, and delivery distinction described in Marty Cagan’s book Inspired , 2 nd ed. Strategize , 2 nd ed.,

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can find more information about the product vision board above in my book Strategize and the article The Product Vision Board. The best way to ensure that your vision is inspiring and meaningful for the stakeholders and dev team members is to create it together with the individuals in a collaborative workshop.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You should therefore adopt a collaborative approach where you involve the key stakeholders and development team members in creating, reviewing, and updating the product roadmap, preferably in the form of collaborative workshops. 5 The Roadmap is Not Systematically Connected to the Strategy and Backlog. 7 The Roadmap is Speculative.

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

Arrange Workshops A Viz Games is designed to upskill everyone so its participants are all armed with the same foundational knowledge on data and Tableau or your analytics tool of choice. In the JDVF competition, we hosted a series of workshops.

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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. This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. Listen to this article: [link]. What the Scrum Master Should Do.

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