ElegantJ BI
AUGUST 30, 2018
Social BI Encourages Sharing, Learning and Data Popularity! Social Business Intelligence, AKA Social BI, may seem like a frivolous achievement, but it is far from frivolous! Consider what happens when people share and collaborate. And, if you expand the view of Social BI benefits, you will discover that business users who have access to a Social BI environment can also improve business readiness, agility and results.
Leading Agile
AUGUST 13, 2018
Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. (Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.) They have a plan for completing the items on the list. Except in cases when the totality of the work is completely understood in advance, contemporary practice involves rolling-wave planning or multi-horizon planning in some form, whereby teams pull a subset of items from the top of the list and w
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Roman Pichler
AUGUST 14, 2018
What Maturity Means. A product is mature if it has stopped growing: The benefits it creates no longer rise. Instead, they have started to stagnate. In terms of the product life cycle model, the product has left the growth stage and entered maturity, as the following picture shows. To find out if your product is mature, you should track its performance.
Business Analysis Excellence
AUGUST 29, 2018
What is Impact Mapping? Impact Mapping is used to align stakeholders with organizational goals and the creation of customer value. Impact maps align initiatives and delivery activities with overall organizational goals. Impact maps help all stakeholders stay focused on value creation (the why) instead of feature development (the what). Impact Mapping enhances the feedback loops […].
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Thinslices
AUGUST 31, 2018
When an investor believes your idea has great potential to go big, it’s human to confuse the relationship with a friendship. Truth be told, it’s not. Investors have faith in your startup’s concept, team, and solution. They want to believe your business can make them profitable. But if things go south, it usually means you won’t shake hands and remain best buds.
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ElegantJ BI
AUGUST 30, 2018
Social BI Encourages Sharing, Learning and Data Popularity! Social Business Intelligence, AKA Social BI, may seem like a frivolous achievement, but it is far from frivolous! Consider what happens when people share and collaborate. And, if you expand the view of Social BI benefits, you will discover that business users who have access to a Social BI environment can also improve business readiness, agility and results.
Leading Agile
AUGUST 22, 2018
Do you, or the teams you work with, feel pressure from stakeholders to say “yes” to everything they ask for? If so, you’re not alone. The Cycle of Distrust. There’s a problem with saying “yes” to everything. It tends to create a reinforcing loop that builds distrust in the organization. I often see advice from coaches that teams should learn to say “no” to stakeholders.
Userzoom
AUGUST 2, 2018
In which we discuss customer journeys and the many ways we can map them in order to make sense of our users’ experiences. In researching this article about creating different experience maps – mainly by sending OJ, our ace head of social, into the UX Slack channel and asking them what they think – we came across the following terms… Customer journey maps.
The Analyst Agency
AUGUST 2, 2018
Top 5 Cyber Security Tips to Protect Your BusinessBy Steven Czyrny Cyber security is more important than ever these days. You can’t just hope your business doesn’t get attacked, you need to take action. Read on to discover the top 5 cyber security tips to protect your business. 40% of cyber attacks in 2017 targeted businesses. […].
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Thinslices
AUGUST 31, 2018
Entrepreneurship is a mindset that demands both professional and personal abilities. Launching, executing, growing and scaling your startup is a mental exercise involving business strategy, networking, research, planning, marketing, and numerous other related activities. Managing time effectively often becomes a challenge when your daily schedule is fully booked with meetings and events.
The BA Doc
AUGUST 1, 2018
I have no problem admitting how much I love business analysis. In fact, I would call business analysis my passion. Over the years I have read a plethora of books and articles on business analysis and project management.
ElegantJ BI
AUGUST 30, 2018
Social BI Encourages Sharing, Learning and Data Popularity! Social Business Intelligence, AKA Social BI, may seem like a frivolous achievement, but it is far from frivolous! Consider what happens when people share and collaborate. And, if you expand the view of Social BI benefits, you will discover that business users who have access to a Social BI environment can also improve business readiness, agility and results.
Leading Agile
AUGUST 20, 2018
Okay. Sounds good. What are “all the things,” by the way? Well, kind of a lot of things, actually. Maybe one or two more than most people think about when they first get inspired to automate their pipeline. Automate why? There is value to an organization in having the capability to deliver continuously even if customers are not able to consume change frequently.
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Business Analysis Excellence
AUGUST 27, 2018
Agile Business Analysis Technique: Behaviour Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is used to increase value, decrease waste, and increase communication between stakeholders and delivery teams by focusing on the intended customer behaviour for the solution to satisfy customer needs. Another way to describe what Behaviour Driven Development is: that it is a software development […].
Juice Analytics
AUGUST 27, 2018
The folks in the front of the room stared with a forced intensity at (what must have been) the 23rd straight slide showing data about website performance. Their glazed eyes would have been entirely evident if the speaker wasn’t so intently focused on pointing out the change in bounce rate between August and July. In the back of the room, Brian wasn’t able to summon the energy to care.
Thinslices
AUGUST 31, 2018
Congrats on your brilliant business idea. You’ve started a great company and you’re enjoying some fame. Good for you! To feel complete, all you need now is some cash to transform a vision into a full-blown business. Crafting a killer pitch deck and preparing the most engaging presentation is the best bet you can make to secure finance and skyrocket your startup.
The Analyst Agency
AUGUST 22, 2018
Top 5 Benefits of IT Outsourcing for Your CompanyBy Steven Czyrny Are you in need of IT services but don’t want to invest in hiring someone full-time? Here are the top 5 benefits of IT outsourcing for your company. Are you thinking of IT outsourcing to a third party? The global market for outsourcing is huge, and […]. The post Top 5 Benefits of IT Outsourcing for Your Company appeared first on The Analyst Agency.
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ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu
ElegantJ BI
AUGUST 29, 2018
Does Natural Language Processing Work with Advanced Analytics? Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a trend that has taken over technology. Vendors are applying this technique to all types of searching and Advanced Analytics is no exception. Nearly every enterprise is working on data democratization and wants to transform its business users into Citizen Data Scientists with easy-to-use tools that offer sophisticated analytical techniques and simple access and analysis – no matter the skill
Leading Agile
AUGUST 15, 2018
Lately I’ve been thinking about inconsistencies or ironies in things developers say. I realize that’s pretty unusual for me, and you’re probably surprised that I would write about irony, or even recognize it when I see it. I can’t explain it. It’s just one of those things, you know. In any case, I’m thinking about irony in the sense of a definition I found via Google: “a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance
The BA Doc
AUGUST 15, 2018
Becoming a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) has been one of the most rewarding and challenging endeavors for me as a business analyst. The purpose of this article is to help other business analysts pass th.
Agile Velocity
AUGUST 8, 2018
Summary. Why Organizational Agility is Necessary. The current rate of disruption and the increasing amount of global competition all contribute to what we now call a “VUCA” world: V olatile – Speed, magnitude, turbulence, and dynamics of change. U ncertain – Unclear about the present and hard to predict the future. C omplex – Multiple interdependencies amongst a globally interconnected world.
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Thinslices
AUGUST 31, 2018
[Editor’s note: this article was initially published in August 2018 and updated in August 2020] As an entrepreneur and startup founder, you have faith in your new business. You believe that investing time and effort into developing your idea, going to meetings, putting together a team, pitching to investors, and making a lot of sacrifices will pay off and your business will be successful.
Domo
AUGUST 2, 2018
Back in 2013, Gary Corkin, founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC, famously said that companies were drowning in data, but starving for insights. Today, the problem is still very much alive and kicking, especially for marketers. If anything, it might be getting worse. There has been an explosion of measurable data, but marketing departments are struggling to gain true insights.
ElegantJ BI
AUGUST 29, 2018
Does Natural Language Processing Work with Advanced Analytics? Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a trend that has taken over technology. Vendors are applying this technique to all types of searching and Advanced Analytics is no exception. Nearly every enterprise is working on data democratization and wants to transform its business users into Citizen Data Scientists with easy-to-use tools that offer sophisticated analytical techniques and simple access and analysis – no matter the skill
Leading Agile
AUGUST 29, 2018
In part 1 of this series , I outlined the reasons for attempting to build a minimal development environment and set a goal for this project. I also summarized my experiences with trying to set up such an environment using a variety of small-size Linux distros. In this segment, I share the results of building out the environment on Debian Linux with the NeoVim editor as the primary development tool.
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This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.
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