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Analyst Catalyst Blog
AUGUST 11, 2020
Analyst Catalyst Blog
AUGUST 11, 2020
Roman Pichler
AUGUST 11, 2020
A Brief Guide to this Article. This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily.
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Data Pine
AUGUST 12, 2020
In your daily business, many different aspects and ‘activities’ are constantly changing – sales trends and volume, marketing performance metrics, warehouse operational shifts, or inventory management changes. All these little alterations in your business activities are impacting the global well-being of your company, your warehouse, your restaurant, or even your healthcare facility.
Leading Agile
AUGUST 13, 2020
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week in SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Managing Consultant Yaton Bowens joins Dave to talk about the role that trust plays in Agile Transformation. Building on Mike Cottmeyers’ Trust vs. Trustworthiness webinar, Yaton and Dave dig into some of the trust gaps that management and the Development Teams have to cross for an Agile Transformation to take root in an org
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Analyst Catalyst Blog
AUGUST 13, 2020
Business Analysis Digest brings together the best content for BA professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Phocas
AUGUST 13, 2020
An interactive dashboard allows you to drill down and filter information so data can be viewed from different perspectives or in more detail. With a condensed and clear presentation of the business figures, dashboards enable data-driven company decisions. People don’t need to analyze the whole data set to tell them what's the matter - the headline information is there.
Agile Connection
AUGUST 14, 2020
A good leader keeps everything in order. In this fast-paced era where agile methodologies have become a more often used framework, a good Scrum Master is what is needed. But what makes a good Scrum Master? .
Analyst Catalyst Blog
AUGUST 13, 2020
Juice Analytics
AUGUST 13, 2020
This weekend I went down a rabbit hole with my 9 year-old daughter. Almost literally. She’s been dying to adopt a bunny, and I was able to (temporarily) redirected that energy into building a Juicebox bunny adoption data story. The project was a fun father-daughter learning experience that, upon reflection, was chocked full of lessons for data translators of any age.
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Phocas
AUGUST 11, 2020
Data means many things to different people. How does data make you feel? Does it keep you up at night because it’s not solving problems but sparking more questions. Or do you prefer to put data in the too hard basket because you believe the cost of storing, securing, analyzing and sharing it outways the business benefit. Perhaps you feel completely in control of your data and turn to it for every decision.
Thinslices
AUGUST 10, 2020
Predicting an outcome in advance is a difficult task for almost any activity, let alone for one that has never been done before. Since no 2 platforms are ever identical, each new software system that we build is unique.
Analyst Catalyst Blog
AUGUST 11, 2020
Agile Velocity
AUGUST 12, 2020
The issue. Conflict. . It makes me nervous just thinking about conflict in the workplace. It brings to the surface old insecurities, hurt feelings, and power struggles. Through my education there was a constant mantra–No one likes a pot stirrer, don’t rock the boat, grin and bear it –here are a million different phrases, but they all boil down to basic conflict avoidance.
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Phocas
AUGUST 14, 2020
As companies continue to use their systems and technology to achieve a competitive advantage and adapt to change, Business Intelligence (BI) is a digital transformation tool people are curious about. Modern BI is attractive because it has a low barrier to entry and companies can implement the software quickly. So how is business intelligence used? And who uses it?
Stickyminds
AUGUST 13, 2020
In order to understand a tester's value, we need to look at the role and understand the impact of the changing development process on this role.
Data Pine
AUGUST 14, 2020
Companies, organizations, enterprises, large, or small businesses – no matter in which category you belong to, you need to pay close attention to your customers. A customer retention dashboard and metrics depicted in a neat visual will help you in monitoring, analyzing, and managing multiple customer-centric points and how they echo in your business.
Modern Analyst
AUGUST 9, 2020
It is strange how something that is supposed to be simple is actually so complex. Something that is supposed to be a matter of linear career progression can actually end up in a state of a continuous loop, with no way of terminating such a loop. A point of stagnation and frustration. This is a quandary facing many intermediate business analysts. They do not know how to shift gears and move one notch up and be senior business analysts - who play a strategic role in helping their business stakehol
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Phocas
AUGUST 9, 2020
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Training ByteSize
AUGUST 14, 2020
An introduction to the APM PMQ. The Association for Project Management , Project Management Qualification (APM PMQ), is a project management qualification designed and developed to provide candidates with a conceptual understanding of project management. The course is knowledge based and designed to enable candidates to feel comfortable involving themselves in projects of all sizes across a breadth of industries.
CMCrossroads
AUGUST 14, 2020
A good leader keeps everything in order. In this fast-paced era where agile methodologies have become a more often used framework, a good Scrum Master is what is needed. But what makes a good Scrum Master? .
Marutitech
AUGUST 14, 2020
[avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="27"]. The term ‘quality analysis’ is not new to us. Software product testing has always been a crucial part of the product development life cycle. But even with its highlighted importance, the discipline of QA in product development is often pushed to the backseat as other aspects cloud the mind of the team. Regardless, it is impossible to ignore the importance of quality analysis.
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Business Analyst Mentor
AUGUST 14, 2020
Good open communications is one of the skillsets required of a business analyst. With good open communications, it is possible to bring stakeholders to a common understanding of the business.
GlowTouch
AUGUST 13, 2020
Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail The Positive Effect of Impact Sourcing on Women. Impact sourcing is a business strategy that not only helps companies to grow but also provides stable employment to disadvantaged areas, populations, and demographics. With much loftier aims than simple offshore outsourcing, impact outsourcing can have a profound effect on individuals, business organizations, and even entire economies.
Word of Digits
AUGUST 12, 2020
During our several mission at World of Digits, we have noticed that the experts in charge of building on- and offline solutions are not always eager to communicate about the whole potential of their projects. In some ways, they are against communicating about their projects if there are not complete enough. Well, that can make sense. Don’t you think?
My Agile Partner
AUGUST 11, 2020
Let’s look at the less popular retrospective but equally interesting: Like in the movies. This kind of retrospectives makes it possible to see the retrospectives from differently and to propose alternatives that do not fall into monotony. Feel free to read our other retrospectives on this dedicated page: Our retrospectives. Required material for Like in the movies.
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