Be Satisfied With What I Give You--It's Better Than What You Asked For - Part...
My Uncle Bill used to tell us that no matter what type of hotel or where it was located, no matter how many of the hotel staff he talked to in advance of their arrival, Aunt Roslyn would look at the...
View ArticleTop Tips for Effective Requirements Management
My colleague Beth Ouellette and I had a little fun at the Phoenix PMI Congress with our presentation of Top Tips for Effective Requirements Management collected through a survey of the 18,000 member...
View ArticlePMI Releases Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide - free...
Did you know that according to research PMI conducted in 2014 that only 64% of completed projects met their original goals and business intent? That 16% of projects in the last 12 months were...
View ArticleYou Don't have Requirements!
So you think you know all the answers? Well.... you don't! If you are running projects, the people with the answers are your clients.. They will define the scope of your project, and the detailed...
View ArticleThe Four Levels of Agile Requirements
Don’t you just love the word ‘Requirements’? It’s just so clear isn’t it – NOT! Have you ever heard your business customer say ‘I’ve already given you my requirements’ and the team then says ‘We...
View ArticleProject Managers Find New Rhythm at PMI® Global Congress' First Agile Open Jam
What happens with PMI conference attendees encounter a new way to interact about Agile? We found out when I hosted another first: an Agile Open Jam with global project managers. With the help of some...
View ArticleWhat's Hot and What's Not--Trends in Business Analysis Webinar Follow-up
This blog is in response to some great discussion and questions that arose during and after the webinar I gave on projectmanagement.com on March 4, 2015. Some of these topics included the role of the...
View ArticleActionable Agile Tools - a book review
This Blog is about requirements management, so a book I read recently about Agile tools seemed to apply since some of them are about managing the Product Backlog. "Actionable Agile Tools" is the name...
View ArticleAutomating requirements review using Natural Language Processing
Ever wonder if the requirements you are writing make sense? Do you wonder about what you could do to improve them? Make them more concise? More accurate? I ran across a company recently that has...
View ArticleNatural Language Processing to sharpen up your requirements
It's great to on the bleeding edge sometimes, isn't it? I was fortunate enough to be invited to meet with Jordan Kyriakidis, CEO of QRACorp in my home town of Halifax, Nova Scotia when he saw I was...
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