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mschedlb

  1. "Professionals prepare, amateurs just show up." BAs need to be more professional...
  2. Speaking about Solution Assessment at IIBA Boston meeting tonight; stop by if you are in the area bit.ly/HEMxU8
  3. Why do so few BAs ask: "How would you measure success?" and "How do we know if the project was successful?"
  4. Coffee Shop Kanban: Is your dev team a Starbucks or a Costa? zite.to/zng5na via @zite. Good analogy and metaphor #agile #kanban
  5. Succeeding with Agile zite.to/xlahEJ via @zite. Finally some data points that executives can understand. #agile
  6. Aino Corry on Agile Retrospectives zite.to/yBvyXZ via @zite
  7. Succeeding with Agile zite.to/xlahEJ via @zite. This is indeed good news... #agile #baot #pm
  8. Meetings are no longer there to coordinate activity, now they replace actual work in many (dysfunctional) organizations. We need to change!
  9. Presenters (and professors ;) should be a lot SMARTer... cathris.com/blog/?p=107
  10. "The problem with procrastination is that the longer-term cost of remedial action skyrockets." (Dr. Woody Brock in American Gridlock)
  11. love my #evernote; great for recording meetings with voice, hand written notes, camera of whiteboards
  12. Hmm... should a BA know SQL? DM your thoughts #BA
  13. requirements sign-offs r risk control strategies, not some burden BAs love to impose on stakeholders #baot
  14. New blog on analyzing stakeholders. cathris.com/blog/?p=103
  15. The Art of Business Process Modeling: The Business Analyst's Guide to UML and BPMN is now available as a Kindle Book. amazon.com/Art-Business-P…
  16. I think I finally found a combination of tech gear that works: iPad, #Evernote, #LiveScribe, Asus Eee Slate. New blog: cathris.com/blog/2012/01/1…
  17. Tip for Getting More Organized: Don't zite.to/xCFm1K via @zite Can we learn from this as BAs structure requirements more and more?
  18. $50 fee on being a $89 balance even when auto payment is set up (but did not work). #wellsfargo is terrible; closed my CC account
  19. gotta give a shoutout to the folks at #Evernote; GREAT tool; keeps my notes synched b/w my Mac, iDevices, ChromeBook, and web
  20. just got charged $200 for canceling a flight booked with points on #jetBlue -- how's that for kick in the teeth