This is really great, and something that’s been a long time coming. On behalf of my partners at Seven Sigma, I’m announcing the formation of the SamePage Alliance. A strategic partnership with Seven Sigma and 21Apps, founded by Andrew Woodward, …
I’m in an airport (again), typing this on my way back from my latest trip to New Zealand – a country I am loving more and more each time I go there. (Anywhere that I can go that uses the …
As you may have noticed, this blog has been a bit of a dead zone lately. There are several very good reasons for this – one being that a lot of my creative energy has been going into co-writing a …
Vulgarity warning. Its the silly season, I am winding down and being more low-brow than usual with this post There is this wonderful way to look at the world, through a lens of something called “Complex adaptive systems”. Unfortunately with …
The problem with sales guys… (a peek into complex adaptive systems) Read more »
…and we’re back! Well… that was a long commercial break wasn’t it 🙂 In case you missed part 1 of our version of the show “deal or no deal”, you missed the big cliff-hanger and you really should read part …
A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Conclusion Read more »
Okay I’ll admit it, I used to really suck as a time and effort estimator. I happen to have a business partner who is much better at it than me (hey Peter), and every time I sought a second opinion …
A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Part 1 Read more »
Three weeks ago my plasma TV broke, freeing the family from the magic spell of hi-def television. My family took the loss in different ways. My four year old was devastated at the lack of Nintendo Wii, and constantly whined …
Hi there and welcome to part 3 of my series on the practice of Dialogue Mapping in the real-world. To recap, in part 1, I provided a brief overview of Dialogue Mapping and in part 2, I described a common …
Hi I attended and spoke at the Perth Business Analyst World Conference this week and really enjoyed it. This was a bit of a departure from the SharePoint events that I normally frequent, and I really didn’t know what to …
Am I a Business Analyst? What about those calling themselves BAs? Read more »
Hi there. Welcome to part 2 of a series of articles on the craft of Dialogue Mapping – something that forms a significant chunk of my SharePoint and non SharePoint work. In the “One best practice” series of articles, I …