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Preparing for a stakeholder interview part three – using “FOC”
I have just published a couple of articles on preparing for an interview. The first was on clarifying the goal for the interview and the second was on using an approach I called GRIFT to create a more robust structure. The final stage of preparing for an interview is to come up with an agenda and…
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BA’s need to learn question tennis before they end up as dead as Rosencrantz and Gildernstern
One of my favourite plays is “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”. It is the story of two confused people who are friends (?) with Hamlet (and minor characters his story). Question tennis One of the best scenes in the play is when the two characters play a game of “question tennis”. It is worth watching…
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Preparing for a stakeholder interview part two – using the GRIFT model
The goal of your interview is the single most important thing to know before the interview, but it is also useful to know a bit more about what you are hoping to achieve before you start the interview. So that is where I use the powerful “GRIFT” model to do my preparations. Actually it is…
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Preparing for a stakeholder interview part one – setting a clear goal
You might be surprised to find out that people often turn up to interview a stakeholder with little or no preparation. You would probably not be surprised to find out though, that when the interviewer is poorly prepared, the interview results in a conversation without a real resolution and the interviewer has missed an opportunity…
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To be customer focused, shouldn’t we also be problem focused?
I have at times been accused of being too intellectually pure – apparently I can have a habit of analysing a problem when all that is needed is to get moving with a solution. It may be true because I love to understand puzzles and problems. Perhaps it is true because I do enjoy playing…
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Presentation for ACS Young IT SIG
A surprisingly short article for someone as long-winded as me. I am presenting to the IT people of the future on what agile is (and is not). Here is their rather long link to the presentation: http://www.acs.org.au/nsw/index.cfm?action=event&area=9001&temID=eventdetails&eveID=30229661985484 Come along if you are local and part of the group (or can sneak in).
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A weekend course on the principles of agile for Sydney based project managers
Just a quick update on a one day course I will be running in July (actually Saturday 21 july 2012). It is designed for experienced project managers and other project leaders who understand the fundamentals of project management and I am running it as part of the ongoing education program that the Sydney chapter of…
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What if people thought meetings were actually work?
Every retrospective I do on every project seems to include the conclusion that “we need less meetings, less emails and more communication”. In fact SCRUM and agile approaches even try to define the bare minimum number of meetings that are needed and only have them (Actually one of my friends claims that they have removed all…
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A general guide to agile practices (actually a link to one)
I don’t normally publish links on this blog since I prefer to add my own views or approaches. But there is not much I can add to this one. People sometimes ask me for links to some of the material they see, either in course material or when I go wild and draw random things…
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Regression testing days 3 to 7
This article is part of a series on making regression testing useful rather than painful. The most recent article was (as you would guess from the title to this one) about day 2 of our regression testing adventure. So far we have been looking at how to do some testing, and then do some basic…
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