Written by Angela Wick Garay Successful BAs are the calm, center point of the project storm. They evaluate the people, roles, systems, and processes swirling around them. BAs find connections between the elements of the project storm. They make sure all of the moving pieces align. In order to maintain this alignment, BAs rely...
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Management
A Business Analyst’s Best Friends: The CIO
How to Ensure Your Business Judgments Are Fair
When we interpret the behavior of others, we tend to attribute it to their character or competence, rather than considering the impact of situational factors. By Francesca Gino Managers and business leaders regularly evaluate organizational members, as well as the products and services their company offers. These evaluations are often biased: They do not...
Five email clients to help ease you away from Outlook
Outlook is one of the most widely used email clients in the business world. But with more smaller-sized companies starting to migrate to other, cheaper, solutions a lot of users are finding email clients that handle the tasks, without the headaches (and cost) that often accompany Outlook. Email clients offer a variety of features;...
Filing taxes: It shouldn’t be so hard
IN 2010 a panel created by the White House estimated that American taxpayers spend 7.6 billion hours and some $140 billion a year keeping the IRS off their backs. According to the Washington Post over 80% of taxpayers use software or pay someone to file their taxes. The national taxpayer advocate, a sort-of in-house...
Agile or Waterfall? 8 Tips to Help You Decide
By Susanne Madsen If you are running a software project, one of the questions you are likely to come across is which development methodology to use. Some like to stick to a traditional waterfall approach whereas others are keen advocates of an agile methodology. In reality many projects end up somewhere in between; with...
Smart Organizations Sync Talent With Strategy
By Cyndee Miller, senior editor, PM Network For all the talk of an economic recovery, many organizations continue to obsess over headcount. But a smaller (and smarter) group is focusing on getting the right people on the right projects — positioning those people and the organization itself to grow. The payoff can be huge,...
How Working Together as a Team Diffuses Project Management Heat
Things heat up every day on our jobs as project managers. Misunderstandings arise, dates are missed, and sometimes tempers flare. What can a project manager do to cool things down? The following article provides insight into areas that generate heat and how you can bring things down to a reasonable temperature again. When a...
As BYOD Explodes, IT Managers Learn to Cope
Computerworld — Pity the poor IT manager trying to get his arms around the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement. Even the most cutting-edge tech leaders — those who are working to make mobile devices secure and productive corporate tools — are feeling overwhelmed by the frenetic pace of change in the marketplace. While Apple iOS devices...
Blasting Past Obstacles When Chasing Your Dreams
By Francisco Mejia Sometimes you just want to quit. When you’re working on a large goal there will definitely be times when you suffer from setbacks and inconveniences. Not only that, but you will even feel that you’re not going anywhere, that you’re simply not making any progress. It’s around this time that you...
Signs a client may not be ready for managed services
Takeaway: Warning bells should go off in your head if you spot any of these items indicating managed services are not a priority at a prospective client’s site. Most IT consultants should have migrated their business operations to emphasize managed services. Unfortunately, many clients still live in the much more stressful, inefficient, and disruptive break-fix...
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