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Strategic Leadership and Change Management
- 10 Strategies for Effective Change Leadership
- Navigating Culture Shifts in Organisational Change
- Scenario Planning for Strategic Resilience
- Guide to SWOT Analysis and Strategic Decision Making
- Future-Proofing Your Business with a Proactive Target Operating Model
- A collaborative pre-project approach for finding the route cause of the problem
- Audience Analysis – A technique to help with Business Change
Business Management and Methodologies
- Considerations for companies wanting to move to agile and pitfalls to avoid? [Video]
- Debunking the Myth of Agility without Planning
- Writing an RFP – common mistakes and how to avoid them [Video]
- Why should a top down approach to requirements gathering be used?
- The hierarchy of requirements and how it impacts requirements gathering?
Programme and Project Execution
- Designing a Comprehensive Target Operating Model (TOM)
- How to write a Business Case
- Best Practices for Request for Proposal (RFP) Processes [Video]
- A collaborative pre-project approach for finding the route cause of the problem
- Providing a methodology and tool to transfer business knowledge
- Business model Canvas – Identifying a strategic plan and transformation initiatives
- How to improve decision making by regular review of the business case
- How to engage stakeholders effectively
- Are Agile Metrics the Missing Link to Project Success?
Stakeholder and Communication Management
- Techniques and approaches for handling conflicting stakeholders
- How to engage stakeholders effectively
- How to ensure you get what you want out of a meeting
- Improve communication with stakeholders using NLP
- 4 Steps to writing an options paper
- Making workshops more engaging and interesting using design thinking techniques [Video]
- Techniques and approaches for handling conflicting stakeholders
- Making Workshops More Engaging and Interesting Using Design Thinking – H Winter, BA Conf Europe 19 [Video]
- When getting stakeholders to read your documentation is like pulling teeth and what to do about it using 7 techniques
- Are your stakeholders using different words when describing data to mean the same thing?
- Tips for obtaining sign off of documentation
- How to engage stakeholders effectively
- Building Strong Relationships and Effective Meetings in the Era of Remote Working
- Business Analyst and Project Manager collaboration
Enhancing Programme Management Capabilities
- Tips for getting a project back on track or starting one safely [Video]
- Unlocking Business Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Transformation for Software Development
Business Management and Methodologies
- The benefits of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Implementing an agile approach – steps towards agility
- 5 Lessons learnt from Agile and how to apply whether using agile or another methodology
- How to identify the most appropriate methodology for a project
- Planning a Business Analyst Approach
- Interview with Andy Barnett (UML expert)
- Webinar – Best practice guidelines and templates for business cases [Video]
- Adapting the requirements gathering process for Commercial off the shelf packages (COTS)
- Unleashing the Power of Visual Thinking – Interview with Grant Wright
- 5 Recommended Tools for Running Virtual Workshops
- Role of the Business Analyst in Agile
Choosing and Implementing approaches
- Using a use case model for estimating and planning
- Check lists for business analysts when new to a project
- When a project is estimated to take 12 months to deliver and it is needed in 3
- A technique for identifying project scope
- Understanding the problems, opportunities and its importance when initiating change projects
Advanced Business Analysis Integration
- The value of business analysis to firms
- Business analysis involvement through the project lifecycle
- 10 reasons for using Business Analysts at the early stages of a project or pre-project
- How to Build a strong Business Analysis Team
- Developing an in-house Business Analysis Capability
- How I became a Business Analyst [Video]
- Are you a Business Analyst? [Video]
- A quick guide to the main roles in Business Analysis
- Tips for getting on the career path as a Business Analyst
- A guide to self evaluation of Business Analysis skills
- Business analysis techniques, the benefits and when to use them
- Changes of the business analyst role to match the latest market needs
- Webinar – Real IT Bites Early Career Professionals Series – Success Stories [Video]
- The Future of Business Analysis: Exploring Diverse Career Pathways
- A comprehensive guide to the major Business Analyst deliverables?
- The Importance of Diagrams in Business Analysis
Strategic Requirements Management
- How to elicit high level requirements by identifying use cases
- Drilling down solution requirements into more detail
- Gathering data requirements
- What are Non Functional requirements, why they are important and common mishaps (part 1)
- Gathering Non Functional requirements and who to involve (Part 2)
- The benefits of using Storyboards to gather requirements
- A guide to the RFP process
- Managing change to requirements
- Planning the traceability approach
Requirements Management and Process Modelling
- Tips for identifying requirements in meetings with stakeholders, especially if they don’t know what they want
- A guide to Business Process Modelling
- What is Business Process Modelling? [Video]
- The benefits of a multi-level approach to process mapping
- How to gather benefits and requirement justifications using NLP
- Using NLP to explain ambiguity from gathering and documenting requirements
- Using NLP to remove ambiguity from requirements
- What to include in a Business Requirements Document (BRD)
- 5 Guidelines for writing good business requirements
- Business Requirements checklist
- Analysis approach for large complicated data centric projects
Podcast appearances
Episode 196 – Finding what works with Helen Winter
