Getting Started with Business Analysis
Are you new to the field of business analysis? No mater what your title, business analysis is a critical skill. The podcasts below are intended for those getting started with business anaysis.
MBA037: The Key to Better Collaboration
Jim Tamm shares some essential skills for effective collaboration and practical tools designed to help you manage your own defensiveness, build trust, reduce conflict and create a more collaborative working environment.
MBA035: Active Listening – The Most Important Skill
What is the single most important skill needed by every business analyst, product owner, and project manager? It’s a skill that allows you to build trust and ensure an accurate, shared understanding. That skill is active listening.
MBA033: Landing and Succeeding in Your First BA Role – Interview with Alex Papworth
In this episode, consultant and blogger Alex Papworth shares his advice for starting a career as a Business Analyst - how to get and succeed in your first role as a BA. [smart_track_player...
MBA032: Systems Thinking – Interview with Paula Bell
In this episode, consultant and author Paula Bell shares her approach to Systems Thinking - a holistic analysis approach to understanding how the parts of an organizational system interrelate. [smart_track_player...
MBA029: Business Process Improvement – Keep it Simple – Interview with Brian Hunt
In this episode, Business Process Consultant Brian Hunt shares with us his approach to starting a business process improvement initiative and some simple tools you can use to get started. [smart_track_player...
MBA026: Guarding Against Scope Creep
Scope creep isn’t just the nickname of that weird guy with chronic bad breath down the hall. It also refers to uncontrolled changes or the continuous growth in a project’s scope. Often, this addition to scope comes without corresponding changes to the budget, resources, and schedule. Scope creep is also known as requirements creep and can occur when the project scope is poorly defined and as a result, requirements are added that do not align with the objective of the project.
MBA021: Is the Business Analyst Role Just Overhead? Interview with John Sextro
"Let's get rid of Business Analysts and ScrumMasters." In this episode, we're joined by John Sextro. John recently gave a provocative lightening talk at a conference about removing Business Analysts and ScrumMasters from agile teams. We'll discuss what this would...
MBA020: The Value of Certifications – Interview with David Mantica
In this episode, David Mantica, President of ASPE-SDLC, shares his views on the value of professional certifications - both to the individual and to the organization. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/masteringbusinessanalysis/MBA_020.mp3" title="The...
MBA019: Why Start with Why? Interview with Stephen Shedletzky
In this episode, leadership speaker and Start With Why facilitator Stephen Shedletzky helps us understand how to apply the Start With Why concept to our role to help our organizations work on the right things and deliver value to customers. He’ll also share his...
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