Some very good ideas here for attendance guidelines...
5. Make It a Short Meeting – Most meetings are allocated too much time. Very few topics need an hour-long meeting. Instead, schedule it for 30 (or 15) minutes. It is easy to be 5 (or 10) minutes late to an hour-long event. People will be less likely to miss 10 minutes of a 15 minute meeting.
via 9 Ways to Start the 9AM Meeting On Time | Time Management Ninja.
On its face this article is about how to interview for a development job. But as a BA, this offers nice guidelines for many projects I have worked on.
take ownership of open-ended problems, and it's our job to come up with the best solution to each. We need people we can trust to do the right thing without a lot of supervision — people who can own large projects and take them consistently in the right direction. Invariably, this means being able to communicate effectively with the people around you. Working on problems with huge scope isn't something you can do in a vacuum.
via Palantir Technologies » Blog Archive » How to Rock a Systems Design Interview.
«Just like medicine, if we don't approach things in a systematized way, and make sure we're incorporating all the different stakeholders, we're going to be in trouble. You can't just go out make a bunch of decisions on your own,» says Schumacher. IT pros must be able to shepherd users through business processes
via What IT Pros Can Learn From Doctors About Communic... - Input Output.
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via Free Project Management Software & Online Time Tracking & Expense Tool.
Looks like a well rounded tool.
AceProject - Project Management Software
More can be found on their channel.
Nice range of articles for the Business Analyst here - Articles | Requirements Management
Requirements Management - Software Requirements Management UML, Business Analysis, BDD Tools, News and Resources
This one, The Dangers of Design by User, really hits home right now.
This video is about 40 minutes long, but worth it I think. Makes the case for Operations as asset vs. cost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=28fjdQNuMr8
If you are interested in IT management -- and web operations in particular -- you might have recently heard the term «DevOps» being tossed around. The #DevOps tag pops up regularly on Twitter. DevOps meetups and DevOpsDays conferences, are gaining steam.
DevOps is, in many ways, an umbrella concept that refers to anything that smooths out the interaction between development and operations. However, the ideas behind DevOps run much deeper than that...
via What is DevOps? - Blog - dev2ops - Solving Large Scale Web Operations and DevOps Problems.
So I am rolling up my sleeves.
Posting useful articles and tools to be used mainly by Business System Analysts and Project Managers to commence shortly.
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