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Is Technology Increasing or Suppressing Curiosity? The following question seems to be surfacing more and more often: Is technology increasing curiosity or is it, as some people fear, suppressing it? There’s an understandable concern that instant gratification is making us less likely to be curious about increasingly difficult problems. |
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First Things First: Get the Business Analysis Basics in Place While we can debate about best and better practices for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting requirements, many organizations have yet to adopt a requirements practice at all. When they do so, they will have the opportunity to realize significant benefits. |
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Moving from Customer Focus to Market Focus Being customer focused is supposed to be a good thing. But if you are focusing on a collection of individual customers and you’re not focusing on a market of customers, you have the customer part down, but you forgot the focus. Scott Sehlhorst offers guidelines for becoming market focused. |
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Use Caution When Adding New Members to Your Team Adding new members to a team shouldn’t be a big deal, but often it is. If you need to add people to an existing team, take care not to impose the individual on the team. Teams that participate in selecting new team members tend to be much more committed to making the right decision. |
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Put Me In, Coach: Gaming-Driven Productivity Your employees and team members are playing games for other companies. Why aren't they playing for you? Learn how many companies are encouraging productivity-boosting gaming while at work to improve everything from morale to productivity—and even customer service. |
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The Three Essential Elements of Business Analysis No question is more ripe for debate than “What is a business analyst?” While I contend we’ve been doing business analysis since the very first human organizations were consciously formed, business analysis as a formal profession has emerged much more recently and has three essential elements. |
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Counter Those Boring Meetings with Stand-up Meetings Do you consider a “boring meeting” to be a redundant phrase? As helpful as advice on staying awake during boring meetings may be, keep in mind that ten-to-fifteen-minute stand-up sessions could be an effective way to make meetings more productive and less boring. |
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Be Careful: The Internet Is Real Life, Too It's undeniable that we experience the offline and the online worlds in drastically different ways. Perhaps this difference is what leads us to feel as though the online and offline worlds are two separate things. This digital dualism leads many to think that anything that happens online is trivial. |
