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Picture this if you will: It’s a Monday morning after a long weekend where you took Friday off to get out of the city. You were consequently out of 3G coverage which resulted in no mobile phone reception, and therefore no email access. Back to Monday – you start your email application, and you have 113 unread emails. Do you: panic and hyperventilate, black spots start to appear in your peripheral vision, head straight to the kitchen, coffee will be your only saviour, knuckle down, and start going through the emails in the order you received them, or wish you [&hellip

Once upon a time a consulting firm bid for a high profile, fixed price project using Platform A. I realize that I have only started reading this fairytale story but how on earth has this bid included a technology choice when they are yet to do the analysis? The clients were delighted, as were the consulting firm when they won the > 15M contract. “And now for the real work to begin!” declared the (first) Project Manager. The Business Analysts swooped in and worked their magic on high-level design documentation and a long list of prioritized requirements. “Wonderful” declared both [&hellip

Politics is a tricky business. When I think of a politician I am reminded of a cowboy trying to herd cattle – they know where they want to take everyone, it’s just rather hard to get everyone to go in their chosen direction. Blood, sweat and tears are involved in the dusty world of influencing people, and all too often, business analysts forget their cowboy hats at home. Human nature inherently means that we want to be heard and have our opinions counted. If our thoughts are not listened to, we tend to feign interest regardless of the outcome. Politicians [&hellip