"In which part of the organization should a business analyst or requirements engineer be located?" is actually an age-old question. It always comes along with other questions like the „what is the difference between a business analyst and a requirements engineer?“, as well as the WHAT and HOW. These questions have a symbiotic relationship. If an … Weiterlesen In which part of the organization should a business analyst or requirements engineer be located?
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How to really get promoted
James Caan, an influencer at LinkedIn recently wrote a blog post about how to get promoted. In his post he describes how you should present your recent accomplishments in order to sell your promotion to the decision makers. While that is great advice, it misses the point, twice actually. First, James believes that you get promoted for what you did … Weiterlesen How to really get promoted
Choose people you trust, trust the people you have chosen
Employees come motivated, superiors can only de-motivate them. "An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her managers" (Dr. Bob Nelson). It is so easy to feel de-motivated when dealing with senior management. We have to find ways to not let ourselves be de-motivated by them. My previous post The slaves of a Scrum team … Weiterlesen Choose people you trust, trust the people you have chosen
Erzwungene Kreativität
Gunter Dueck provozierte, als er seine These formulierte „Brainstorming hat jetzt 100 Jahre nichts gebracht und man hat es umbenannt in Design Thinking.“ Ich vermute, ihm ging es hierbei weniger um die Methoden Brainstorming oder Design Thinking an sich, sondern um die Tatsache, dass „Untalentierte“ nicht kreativ sein können und um die Frage, wer in solchen … Weiterlesen Erzwungene Kreativität
How to make your meetings memorable
They say we should decline meetings without an agenda because the agenda defines the planned course of action and what is aimed to be achieved. After planning the event, sticking to the agenda, and producing the desired results, meeting organizers sometimes forget to make their meeting memorable.
Die wichtigste Charaktereigenschaft eines Requirements Engineers
Am Swiss Requirements Day 2015 wird Roger Köppel die zweite Keynote halten. Als Chef-Redakteur der Weltwoche wird er Verbindungen und Ähnlichkeiten zwischen den Berufen des Journalisten und des Requirements Engineers aufzeigen. Die ablehnende Haltung von potenziellen Teilnehmern ihm gegenüber zeigt aber, wie schwierig es ist, ein guter Requirements Engineer zu sein. Roger Köppel ist politisch sehr … Weiterlesen Die wichtigste Charaktereigenschaft eines Requirements Engineers
Spannendes Programm beim Swiss Requirements Day 2015
Am 17. Juni 2015 wird der Swiss Requirements Day wieder als eine der grössten Veranstaltungen im deutschsprachigen Raum für Business Analysten, System Analysten und Requirements Engineers stattfinden. In den vergangenen Jahren sind jeweils rund 500 Teilnehmer dem guten Ruf der Veranstaltung gefolgt und in das Kongresshaus Zürich gekommen, um sich über die neuesten Trends und … Weiterlesen Spannendes Programm beim Swiss Requirements Day 2015
The biologic reasons behind Scrum
My daily experiences show that Scrum is a natural, biologic countermeasure against the usual shortcomings in projects.
Mislead obsessions
A company obsessed with its processes and roles will lose its obsession with its products and customers.
The product owner for the rest of us
Every team whose demand and task stack is open to multiple sources wishes for someone to prioritize and decide which tasks would create the biggest business value at this point in time. Having only one person who knows it all and who prioritizes all demands and tasks? Who wouldn’t want that for his or her … Weiterlesen The product owner for the rest of us
Olav Dreier 