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Mastering Business Analysis
by Dave Saboe, CBAP, PMP, CSM | Certified Business Analysis Professional | Agile Coach
The Mastering Business Analysis podcast is a program with the goal of elevating the role of the Business Analyst and enhancing the skills of Business Analysts everywhere. Episodes include interviews with leaders in the business analysis community, helpful techniques, and effective practices. Together we will explore the Business Analyst role and I'll share information you need to achieve mastery in your role and advance in your career as a Business Analyst and beyond.
Episodes
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MBA228: Software Development Pearls
Karl Wiegers shares his lessons on requirements, project management, design, quality and more. Karl’s advice can make you significantly better at what you do. Show Notes Karl Wiegers started programming in 1970 and has collected 60 lessons he has learned in several areas of software development...
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MBA227: The Minimum Viable Business
Ian Reynolds discusses how to discover the right solutions for your customers and then deliver them quickly. Show Notes Many organizations, especially as people are trying to work in more Lean and Agile ways, work towards producing a minimum viable product (MVP) and move on after achieving it....
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MBALC: Elon Musk’s 5-Step Design Process
In this lightning cast, we explore the 5-step design process Elon Musk uses for SpaceX to innovate and get better results.
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MBA226: The FOCCCUS Formula
In this episode, we revisit Theory of Constraints, an approach to improving organizational performance by accelerating delivery. Author Clarke Ching shares his FOCCCUS Formula to address the system’s bottleneck. Show Notes In every process or value delivery system, there’s one constraint...
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MBA225: The Value of Business Models
David Mantica helps us understand business models and helps us understand how to find new opportunities to create greater value. Show Notes Creating product requirements and delivering features is one thing. Understanding the business context and business models associated with your product and...
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MBA224: Corkscrew Thinking
In this episode, Clarke Ching shares an innovative problem solving approach to help us solve tricky problems. Show Notes We’re often called upon to apply our problem solving skills and help organizations make better decisions. The challenge is when we face really tricky problems. To solve these…
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MBA223: The Human Work Machine
David Mantica discusses the brain science behind some of the challenges knowledge workers face and helps you shift your mindset to enable you to thrive in a complex and chaotic environment. Show Notes As knowledge workers, we rely on our brains and relationships to get things done. That’s where...
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MBA222: Testing Your Business Ideas
David Bland discusses the importance of testing your business ideas and shares ways to dramatically reduce the risk and increase the likelihood of success for your product, initiative, or project. Show Notes Studies show that 7 out of 10 products fail to deliver on expectations. We often fall…
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MBA221: Systems Thinking and Business Agility
Adrian Reed discusses systems thinking, how it enables business agility, and how it can help elevate the value you bring to your organization. Show Notes We live in a complex, rapidly changing world. In order to support our stakeholders and our organizations, we need to expand our view and adopt…
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MBA220: Thoughtless Design with Karl Wiegers
Author and thought leader Karl Wiegers shares principles and lessons he has learned from poor designs and what you can do to develop solutions that create a great user experience. Show Notes We’re all experienced products that are confusing, difficult to use, and cause frustration. Author Karl...
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MBA219: How To Be an Agile Business Analyst
Kent McDonald shares his thoughts on what it takes to succeed as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment.
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BA Toolbox – A3 Report
In this episode of the BA Toolbox, we explore the A3 report and it's use in problem solving.
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MBA218: Customer-Centric Transformation
Melissa Boggs discusses how the Scrum Alliance transformed into customer-centric teams and how you can have a greater customer focus. SHOW NOTES Over the past several years, many organizations have transformed the way they work and the way they’re organized. With Digital and Agile transformations...
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Lightning Cast: Agile Planning
Understanding the different levels of Agile planning and what they mean for you will help your team stay aligned and focused on achieving the right outcomes. Show Notes Responding to change over following a plan. This value listed in the Agile Manifesto doesn’t mean that we don’t do planning in...
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MBA217: Objectives and Key Results
Paul Niven helps us to understand Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a goal-setting tool to set ambitious goals with measurable results. Show Notes Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal-setting system to help drive strategic execution. It’s a critical thinking framework and ongoing…
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Lightning Cast: POWER Start for Your Meetings
Stop the wasted time and money from ineffective meetings by giving your next meeting a POWER Start. Show Notes According to a recent Atlassian survey, professionals waste 31 hours each month on unproductive meetings. That’s about four full days wasted each month. In the U.S. alone, unnecessary...
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MBA216: Outcome Based Change
David Hawks shares an approach to transformations, projects, and large change initiatives by starting with the intended business outcomes. Show Notes Many transformations and large initiatives fail or don’t achieve their intended value. While the transformation, project, or large initiative may…
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Lightning Cast: Resistance to Change
Are you working on a change initiative? Overcome resistance to change using Goldratt’s Four Quadrants of Change. A lot of people talk about how difficult change is and how people resist change. People don’t actually resist change; they respond to a change by evaluating the change across four...
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MBA215: The Challenges with Leading in Product Management
Roman Pichler discusses the challenges associated with leading in a Product Management role and what you can do to overcome those challenges.
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MBA214: The BA Success Path
Laura Brandenburg shares her framework for career development; the Business Analyst Success Path. Show Notes Many Business Analysts struggle to understand how to get to the next step in their career. The way to advance in your career depends on where you are now. Charting your career path...
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MBA213: Applying Theory of Constraints
If you want to accelerate and deliver with greater speed and flexibility that’s critical to serving your customers, combine Agile with Theory of Constraints. Clarke Ching shows us how. Show Notes Perhaps you have Agile teams that are doing everything right; they’re limiting work in progress,...
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MBA212: Transforming Your Work with Modern Agile
Joshua Kerievsky shares the four principles of Modern Agile and how they can help you find better ways of working and achieve better business outcomes.
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MBA211: Adaptive Leadership
In this time of unrelenting change, we need leadership at all levels. Here's what you need to help your team succeed.
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MBA210: Vital Communication
Communication is vital to success on teams and organizations. In this episode, Tommy Re shows us how to dramatically improve communication.
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MBA209: Visual Thinking
Grant Wright Shares simple Visual Thinking tools and practices to help your team get aligned and retain information. Show Notes Do you want to increase retention of information, ensure alignment and a shared understanding, and increase creativity? Visual Thinking can help get everyone on the same...
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MBA208: Facilitative Leadership
Author Michael Levine helps us unleash the power of large, diverse teams of smart, experienced individuals to deliver positive business results. Show Notes How can you unleash the power of large, diverse groups of smart, experienced individuals to deliver positive business results through…
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MBA207: Bad Behaviors in the Workplace
Paul Pelletier helps us to understand the root causes of disrespectful behaviors at work and how to address them. Show Notes Have you ever witnessed toxic behaviors that bring down a team or lead to project failures? Bad behaviors can come in a variety of forms; from rolling your eyes when…
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MBA206: Succeeding with Analytics
Jim Rushton helps us to understand why 80% of analytics projects fail and what you can do to make sure yours succeeds.
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Lightning Cast: BA Goals Revisited
Building on last year’s episode about BA performance goals, we discuss how to choose the right goals and achieve them. Business Analyst Goals Revisited The post Lightning Cast: BA Goals Revisited appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.
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MBA205: Beyond Data Literacy
Lori Silverman helps us get real value from data by developing core competence and creating the culture needed to support collaborative data-informed decision making. Show Notes Many organizations are trying to use data for better decision making. Unfortunately, most aren’t getting the value they...
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MBA204: Top Skills for 2020
LinkedIn’s list of the 15 most in-demand skills includes business analysis and many skills that are critical to your success. Show Notes Earlier this month, LinkedIn came out with their list of skills companies need most in 2020. The article lists the most in-demand soft and hard skills...
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MBA203: Career Insurance
David Mantica shares ways to protect yourself from layoffs and prepare for career advancement opportunities. Show Notes The unfortunate reality is that many of us will experience unexpected (and undesired) career changes. Companies may merge, the economy may slow down, your organization may need…
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Yes, Virginia, There Are BAs in Agile
Holiday Episode: In the style of the New York Sun editorial in which an 8 year old Virginia asks if there’s a Santa Clause, grown up Virginia asks if there are Business Analysts in Agile. DEAR EDITOR: I am 30 years old. Some of my coworkers say there is no Business Analyst in Agile; especially…
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Lightning Cast: Failure to Launch (a new product)
Find out what you can do to ensure a successful product launch. Show Notes Disney recently launched its Disney+ streaming service. Unfortunately, the launch was met with some problems as many of their 10 million subscribers couldn’t log in or couldn’t stream videos. After the launch, I read an...
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MBA202: Business Value Analysis
David Mantica helps us overcome one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today – understanding value and building the right solution. Show Notes We’re doing things . . . but are they the right things? This is a common challenge for many organizations. It all comes down to value such as...
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MBA201: Tips From an Accidental Product Owner
Richard Larson shares his experiences as an accidental Product Owner and provides tips and advice for others moving toward a role in Product Ownership. Show Notes It’s tough to play two roles at once. If you’re expected to perform your normal business analysis activities and also function as a...
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MBA200: Take Action! The Best Advice from Over 200 Episodes
Here’s the best tips and advice from industry experts in over 200 episodes. Now take action! Show Notes As long-time listeners know, I ask guests for one action that we can take to start seeing some positive results. In this episode, I have gathered the best advice from over 200 episodes (199…
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MBA199: The Future of the BA Profession
In this episode, Kevin Brennan discusses how the world of work is changing and how Business Analysts need to adapt. Shot Notes With changes in working environments from Agile and digital transformations, Business Analysts need to adapt to stay relevant. With this change. business analysis...
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MBA198: DevOps – What it Means for BAs
Michael Roberts helps us understand what DevOps is and how it affects the role of Business Analysts. Show Notes Many organizations are using DevOps to benefit their customers. But what is DevOps and what role do Business Analysts play? Is DevOps a tool set, a practice, or a way of working? With...
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MBA197: Making Change Fun
Lora McCoy discusses how to shift the psychological response to change and help stakeholders adapt and adopt the change. Show Notes When it comes to change, often the only one who isn’t afraid is the person driving the change. Sometimes a person’s response to change seems irrational. That…
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MBA196: Customer Journey Treasure Hunting
Vince Mirabelli shares some practical, how-to approaches to developing empathy, mapping the customer journey, and finding business process improvement opportunities along the way. Show Notes An Empathy Map is a tool you can use to understand who your customer is, their pain points, and what they...
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MBA195: Example Mapping
Kent McDonald shares his thoughts about what you need to know about Agile and how to use Example Mapping; a technique to create a shared understanding. Show Notes In addition to participating on the Product Ownership Panel during the Building Business Capability conference, Kent is also leading a...
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MBA194: Start Your Project Off Right
In this episode, Adrian Reed shares his advice for successfully initiating projects and stakeholder management. Show Notes If you’ve ever been thrown into a messy project where the goal and scope aren’t well defined, Adrian Reed’s session at this year’s BBC conference can help. In Navigating the...
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MBA193: About Your Career
In this episode, Ryland Leyton shares tips and advice from his new book to help you find the right job and grow in your career. Links Mentioned in This Episode http://rylandleyton.com/ Ryland’s book om Amazon It’s About Your Career Ryland Leyton Ryland Leyton is a Certified Business Analysis...
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Lightning Cast: Story Estimation – What’s the Point?
In this episode, we explore the use (and misuse) of story point estimation. Lightning Casts are shorter episodes, sharing valuable information in 8 minutes or less. Show Notes Many Agile teams estimate their User Stories using story points. When using this approach, many teams also apply story...
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Lightning Cast: Requirements Rot
Requirements decay over time. Here’s how to prevent Requirements Rot. Show Notes Has your organization experienced requirements rot? A common term in software development is code rot. Code rot is a slow degradation of the performance of a software application that will eventually make it…
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MBA192: The Blight of Product Debt
In this episode, you’ll discover what Product Debt is and the impact it can have on your product and your organization. You’ll also find out how to address Product Debt and ensure you are delivering valuable solutions quickly. Show Notes Debt is what you owe because you borrowed from tomorrow for...
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Lightning Cast: The Power to Get Things Done
In this episode, we’ll discuss the different kinds of power you can use to get things done within your team or across your organization. Show Notes Have you ever been frustrated because things aren’t getting done? Are others failing to do their part to move your project along? If you’ve ever…
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MBA191: Use Cases in Agile
In this episode, Ivar Jacobson shows us how to apply Use Cases in an Agile context and helps us discover how a Use Case approach addresses some of the problems with User Stories. Show Notes You may have used Use Cases in a waterfall environment, but can this technique work in Agile? The most…
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Lightning Cast: AI – Can you be replaced by a machine?
A Gartner study predicts that 80% of Project Management tasks will be performed by Artificial Intelligence by 2030. Will you lose your job to a machine? Lightning Casts are shorter episodes, sharing valuable information in 8 minutes or less. Show Notes Last year, CIO magazine ran an article with...
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The Mastering Business Analysis podcast is a program with the goal of elevating the role of the Business Analyst and enhancing the skills of Business Analysts everywhere. Episodes include interviews with leaders in the business analysis community, helpful techniques, and effective practices. Together we will explore the Business Analyst role and I'll share information you need to achieve mastery in your role and advance in your career as a Business Analyst and beyond.
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Dave Saboe, CBAP, PMP, CSM | Certified Business Analysis Professional | Agile Coach
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