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Mastering Business Analysis

by Dave Saboe, Business Analyst | 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.

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Episodes

  1. 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.

  2. MBA227: The Minimum Viable Business

    Ian Reynolds discusses how to discover the right solutions for your customers and then deliver them quickly.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. MBA224 Corkscrew Thinking

    Clarke Ching shares an innovative problem solving approach to help us solve tricky problems.

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. MBA221: Systems Thinking and Business Agility

    Adrian Reed discusses the importance of systems thinking and how it relates to business agility.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. MBA Tool Cast - A3_Report

    In this episode of the BA Toolbox, we explore the A3 report and it's use in problem solving.

  13. 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.

  14. MBALC: Agile Planning

    Understanding the different levels of Agile planning and your role at each level will help keep your team aligned and focused on the right outcomes.

  15. 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.

  16. MBALC: Give Your Meetings a POWER Start

    Stop the wasted time and money from ineffective meetings by giving your next meeting a POWER Start.

  17. MBA216: Outcome Based Change

    David Hawks shares an approach to transformations, projects, and large change initiatives by starting with the business outcomes.

  18. MBALC: Resistance to Change

    Overcome resistance to change using Goldratt's Four Quadrants of Change.

  19. 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.

  20. MBA214: The Business Analyst Success Path

    Laura Brandenburg shares her framework for career development; the Business Analyst Success Path.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. MBA210: Vital Communication

    Communication is vital to success on teams and organizations. In this episode, Tommy Re shows us how to dramatically improve communication.

  25. MBA209: Visual Thinking

    Grant Wright Shares simple Visual Thinking tools and practices to help your team get aligned and retain information.

  26. MBA208: Facilitative Leadership

    Author Michael Levine helps us unleash the power of large, diverse groups of smart, experienced individuals to deliver positive business results.

  27. 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.

  28. MBA206: Success with Analytics

    Author Jim Rushton helps our analytics projects succeed by shifting away from a transactional mindset and ensuring some key pieces are in place before we start looking at data.

  29. 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.

  30. MBA205: Beyond Data Literacy

    Get value from data by developing enterprise core competence and culture needed to support collaborative data-informed decision making.

  31. MBA204: Top Skills for 2020

    Do you have the 15 most in-demand skills companies are looking for this year?

  32. MBA203: Career Insurance

    David Mantica shares ways to protect yourself from layoffs as well as prepare for career advancement.

  33. Yes, Virginia, There are BAs in Agile

    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.

  34. Failure to Launch (a new product)

    Disney had issues with the launch of their Disney+ streaming service. Here's what you can do you help your organization reduce risk and uncover potential issues with a new product launch.

  35. MBA202: Business Value Analysis

    David Mantica helps overcome one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today - understanding value and building the right solution.

  36. 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.

  37. MBA200: Take Action!

    Here's the best tips and advice from industry experts in over 200 episodes. Now take action!

  38. MBA199: The Future of the Business Analysis Profession

    Kevin Brennan discusses how the world of work is changing and how Business Analysts need to adapt.

  39. MBA198: DevOps and What it Means for Business Analysts

    Michael Roberts helps us understand what DevOps is and how it affects the role of Business Analysts.

  40. MBA197: Making Change Fun

    Lora McCoy discusses how to shift the psychological response to change and help stakeholders adapt and adopt the change.

  41. 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.

  42. MBA195: Example Mapping with Kent McDonald

    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.

  43. MBA194: Start Your Project Off Right

    Adrian Reed shares his advice for successfully initiating projects and stakeholder management.

  44. MBA193: About Your Career

    Ryland Leyton shares tips and advice from his new book to help you find the right job and grow in your career.

  45. MBALC: Story Estimation - What's the Point?

    In this episode, we explore the use (and misuse) of story point estimation.

  46. MBALC: Requirements Rot

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  47. MBA192: The Blight of Product Debt

    Product debt can slow the delivery, erode customer value, and make it difficult to innovate. Here are the different types of product debt and what you can do about it.

  48. MBALC: 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.

  49. MBA191: Use Cases in Agile

    User Stories aren't the only technique you can use in an Agile context. Use Cases can also be used and they even help address some common problems with User Stories.

  50. AI - Can you be replaced by a robot?

    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?

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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.

HOSTED BY

Dave Saboe, Business Analyst | Agile Coach

Produced by Dave Saboe

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