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The Sichuan Restaurant

April 17, 2011March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Organizations, Uncategorized

I am in Bangalore for an agile training for a client. I’m staying near our office in Koramangala so I went to this chinese restaurant called “Sichuan” near Raheja Residency for dinner. First of all let me say that its […]

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The Project Owner

April 16, 2011March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Organizations, Uncategorized

I recently paired on an Agile Fundamentals training for an organization. Its a two day course in agile philosophy, principles and basic practices offered by ThoughtWorks Studios. Its more of an awareness programme than training that you can put to […]

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Iterations, Batches and Flow

April 12, 2011March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Uncategorized

I’ve recently had a lot of conversations with people who are thinking of iterations as batches. By definition that’s what they are. You sign up for a “batch” of stories, at the beginning of the iteration, and you deliver them by the […]

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Where do RFPs come from?

February 14, 2011March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Uncategorized

Once upon a time in a big corporation… Mr. X (you know? the one who does all the work) : Aaaaaargh! I am fed up of watching this screen 24×7 just to let Mr. Y (the boss) know if I […]

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When in a inception…

October 31, 2010March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Software Theory, Uncategorized

Everyone is an analyst Don’t get bound by role boundaries. Everyone needs to understand the system. Talk to the clients, ask questions, draw diagrams, make suggestions, understand problems and solve them. Make sure everyone facilitates sessions at least once Especially […]

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Livescribe Pulse Smartpen

July 19, 2010March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Reviews, Uncategorized

Ooooh! Ooooooh! I love it!! This is the most awesomest thing I have bought this year. There are enough reviews online for me not to write one of my own. But I’ll mention the most useful features here: Captures everything […]

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Number Lust

March 17, 2010March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Software Theory, Uncategorized

I am an amateur photographer while I am not not hacking project teams and building custom software at ThoughtWorks. Photographers are known to have bouts of lens lust* time and again, especially at the beginning. I realize that some managers […]

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Onsite Business Analyst

March 17, 2010March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Software Theory, Uncategorized

This has come up in various discussions recently and I want to put down my thoughts about the role and responsibilities. For a ThoughtWorks team in India (or China) most of the work is offshore agile development. Clients are usually […]

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Metrics

March 2, 2010March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Software Theory, Uncategorized

I have recently come out of a consulting assignment which has given me loads of time to read and think about processes, improvements and effectiveness. (People who follow me on google reader must have noticed). It also had me thinking […]

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Testing considered wasteful??

February 19, 2010March 18, 2017 adminAgile Software Development, Business Analysis, Software Theory, Uncategorized

@silvercatalyst posted on twitter a few days back that one of the trainees in his session counted testing as waste. I retweeted with a #funny but @silvercatalyst said he actually agreed with it. So we twiscussed it for a while. […]

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