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Author Archives: R.P. Churchill
Post University CIS Advisory Board Meeting 2020
Today I participated in an annual advisory board for the CIS department at Post University in Waterbury, CT, as I have been privileged to do since 2016. I’ve written up my suggestions here and here when they’ve been extensive and … Continue reading
Iteration and Feedback: The Key to Making Projects and Teams Work
The Product Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) teaches that most project failures are caused by poor team dynamics. That may be true, but that’s just a specific case of a larger problem. The more foundational idea is that trouble arises … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged Bob's Analytic Framework, communication, project management
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Cross-Browser Compatibility: My Website Animation, Part 3
Following up on the issue I discussed previously here and here, I finally bit the bullet and straightened out the problems caused in the landing page animation by a certain behavior of Android web browsers. After periodically digging around for … Continue reading
Documentation
I’ve written a lot of different kinds of documentation in my career, and I list and describe them here. Some types of documentation are formal, as in manuals written for various phases of a project, but others will be more … Continue reading
Understanding and Monitoring Microservices Across Five Levels
Did I know anything about microservices (or DevOps, or…) when I landed at Universal recently? No, I did not. Did that stop me from figuring it out in short order? Nope. Did that stop me from being able to reverse-engineer … Continue reading
A Few Interesting Talks on Architecture and Microservices
These talks were recommended by Chase O’Neill, a very talented colleague from my time at Universal, and proved to be highly interesting. I’ve thought about things like this through my career, and they’re obviously more germane given where things are … Continue reading
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Unified Theory of Business Analysis: Part Four
How Different Management Styles Work Solutions, and let’s face it, those quite often involve the development and modification of software these days, can be realized in the context of many different types of organization. A lot of bandwidth is expended … Continue reading
Using Data In My Framework and In Simulations
I recently wrote about how data is collected and used in the different phases of my business analysis framework. After giving the most recent version of my presentation on the subject I was asked for clarification about how the data … Continue reading
Discrete-Event Simulations and Monte Carlo Techniques
“It was smooth sailing” vs. “I hit every stinkin’ red light today!” Think about all the factors that might affect how long it takes you to drive in to work every day. What are the factors that might affect your … Continue reading
Posted in Simulation
Tagged data collection, discrete-event simulation, Monte Carlo analysis
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Combined Survey Results (late March 2019)
The additional survey results from yesterday are included in the combined results here. List at least five steps you take during a typical business analysis effort. Requirements Gathering Initiation Testing QA Feedback User acceptance Requirement Elicitation UX Design Software Design … Continue reading
Posted in Tools and methods
Tagged BA survey, BABOK, Bob's Analytic Framework, business analysis, IIBA, presentation
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