Tag Archives: Agile

TWSL Series 12: Management Observations and Agile Deep Dive

Posted on June 15, 2023 by R.P. Churchill

Today I gave this webinar for the Tom Woods School of Life Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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Roadmaps to Get Your Agile Transformation Out of the Ditch

Posted on September 13, 2021 by R.P. Churchill

My friend Mathew McConnell gave this excellent presentation for the Pittsburgh IIBA chapter this evening. The slides may be found here, and I encourage you to review the entire deck. I’ve never spoken or written on this subject, but Matt … Continue reading →

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BA Webinar Series 11: Management Observations and Agile Deep Dive

Posted on August 13, 2021 by R.P. Churchill

Today I gave this webinar for the Tampa IIBA Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.

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This Era’s “Great Project,” Revisited

Posted on July 26, 2021 by R.P. Churchill

The first post I wrote here, close to six years ago now, talked about a friend who bemoaned the fact that he wasn’t working on something singularly and identifiably great. My contention then was that, while the specific work wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Richard Frederick Lunch & Learn Webinar Series for Tampa IIBA

Posted on January 11, 2021 by R.P. Churchill

I got to know Richard Frederick when he gave a series of twenty lunchtime webinars for the Tampa chapter of the IIBA. In the interest of making his excellent material available as widely as possible, I am sharing, with his … Continue reading →

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Documentation

Posted on July 22, 2019 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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Unified Theory of Business Analysis: Part Four

Posted on April 4, 2019 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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Communicating With Leaders

Posted on February 27, 2019 by R.P. Churchill

Yesterday I attended the Tampa IIBA’s chapter meeting to see the presentation given by Kara Sundar, titled Communicating With Leaders: Increase Your Productivity and Influence. The presentation was very effective and based on materials from the book Change Intelligence by … Continue reading →

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Jira and Confluence for RTMs and My Framework

Posted on May 15, 2018 by R.P. Churchill

I finally finished the Udemy course on Jira and Confluence. As I watched each section of the course I thought about how the capabilities of the two products can be used to represent Requirements Traceability Matrices, and furthermore how they … Continue reading →

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Of Pencils, the Division of Labor, Building Teams, and Knowing What the Heck Is Going On

Posted on March 7, 2018 by R.P. Churchill

The conversation at the watering hole after this evening’s CharmCityJS Meetup was interesting as usual. In between talking with and encouraging some of the younger attendees and speakers I spoke with a senior developer about a contract he was finishing … Continue reading →

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