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Brainstorming
I’ve touched on the idea of brainstorming previously, but today I wanted to address it specifically. The simplest way to describe brainstorming is that it is the act of generating as many possible options as possible, relevant to a particular … Continue reading
Posted in Tools and methods
Tagged BABOK, business analysis, problem-solving, Techniques
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BA Webinar Series 09a: How to Unsnarl A Problem When You’re Dropped In the Middle of It
Today I gave this webinar for the Tampa IIBA Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.
BA Webinar Series 09: How To Unsnarl A Problem When You’re Dropped In the Middle of It
I recently gave this webinar for the Philadelphia IIBA monthly meeting. The slides are here.
Domain Knowledge Acquisition
I’ve touched on this subject briefly before, but I wanted describe it more directly. The simplest definition of domain knowledge, for me, is: what you need to know to create and apply effective solutions in a specific situation. Acquisition, of … Continue reading
Structured Thought: Problem Solving
On Monday I attended a Meetup at the IIBA’s Pittsburgh Chapter for a presentation about structured problem solving given by a gentleman named Greg Acton. The presentation included an introduction of about twenty minutes, a small group exercise for another … Continue reading
Buggy, Design Contradictions, and TRIZ (now ARIZ)
A Tuesday session of the Project Summit / Business Analyst World conference (June 20th), featured an interesting talk by the New Jersey Department of Health’s Victoria Roza. She described methods of design and creativity coming out of a practice called … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering
Tagged ARIZ, business analysis, creativity, problem-solving, TRIZ
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Multiple Paths To Victory
With the release of the game Settlers of Catan in 1995, German inventor Klaus Teuber unleashed a product popular enough to introduce Americans to the Eurogame style of tabletop gaming. Per the Wikipedia entry, “A Eurogame, also called German-style board … Continue reading
Posted in Economy and Society
Tagged competition, cooperation, problem-solving, toys and games
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Don’t Use the Tool Until You’ve Already Solved the Problem
The article below opened the Continuum section of the August, 1981 issue of Omni Magazine (page 35, 15 in the linked pdf). It’s interesting to me because I took third-semester physics from Dr. Eisenstein, who is mentioned early in the … Continue reading