Tag Archives: problem-solving

Brainstorming

Posted on February 15, 2022 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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BA Webinar Series 09a: How to Unsnarl A Problem When You’re Dropped In the Middle of It

Posted on August 6, 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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BA Webinar Series 09: How To Unsnarl A Problem When You’re Dropped In the Middle of It

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

I recently gave this webinar for the Philadelphia IIBA monthly meeting. The slides are here.

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Domain Knowledge Acquisition

Posted on May 21, 2018 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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Structured Thought: Problem Solving

Posted on March 13, 2018 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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Buggy, Design Contradictions, and TRIZ (now ARIZ)

Posted on July 3, 2017 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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Multiple Paths To Victory

Posted on January 27, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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Don’t Use the Tool Until You’ve Already Solved the Problem

Posted on December 28, 2015 by R.P. Churchill

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 →

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