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Posts Written ByAndrew Blain
Five tips for leading through Coronavirus
In a time of unprecedented uncertainty leaders have a critical role in both guiding and supporting their teams and also in managing their business effectively.
How to approach agile portfolio management
Andrew walks you through how to set up an effective agile portfolio management framework, and fine tune it so that it fits your organisation’s needs.
Measuring flow efficiency – and why it matters
Find opportunities to reduce waste and improve process effectiveness – by starting with understanding your flow efficiency.
Is Kanban to Agile what Agile was to Waterfall?
Kanban is not really a member of the ‘agile’ family at all, rather it is an evolutionary approach to managing knowledge work that borrows heavily from Lean principles.
Team Culture Retrospective
The Team Culture Retrospective is a simple technique combining goals of continuous improvement and learnings from motivational science (Management 3.0).
Specialisation is killing you
I once worked a project for a large company that aimed to implement an A/B testing solution on their website. The software selected made life really simple, we just needed to add a link to a javascript library to each webpage. In my digital agency days in the UK this would have been a straight-forward change and I would imagine…
Scaling Agile with SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework)
Andrew Blain provides an overview of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
How do I break into Business Analysis?
Andrew tries to answer the question:
“How do I break into a career in Business Analysis?”
Certifiable, Me?
Andrew describes his experience studying for and taking the IIBA’s Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) examination.
Are You Certifiable?
Thanks to the excellent work of organisations such as the International Institute of Business Analysts, a number of Business Analyst Certifications have recently emerged. In this post Andrew discusses the merits of certification.
Can you do UML? Yeah, sure…
Andrew describes what it really means to be proficient in UML and discusses the importance of honestly appraising your abilities.