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Business Visualization in a post-Project Managed World
2/16/2008 | posted by
SClark
In the last two years I have seen a pervasive shift. The number and type of new resources, whose titles are very different from teammates in past projects, who are now the mission critical people to successfully delivered process and software transformation projects reveal a paradigm shift.
These roles include interaction designers, usability experts, user centered designers, user experience and user interface designers as well as business application designers, busin ...
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Yesterday we happened to watch The Beauty Academy of Kabul, and I was struck by the metaphors that apply to all the things we do as business visualization experts, whether BAs, UI/UE/UX experts, developers, testers, project funders or other change artists.
Perhaps most dramatically, six women from the U.S., with the assistance of the corporate beauty industries' social works foundations, believed they could spark visions of cultural, political and gender transformation in the hearts of wo ...
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...hmmmmm.... here is the object of my fascination and the source of our job security....
What is this? This is the ultimate meta metamodel. While it elegantly means, 'everything is related to everything,' it doesn't help us refine or clarify what we mean by making this deep observation.
I originally found this in Richard Barker's book called Case Method: Entity Relationship Modelling. (Addison Wesley, 1990. ISBN-10: 0201416964.)
Just as Plato considere ...
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Well, for those who watch, listen, and form their opinions quietly, you probably noticed my Social Bookmarking experiment didn't go so well. Did you notice? If you noticed,. let me know what you thought as you waited, pensively?, for pending content that never emerged.
In the two months since my last blog I have been experimenting with del.icio.us and other social networking sites, like FaceBook and LinkedIn, in order to evaluate how best to integrate my presence on MyCatalyze with ...
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Do you separate out Stakeholder Requests from Features, Process Enhancements, System Requirements and Change Requests?
Whether you do or not, do you define and/or manage any business requirements outside of project-funded work?
Asked another way, do your Business Units pay for requirements elicitation without project funding?
I have recently had the (mis)fortune to reacknowledge how unlikely it is that we will see the details behind how and why a business really operates; ...
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Have you been involved in the rollout of SCRUM for Project Portfolio Management? Are you focused on contributing to an emergent product backlog, scoped sprints and evangelizing the importance of improving your story point-estimations?
If so, once done with initial small iterations of this set of process enhancements, do you (or your) design and development partners then proceed to code, test, recode,, deploy, perform UAT, and change manage support-related issues in old-school iterative or ...
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When we do things together and are aware we're providing unique value, at the right time, in combination with others whose offerings are equally unique and necessary to accomplish a shared goal we maximize the number of use cases we fulfill simultaneously and with least effort and spent time.
In the context of Vision, Mission, Objectives and Goals, why do we lose sight of this kind of primary directive or guiding principle?
BPM vs BPM; When Acronyms Collide & the Importance of BPA
6/23/2007 | posted by
SClark
Woe the lack of words in the English language. Or lament the human tendency to complicate communication by over-simplifying summary references to complex concepts and topics.
During a multi-company brainstorming session yesterday, six people took 15 minutes to introduce their perceptions of Business Process Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management Systems and the emerging software platforms designed to expose, organize and manage Business Assets.
It took ...
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