Business Analysis

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Business analysis is a discipline that requires an array of knowledge, such as business domain expertise, effective communication skills, stakeholder management, navigation of technology landscape, deep understanding of stages within system development life cycle (SDLC), and future proofing intuition honed by experience. A good business analyst must be able to do more than methodically working through various stages of an Agile framework like Scrum or a traditional method, such as waterfall. …

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Scrum Master

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Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking that helps organisations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimise predictability and to control risk. The fundamental unit of Scrum is a small team comprising the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers. The Scrum Team handles all product-related activities, from stakeholder collaboration, verification, maintenance, operation, experimentation, research and development, and anything else that might be required. The Product …

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Agile

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Agile is an iterative approach to software development that delivers value to customers faster. Requirements, plans, and results are evaluated continuously, so teams have a natural mechanism for responding to change quickly. In Agile, a user story is a brief description of what a user wants to do within a software product to gain something they find valuable. User stories typically follow the role-feature-benefit pattern. As a [type of user], I want [an …

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Process Improvements

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Continuous improvement as a phrase or concept had been used in a wide range of business, management, organisational, even personal context. In a nutshell, continuous improvement refers to a never-ending effort to increase productivity by eliminating root causes of problems, reducing wastes, re-works, through replacement or re-engineering existing systems, processes and behaviours. Kaizen is the Japanese word for continuous improvement, in literal terms, ‘kai ‘ means “change,” and ‘zen’ means “good” when combined with …

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Management

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Management ultimately is about; planning, organizing, leading and controlling the human resources, financial, and information resources of an organization to reach its goals efficiently and effectively. Managers work with and through others to achieve the goals of the organisation by efficiently using limited resources to create conditions so that people can perform their task efficiently and effectively. Peter Drucker, an influential American author, renowned for his people-centered management theory, suggests …

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