Every experienced business analyst will have plenty of scars and stories from working on projects and initiatives that should never have been pursued in the first place. These include ideas that were never going to deliver real benefits, projects that couldn’t be successfully completed with the available resources, and initiatives that made things much worse… Read More »10 awkward questions
Better Business Analysis had its 4th birthday yesterday, and (as well as adopting a new colour scheme) I’ve been doing some belated spring-cleaning on this site. As part of that, I’ve updated the page that talks about my values, and I’ve also added a new item to my Resources page. It’s a guide called ‘Better… Read More »Better benefits
I was once told by a database engineer that every spreadsheet represented a failure by the organisation to provide appropriate tools. I’m far too much of a fence-sitter to give my unqualified agreement to that statement, but I definitely think he had a point worth considering – particularly for organisations hoping to reduce risk and… Read More »Do you really need that spreadsheet?
Pursuing the wrong projects can be disastrous for an organisation. In the first half of this article, I looked at the various reasons that organisations end up pursuing change initiatives that should never have been started, or that should have been abandoned in favour of other ideas. These reasons were grouped under the following three… Read More »Stop doing the wrong projects (part two)