This post if from our PMI-PBA Business Analysis Certification course. Start training today! This is a simplified nautical explanation of Decision Trees to help represent some of the features that PMI and/or IIBA reference when they’re taking about decision trees. We’ll go a little further into this. The concept is that you’re going to … Continue reading Decision Trees in Business Analysis PMI-PBA (Fast Food vs Fine Dining?)
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Go/No-Go Decisions in Business Analysis and Project Management
This post if from our PMI-PBA Business Analysis Certification course. Start training today! Go/No-Go decisions is an important consideration for a Business Analysts. It can happen in any project life cycle, but more likely, it’s going to happen in a project life cycle that’s predictive, or one where there are incremental phases or stages. We’re … Continue reading Go/No-Go Decisions in Business Analysis and Project Management
PMXPO Project Management 2015 Virtual Global Congress – Recap
One long, fruitful day. 6.5 PDU’s. New insight into the direction of PMI and the world of project management. I attended Projectmanagement.com’s 2015 virtual Global Congress yesterday (April 30, 2015). Admittedly skepticism led to event attendance. Would sitting in front of a monitor for ten hours listening to virtual/remote delivery of project management content be … Continue reading PMXPO Project Management 2015 Virtual Global Congress – Recap
PMI Global Congress 2014 Recap
If you were at the 2014 PMI Global Congress in Phoenix last week, you probably don’t have time to read this blog. You are in the field becoming a world changer! The theme Progressive Learning played throughout the week as attendees gained insight, enhanced skills, and learned new approaches toward achieving project success. Day one … Continue reading PMI Global Congress 2014 Recap
Getting ready for the PMP Exam: Rent versus Buy
In a recent blog, Getting ready for the PMP Exam: Contract Risk, I addressed relative procurement risk and the selection of contract types. Within that blog I compared the initiation of procurement with the initiation of a project. In our PMPC preparation course, I regularly emphasize the integration with other knowledge areas and insight that … Continue reading Getting ready for the PMP Exam: Rent versus Buy
Ten ways to be a more valuable Business Analyst
In many of the business analysis courses I teach, I’ve found a common reason people come to training, the number one question I get is, “how do I add value to the organization as a BA?” Expectations vary, but at a minimum, organizations expect some common functions from business analysts. First, a BA is primarily … Continue reading Ten ways to be a more valuable Business Analyst
ITIL – Building a Service Catalog in 4 steps, Part 3
In the first two parts of this blog series, we reviewed the four steps we used to deploy and manage our first Service Catalog. Part 1: Get something out there. Step 1. Part 2: Refine the information. Steps 2 and 3. Now I’d like to outline some key takeaways that might help. Step 4. Once … Continue reading ITIL – Building a Service Catalog in 4 steps, Part 3
ITIL and COBIT Presentation at TI2011 by Mark Thomas
Below are links to download the ITIL / COBIT sessions presented by Mark Thomas at Interface Tech Immersion 2011. Mark Thomas is the Director of Business Services at Interface Technical training. Session 1: Agile Presenter: Mark Thomas Are you a victim of building the wrong solutions slowly? If so, you're not alone, and considering an Agile … Continue reading ITIL and COBIT Presentation at TI2011 by Mark Thomas