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Article: Applied Project Management Capability: See the Forest and the Trees. By Lori Lindbergh, Ph.D.
Can you apply your project management skills and knowledge in your organization to achieve project success? Do your project outcomes meet the expectations of your project sponsor and stakeholders? If you answered “No” to these questions, you are most likely not alone. Despite the increasing use of project management best practices and the implementation of project management training and development programs, a large percentage of projects still fail. Find out why.
Article: Business Analysis Assessments: Is That What’s Happening in my Organization. By Lori Lindbergh, Ph.D.
Are you thinking about conducting a business analysis assessment? With so many consulting organizations offering business analyst competency assessments and business analysis practice maturity assessments, as a business professional, how do you know which one to choose and whether the findings of these assessments will accurately reflect the current states of your business analyst workforce and the BA practices in your organization? By asking these four important questions.
Article Series: Training Assessments That Work. By Lori Lindbergh, Ph.D.
You’ve most likely been assessed to death and have participated in a number of assessments that didn’t result in much action or create the changes promised. Training evaluation assessments are no exception. This article series is designed to help you get the most out of training evaluation assessments, regardless of when and how you use them, and ensure strong stakeholder support and participation. It’s not that assessments are a bad idea; it’s more about correctly identifying the purpose of the assessment, gathering stakeholder support and participation and establishing realistic expectations about how the findings should be interpreted in your workplace.
Article: Business Analysis Practice MaturityBy Kathleen "Kitty" Hass
Businesses are challenged with closing the gap in BA capabilities and competencies. What will it take? Are today’s business analysts up to the task? The journey begins with an acknowledgement that business analysis is a critical business management discipline for the 21st century. Realizing that it takes investment and resources to build a new business management process, our framework calls for a proven, structured approach coupled with expert change management skills.
Article: Business Analyst Proficiency: How Capable Do I Need To Be?By Kathleen “Kitty” Hass
What is the root cause of our continued inability to deliver new business solutions faultlessly that hit the mark and add significant business benefit? Many experts have made the case that it is our gap in business analysis and complexity management capabilities that is the root. Assessing the capabilities of your BA workforce will provide the foundation organizations need to improve performance and achieve business value.
Book: From Analyst to Leader: Elevating the Role of the Business Analyst.Lori Lindbergh is a contributing author for this book available for purchase at Amazon.
