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To certify or not to certify, that is the question. I certainly have my own perspectives on the topic, but I thought I’d take the question on the road to see what others have to say about their certification pursuits and how it has or hasn’t helped them. I interviewed two Project Management Professional (PMP)® […]

The following questions were asked by participants in our recent webinar, BA Guide to Essential Agile Techniques, which is now available as an on demand recording. Keep reading this post for answers to our participants’  great questions! Themes & Epics Sounds to me like themes and epics could really be interchanged under certain circumstances. This is confusing me somewhat! Would

Comments on this post are closed.  To see questions and answers about this presentation or to ask you own questions for the author, please visit the Q&A post.  In our February 13 webinar presentation, BA Guide to Essential Agile Techniques, we delved into following topics that are essential for an Agile team member with BA skills. Vision

In all of our business analysis training classes, we usually cover the importance of relationships in doing BA work. They are key to us delivering products that the business values and can put to use. Quick – which is the most important relationship you have in your work as a BA? The PM or Scrum

Watermark Learning is excited to announce that this month (January 2015) we are expanding our PMP Certification Prep into a 4-day PMP Certification Boot Camp that will provide all 35 required contact hours for the PMP exam! The first class will be held as both virtual (live online) and in-person options starting January 26, 2015.

Update: This article was the #1 viewed article on BA Times and the #3 viewed article on Project Times for 2015. Each year we like to reflect on what’s happened in the business analysis, project management, and Agile professions and make our predictions for the upcoming year. To summarize the trends we saw in 2014: Continued excitement

You may have seen the TV commercial for a credit card company with the tag line “What’s missing from your wallet?” Well, with all due respect, I’d like to tweak that line to ask “What’s missing from your business cases?” My wife Elizabeth and I gave a tutorial on business cases at the most recent

If you struggle with a lack of sustained discipline in your project change control practice, one opportunity may be to clarify the distinction between controlling performance and managing change. As we move through a project, two types of triggers prompt us to reach for that change management plan and tap into our change control process.