What is Agile?
As you can imagine, we get the question, what is Agile, a lot at Storm Consulting. So, here we go. Agile is a movement started in 2001 by 17 software professionals; smart people like...
Author: Russ Lewis
Accidental Learning
As a panelist at a recent conference we were asked about continuous professional development CPD. I felt that some people are naturally pre-disposed to learning and will do naturally. Since the audience comprised paying...
Customers are always right, but shouldn’t be made to pay a price of “being right”
What the customer asks you to do, is not necessarily what they want you to do We all know the expression “the customer is always right”, well in many environments I’ve worked in that maxim is followed so...
C# Language Specification 5.0 Installed with Visual Studio 2012
The Definitive C# Document The C# language specification document has always been an excellent (and free) resource, useful for learning the language and supporting it. It’s well-written with clear examples and includes some of...
This is Agile Project Management, and it’s not about software
Agile is only for Small Software Projects – Myth Busted! Joe Justice tells the story of how he applied Agile (Lean and Scrum) project management techniques to achieve the impossible. When the audience realises that he...
British Pub Menu Notation (Funny BPMN) BA Humour
Having fun on the Intro to Business Analysis course We had attendees from “the Nordics” (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland, Middle East, Africa and the UK. Everyone was happy to contribute and participate, so everything...
UML / BPMN Reference Charts
When I teach BPMN I like to hand out this poster BPMN-2 Poster as reference. I particularly like the way the “Berliner BPM-Offensive” describes the use of the gateways: When splitting…. When joining… You can get the...
Agile Business Analysis Course – Pilot Run in LA
Last month we ran the beta of Learning Tree’s brand new course for BAs in Los Angeles. It was originally called Business Analysis in an Agile environment, then we decided to change it...
