Comments for Redvespa. Your business analysis partner http://redvespa.com Your business analysis partner Fri, 18 May 2012 01:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Knowledge isn’t everything by Jay http://redvespa.com/2012/05/knowledge-isnt-everything/#comment-314 Jay Fri, 18 May 2012 01:37:43 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=2315#comment-314 Very good point you raise Hari. Certainly there will be occasions where domain knowledge is an essential role requirement. What I’m suggesting is that BA’s shouldn’t count themselves out of roles because they lack the ‘desired’ industry or domain knowledge. To flip your question around, should employers risk passing on a good BA if they don’t have that domain knowledge? Very good point you raise Hari. Certainly there will be occasions where domain knowledge is an essential role requirement. What I’m suggesting is that BA’s shouldn’t count themselves out of roles because they lack the ‘desired’ industry or domain knowledge. To flip your question around, should employers risk passing on a good BA if they don’t have that domain knowledge?

]]> Comment on 500 Awesome things about being a BA by Ieuan http://redvespa.com/2012/02/500-awesome-things-about-being-a-ba/#comment-312 Ieuan Fri, 18 May 2012 01:06:37 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=1992#comment-312 I like fixing things for people. We get to fix some of the most interesting problems. I like fixing things for people. We get to fix some of the most interesting problems.

]]> Comment on Knowledge isn’t everything by Hari http://redvespa.com/2012/05/knowledge-isnt-everything/#comment-311 Hari Thu, 17 May 2012 01:24:06 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=2315#comment-311 Entering a greenfield domain with generic BA skills might not be an issue in solution space. However it may not hold true in enterprise analysis. Domain knowledge over google at best just gives a superficial input. It is dangerous to know wrong than not knowing at all. In that sense yes, no domain knowledge is better. Why would clients pick someone who will learn the skills on the job while there is someone who already has a background with comparable skills? Entering a greenfield domain with generic BA skills might not be an issue in solution space. However it may not hold true in enterprise analysis. Domain knowledge over google at best just gives a superficial input. It is dangerous to know wrong than not knowing at all. In that sense yes, no domain knowledge is better. Why would clients pick someone who will learn the skills on the job while there is someone who already has a background with comparable skills?

]]> Comment on Ignoring complexity is not simplicity by Hari http://redvespa.com/2012/04/ignoring-complexity-is-not-simplicity/#comment-303 Hari Tue, 08 May 2012 21:03:25 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=2211#comment-303 What do EA feel about complexity? It is my belief that enterprise architecture must propose and help build solutions that are simple, yet can evolve and be fulling exploited as business demands change" Read further here: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zen/archive/2012/05/07/modernizing-the-enterprise-address-the-neurosis-of-it.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zen/archive/2012/05/07/modernizing-the-enterprise-address-the-neurosis-of-it.aspx</a> What do EA feel about complexity? It is my belief that enterprise architecture must propose and help build solutions that are simple, yet can evolve and be fulling exploited as business demands change” Read further here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zen/archive/2012/05/07/modernizing-the-enterprise-address-the-neurosis-of-it.aspx

]]> Comment on Ignoring complexity is not simplicity by Hari http://redvespa.com/2012/04/ignoring-complexity-is-not-simplicity/#comment-302 Hari Tue, 08 May 2012 20:05:53 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=2211#comment-302 Complexity forces IT to change its role. Find out how here: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-strategy/the-it-paradox-diminished-role-in-technology-greater-clout-in-the-business-192559?page=0,0 Complexity forces IT to change its role. Find out how here: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-strategy/the-it-paradox-diminished-role-in-technology-greater-clout-in-the-business-192559?page=0,0

]]> Comment on 500 Awesome things about being a BA by Rebecca http://redvespa.com/2012/02/500-awesome-things-about-being-a-ba/#comment-278 Rebecca Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:49:22 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=1992#comment-278 I love the variety, working with so many different people, the fact that the skills are transferrable to any industry sector and that you get to draw stickman diagrams on whiteboards! I love the variety, working with so many different people, the fact that the skills are transferrable to any industry sector and that you get to draw stickman diagrams on whiteboards!

]]> Comment on Ignoring complexity is not simplicity by Hari http://redvespa.com/2012/04/ignoring-complexity-is-not-simplicity/#comment-277 Hari Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:22:21 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=2211#comment-277 Here is an article from April edition of HBR that talks about simplicity. It is written by Walter Isaccson on Apple\Jobs philosophy. http://hbr.org/2012/04/the-real-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs/ar/2 Here is an article from April edition of HBR that talks about simplicity. It is written by Walter Isaccson on Apple\Jobs philosophy.

http://hbr.org/2012/04/the-real-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs/ar/2

]]> Comment on Ignoring complexity is not simplicity by Hari http://redvespa.com/2012/04/ignoring-complexity-is-not-simplicity/#comment-273 Hari Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:24:32 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=2211#comment-273 Excerpt from Ken Seagall's new book on simplicity Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success. http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/04/02/new-insight-into-how-steve-jobs-thought-different/ Excerpt from Ken Seagall’s new book on simplicity
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/04/02/new-insight-into-how-steve-jobs-thought-different/

]]> Comment on Redvespa Pulse by David Morris – Redvespa BA Consultant, Auckland New Zealand http://redvespa.com/what-we-do/redvespa-pulse-business-analysis-practice-management/#comment-265 David Morris – Redvespa BA Consultant, Auckland New Zealand Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:18:03 +0000 http://redvespa.jamesmacfie.com/?page_id=586#comment-265 [...] Link with more details about “Pulse” [...] [...] Link with more details about “Pulse” [...]

]]> Comment on Say it with numbers… by Hari http://redvespa.com/2011/10/metrics-dna-of-ba/#comment-263 Hari Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:48:05 +0000 http://redvespa.com/?p=1732#comment-263 Thanks (rather belated) for your feedback David. And I agree with your sentiments for finding the balance. The intent of the blog is indeed to tilt the business analysis focus back to "problem-solving" against "people-solving". Thanks (rather belated) for your feedback David. And I agree with your sentiments for finding the balance. The intent of the blog is indeed to tilt the business analysis focus back to “problem-solving” against “people-solving”.

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