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BP have been subject to scorn and rage over the past few weeks, and rightly so. Of course, inane comments attributed to BP CEO, Tony Hayward, have not helped. “The environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest.” Unless you live in Louisiana or Florida, that is. “I want my life […] A friend told me the other day that at a company meeting, the directors of the company brought up the subject of work-life balance. It seems they were getting tired of the scales being tipped strongly in favour of work. The CEO’s response? May 3rd, 2010 | Tags: life, working life | Category: General | Leave a comment Yesterday I had an online chat with a friend and the subject quickly turned to work stress and bullying. My friend gave me permission to reproduce the chat on my blog, so here it is, abridged, with some further comments inserted by me afterwards for your benefit. Such comments appear in […] I am fond of System Use Cases as a tool for documenting functional requirements, but I am not a big fan of use case specifications. I find the textual specifications result in the kind of weighty documents that everyone hates reviewing and I continue to be amazed that so many analysts […] Every project needs the perspective of Demetri Martin. Jokes.com Demetri Martin – Findings comedians.comedycentral.com Futurama New Episodes Funny Demon Zombie TV Show Funny TV Comedy Blog […] I am a great believer in facing up to reality, regardless of the pain involved. I don’t know whether it is my experience as a senior business analyst or my character or both that causes me to step in from time to time and say: “Stop! Time for a reality check!” April 14th, 2010 | Tags: adding value, business practice, humour, leadership, working life | Category: General | Leave a comment Which of the following two profiles do you think matches what a leader should be and which matches what leaders generally are in reality? Profile A Profile B Is likely to be male. Has a “Can do” attitude, to the extent that he never challenges the status quo. Makes promises based on aspirations and expects […] Hands up anyone who has been invited to a meeting, spent an hour or more listening to someone drone on (or worse, sat through Death by Powerpoint), only to wonder why you had been invited in the first place. Oh, look! All of you. MS Outlook allows you to indicate whether […] Many of you reading this will not know that in addition to being a business analyst, I am also an aspiring writer. On a recent business trip, I began writing a log of my journey, as it turned out to be not as straightforward as I would have liked. I had […] A visitor to my blog commented on the post “No favourites” saying that her solution to the problem of being asked multiple security questions (none of which might apply) is to use a single word as the answer to all such questions. So no matter whether they ask what your favourite […] |