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Steve Blais

Attending the right meetings and avoiding unnecessary ones

by Steve Blais on July 12, 2010 · 5 comments

in Effective Meetings,Engaging Project Leaders

Anne, a young business analyst for a financial company in New York, arrived late for the meeting.  I had been at the company for two days of a week long engagement and had been attending meetings most of the time.  This was the third meeting that Anne and I both attended and the third time [...]

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Business Analyst Rights and Empowerment

by Steve Blais on April 29, 2010 · 6 comments

in Managing Business Analysts,Marketing your value

I was surprised again recently when a group of business analysts complained to me that the project manager was upset with them for spending extra time defining the business processes they were working on. The project manager wanted to know where the requirements were so that he could get his technical people at work on [...]

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The Janus Relationship as a model for how business analysts and project managers can work together

by Steve Blais on February 24, 2010 · 1 comment

in BA-PM Relationship

In Roman mythology the god of gates and doors is Janus.  In his capacity as god of doorways, he is also the god of beginnings and endings and was used by the ancient Romans to symbolize change and transitions, and the launch of new enterprises.  Romans placed statues of Janus near a doorway or paintings [...]

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