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Business Analyst Humor

Enjoy some business analyst and software development humor for a mental health break.

When business analysts become a bottleneck

October 2, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

This topic deserves a full post, but until then enjoy this Dilbert.

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Friday Flips: Dilbert on project stakeholders

April 17, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Good thing most business stakeholders aren’t this tough…..

Many thanks to the IAG Twitter feed for referring me to this new Dilbert.

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Friday Flip: The difference between IT and Business Leaders

January 23, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Great little story brought to us by “The Bridger” in the UK about An IT Guy and a Balloonist. A nice and comical reminder on how different leadership styles, especially those between business and IT leaders, can create unnecessary conflict.

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Friday Flip: Alistair Cockburn quote about user stories and use cases

January 16, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

“[A] user story is to a use case as a gazelle is to a gazebo.”  Nicely put.
And just in case, like me, you need a definition of gazelle, it’s a type of antelope.  I guess I can imagine a gazelle wandering into an antelope from time to time, but this sight would stir up more [...]

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Friday Flips: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

January 9, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Many thanks to Twitter collaborater @lorenbaxter for retweeting this link!  Fun video that challenges our notions of information technology usability (and may expose your latent trust for all things Apple).

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Creative Quotes for your New Years Resolutions

January 2, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg
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Friday Flips: Requirements, Requirements, Requirements!

December 19, 2008 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Thanks to the “UML Guy” for this clip and to Jonathan Babcock for introducing me to his blog.

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Friday Flips: Software usability as compared to driving a stick shift

December 12, 2008 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Key quip: “People don’t want to use your software, they want to have used your software”.

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Friday Flips: A laugh at the expense of the SDLC

December 5, 2008 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Another great video clip. Pictures are worth a thousand words!

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Friday Flips: “I deal with the customers” from Office Space

November 28, 2008 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

I’ve always loved this clip from Office Space.  It’s a great metaphor for business analysis work, just make sure you are adding a great deal of value along the way and that you really do have “people skills”!
Apologies for the horrible quality…I guess my last clip cut deleted from YouTube….

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