Notebook
Writing
Notes on business analysis, requirements, systems and design.
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Being a Generalist in Tech
Why breadth is its own kind of expertise, and why the industry's obsession with specialisation misses it.
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Stakeholder Mapping: The Wild West
A stakeholder mapping tool inspired by the host attribute matrix in Westworld.
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Building a Requirements Similarity Analyzer
Applying data, calculations and actions to build a tool that finds similar requirements across documents.
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Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize
Why business analysts should keep returning to ROI throughout a project, with a prototype calculator to help.
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EARS and Functional Thinking
How the Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax lines up with functional thinking to make requirements clear and testable.
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Scaling Organisations
Patterns in how organisations scale and specialise, read through evolutionary biology and systems theory.
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From Chaos to Clarity
What it took to turn a logistics company's fragmented data landscape into an integrated analytics platform.
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Grokking it!
Extending Robustness Diagrams with ideas from Grokking Simplicity to separate actions, calculations and data.
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Welcome
From doodles, to code, to product: an introduction to this notebook of posts on code and craft.
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My First Application
A phone directory for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and an early lesson that technically correct is not the same as usable.