Bruce Hohne

This week, our BAs had a test and they are waiting on their scope from their professor.  We have encouraged them to meet with their professor once they get their scope back so they can improve on their current […]

This week could have been more productive. The BAs had their first exam this past Tuesday and asked for our help Monday night. I believe they met up with at least one of the PMs to go over what could be on the […]

So far my team and I have been off to a slow start, but we are starting to come up with set times to keep our BAs on track.  Even though we have not met often, there is still great communication among all the […]

9/22-9/26

This week on Tuesday we met with our BAs to discuss their progress on the scope document. We reviewed the statement of purpose, objectives, assumptions and restraints. These meeting are proving to be effective because each time we meet with our BAs they have improve their document with the suggestion we have given them. For example the first time we met with them about the scope document we noticed that their objectives could be improve to reflect business objectives. We also said they should make the objectives business SMART objectives.

What does not seem to be working is how to motivate them to start playing around with Justinmind. When I was a BA I did not realize how important it was to play around with this program. We have stressed that it is very time involved and the sooner they learn the better. We will have to come up with another course of action when it comes to creating a sense of urgency for learning Justinmind.

This week my confidence in my team of BAs increased significantly. While meeting on Monday with the team to review interview questions, they seemed to be focused and motivated to learn as much as possible from the […]