Episode 25: Conflict resolution, mentoring by Barbara Davis

This is the first part of a my interview with Barbara Davis at http://www.e2consultinginc.com/

Time / Topic
01:04 Introducing my guest
03:25 Where did your BA career start?
05:15 Introducing conflict resolution in project teams
06:45 The meaning of assertiveness
07:19 Learning to say no to stakeholders
07:50 Requirements management in a 2-man company vs big corporate environment.
08:21 Organizing and structuring requirements on your network hard disk
11:00 Managing that "5,000 page requirements document"? You must be kiddin' me.
11:40 Enlightening realizations in your career
13:05 Horrible happenings is learning experiences
14:00 Asking for feedback from your team
14:50 Who was your BA mentor?
16:10 gaining a head start from a mentor
17:10 Don’t recruit fractures from college
18:15 Sharing experiences, helping one another. There's plenty for everyone!
19:00 Learning how to contribute back
19:40 How do you pick your mentor?
20:45 Advice on networking with previous mentors
22:10 University course for BAs
22:40 BA's struggles without CRRSP!

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CONTACT Barbara: http://www.e2consultinginc.com
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Duration: 32mins 01 seconds

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Episode 24: SCRUM, mentoring, RUP met Eric Lopes Cardozo

Going Dutch with Eric Lopes Cardoso of empulsys.com in The Netherlands.

The interview is in Nederlands for our listeners in both South Africa and Benelux.

Time / Topic
1:27 Vertel iets over jezelf bij empulsys.com
2:45 Introduceren concept coaching
4:00 Hoe gaat jullie teams mentoren?
4:58 mentor doet het voor als methode voor mentoring
6:30 Ontwikkel jezelf naar een functionele niveau
8:00 Hypnose en NLP als communicatie hulpmiddel
8:50 Het Rational User Group van Nederland
11:00 IT kennis in het Nederlands voor Nederlanders
12:25 Wat is volgens jou de definitie van niet-functionele eisen?
14:24 Kwalificerende beschrijvende woorden
15:30 Whitepaper iteratie planning
16:26 Betrek je team!
17:39 Overstappen van waterval naar iteratief ontwikkelen
20:50 SCRUM vs RUP
23:00 Praktijk van SCRUM

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CONTACT Eric Lopes Cardoso: http://empulsys.com
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Duration: 27mins 24 seconds

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Episode 012: mentoring and getting started with Alex Papworth

Feature interview: Alex Papworth

Alex is a BA with many years of experience in the financial services industry. He also provides coaching and mentoring to wannabe BA's. Let’s get some of his experiences!

In this podcast we discuss advantages of having a mentor, furthermore we separate the BA role from Project Management, Alex explains the difference in roles. Michiel enquires about the activities of a BA in a very small team versus large team.
Alex explains the advantages of IIBA certification and his involvement in the London chapter of the IIBA.
On the mentoring side we get some tips for moving from a software developer to BA-role. Its tough but can be done. Finally Alex gives a hint on his to be published e-Book and reveals how he combines work with being a mentor himself. Now it’s free to apply ?

Today's top tip is the Venture Voice (http://venturevoice.com) podcast featuring interviews with well known internet companies launched by courageous entrepeneurs. I learnt a LOT from listening to these sucessful people!

Contacting Alex Papworth: http://bamentor.com

Duration: 45mins 55 seconds
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