Week 8 - Managing BA Projects and Agile Methods Flashcards
(23 cards)
What does DT stand for?
Design thinking
What is design thinking?
A human-centered approach to problem-solving that emphasises empathy, creativity, and experimentation
How is design thinking relevant to analytics?
In two key shifts:
First shift - new modes of innovation demand collective and user-oriented problem-solving
Second shift - IT innovations, including analytics, require to be embedded into biz activities
How can DT be used?
As a:
-product development tool
-change management framework
What are the 3 main barriers to biz innovation?
-strategic
-technological
-organisational
What role does DT play in overcoming innovation barriers as a product development tool?
helps overcome technological barriers and connects strategic intent with organisational execution by focusing on user needs and cross-functional collaboration
Many companies and product teams are jumping right
into product strategies that start with ML as a solution and skip over …..
focusing on a meaningful problem to solve
If you aren’t
aligned with the human needs, you’re just going to …..
build a very
powerful system to address a very small or perhaps nonexistent problem
What role does DT play in overcoming barriers as a change management framework?
It helps organisations align strategic goals, technology, and structures to enable user-centred, collaborative change
What is bimodal?
practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work
What are the two styles of work in bimodal?
Mode 1- optimised for predictable areas and exploiting what is known
Mode 2- exploratory and experiments to solve new problems in areas of uncertainty
What are the 3 critical dimensions of a project?
― End point (notion of time)
― Some degree of novelty (notion of non-routine)
― Something is delivered (notion of deliverable
What determines how to manage projects?
― The nature of deliverable
― The nature of business context (including stakeholder/market)
― The nature of project team (skills, knowledge, etc)
What are the two types of problems that needs to be solved?
― clear (final deliverables can be mostly pre-designed)
― It is rather blurred
What is the iron triangle?
illustrates the three competing constraints that every project must balance
What are the three constraints of the iron traingle?
-time
-cost
-scope
What do the iron triangle constraints determine?
Quality
What determines the scope of a project?
The problem
Difference between traditional and agile projects management?
Traditional more a waterfall where once you have done the first tasks move on to next stage, whereas agile are ongoing until you reach the preliminary outcome and then you move on
What is the iron triangle paradigm shift?
traditional: problem is well-defined, scope is fixed
agile: problem is unclear, scope is estimated
What are the two foundational mindsets that Design Thinking brings to Agile methods?
Experiential and Experimental.
What does the experiential mindset in design thinking mean?
Considering how products or services relate to real human lives.
What does the experimental mindset in design thinking mean?
Recognising that problems aren’t fully defined at the start and must be explored through iteration.
