Avoid These Ten Common Resume Writing Mistakes Next Time

Re-publishing the original article published at JobsFeeder.com for the informational purposes of the viewers of my personal blog. Preparing a winning resume found to be daunting task for many and it needs couple of day’s effort to make it fine-tuned to deliver the correct impression to its audience. Your resume delivers the first impression about yourself to recruiters when assessing whether you are a good fit for their organization or not. When preparing a resume, it’s easy to make mistakes. Once you make a mistake it’s exceptionally difficult to repair the damage once an employer gets it. Therefore prevention of following common...

If Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Larry Page & Steve Jobs were Sri Lankans

Warren Buffett (L) speaks while seated beside Microsoft founder Bill Gates (R) at the opening of a new Dairy Queen. As a thirteen year old kid I queried my then science teacher, "can’t we use the running trains to produce electricity". My question was based on few things; I saw the dynamos attached to foot cycles generating little electricity to lit front lamp Heard that hydro power plants too generating the electricity in a same manner Most of the Sri Lankan trains ran with either one or two diesel powered engines with 6 – 12 passenger cars by that time, my whole idea was to attach a super efficient dynamos to these cars and generate...

Do you beleive "Agile" for everything?

Agile? Agility? Scrum? Hmm… These are the words in most of the software professionals’ mouth in these days… Better to know what it is and how to apply it… Else story would be similar to this… I still feel that people should know when to apply agile concepts and when it should not… Just see the video… You can get an idea about the whole point… Lets start the conversation trail from there onwards…. ...

BAs Adding Value to Projects

Nice article. Decided to share it with my friends. Especially with the those who willing to pursue a career in Business Analysis, Consultancy and Testing.  Written by Ian Partridge  I'm sure there must be a thesis somewhere on this question: How do you know whether a specific decision or action definitely influences the actual event? I like soccer analogies - in a pre-World Cup game against Argentina, Sven-Goran Eriksson then manager of the English national team, was praised for his tactical decision to bring on Peter Crouch and the 3-2 victory that resulted....

Are we gathering or eliciting the requirements?

Most of the BAs using the term "Gathering" against the requirements. The exact term is "Requirements gathering". While reading some articles, found an interesting article on the "Requirements gathering". Here the author is arguing against the term gathering. According to Jill Liles we are not gathering but eliciting the requirements.This was on the BA Times web site. I am adding it my blog post to save your time from log in to BA Times and search for the same.Methods for Eliciting - Not Gathering - RequirementsWritten by Jill LilesThe word "gather" does not truly communicate the nature of the Business Analyst's (BA) job. You do not gather requirements-they...