Comments on: Should the BA scribe at a team meeting? http://www.b2ttraining.com/2009/08/04/should-the-ba-scribe-at-a-team-meeting/ Connecting Business Requirements to Technology Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:15:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Angie http://www.b2ttraining.com/2009/08/04/should-the-ba-scribe-at-a-team-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-3769 Angie Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:12:49 +0000 http://www.b2ttraining.com/?p=1651#comment-3769 Laura and Declan - thank you for your contributions. Laura - Yes, I find a decisions log invaluable. Declan - I agree when I am trying to capture business analysis information it is difficult to also be the scribe. I love your comment about teaching other members on the principles of being a good scribe. Laura and Declan – thank you for your contributions.

Laura – Yes, I find a decisions log invaluable.

Declan – I agree when I am trying to capture business analysis information it is difficult to also be the scribe. I love your comment about teaching other members on the principles of being a good scribe.

]]> By: Declan Chellar http://www.b2ttraining.com/2009/08/04/should-the-ba-scribe-at-a-team-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-3759 Declan Chellar Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:40:26 +0000 http://www.b2ttraining.com/?p=1651#comment-3759 I prefer not to act as the scribe if I am the lead BA in a meeting, Angie, simply because like most people (despite corporate propaganda), when I multi-task, I don't do any of the tasks the full justice they deserve. However, as you observed about yourself, I find I am a better scribe than most colleagues. When I do persuade a PM to assign a scribe to the meeting so that I can focus on being the BA, I find I have to re-write the notes before they are issued. This is not just because the scribe has often left out key points while detailing irrelevancies that cropped up during the meeting, but also because of the poor standard of English used. I find, therefore, that part of my role as a senior BA is to teach other members of the team (not just the BA team, but the whole project team) how to scribe well. Kind regards, Declan I prefer not to act as the scribe if I am the lead BA in a meeting, Angie, simply because like most people (despite corporate propaganda), when I multi-task, I don’t do any of the tasks the full justice they deserve.

However, as you observed about yourself, I find I am a better scribe than most colleagues. When I do persuade a PM to assign a scribe to the meeting so that I can focus on being the BA, I find I have to re-write the notes before they are issued. This is not just because the scribe has often left out key points while detailing irrelevancies that cropped up during the meeting, but also because of the poor standard of English used.

I find, therefore, that part of my role as a senior BA is to teach other members of the team (not just the BA team, but the whole project team) how to scribe well.

Kind regards,

Declan

]]> By: Laura http://www.b2ttraining.com/2009/08/04/should-the-ba-scribe-at-a-team-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-3755 Laura Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:58:17 +0000 http://www.b2ttraining.com/?p=1651#comment-3755 Great comments! I've often replaced meeting-by-meeting notes with a "decisions log" that captures the key decisions and rationale, as you mention. This can be added to over the series of several meetings and reduces some of the overhead associated with detailed meeting notes for each meeting. You lose a bit of value in terms of who was where, when, etc, but you gain some efficiencies. In organizations with high trust that just need a collective memory, a decisions log can do the trick. I also often maintain an "issues log" to keep track of open issues that need to be addressed. More on that here: http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/the-issues-list/ Laura Great comments! I’ve often replaced meeting-by-meeting notes with a “decisions log” that captures the key decisions and rationale, as you mention. This can be added to over the series of several meetings and reduces some of the overhead associated with detailed meeting notes for each meeting. You lose a bit of value in terms of who was where, when, etc, but you gain some efficiencies. In organizations with high trust that just need a collective memory, a decisions log can do the trick. I also often maintain an “issues log” to keep track of open issues that need to be addressed. More on that here: http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/the-issues-list/

Laura

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