User Stories – a condiment for success in delivery efforts
What: ‘User Stories’ is intended to break business requirements into their most basic unit, stating what is needed, by an actor, in other for an action to be completed. They generally follow the format below: <user> needs (MUST, COULD, WOULD) to be able to <Action> because <Reason> Why: Useful mostly in (pseudo-)agile delivery environments where […]
I am not associated with Mr. Olalekan Oshunkoya’s the ‘a for the many’ project
[This disclaimer was first published on the 18th December 2018, on facebook. It is accessible at this link: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156245822163235&id=601038234] Hello World – Kindly note that I am not a collaborator or supporter of the ‘a Nigeria for the Many’ project being touted by one Mr. Olalekan Oshunkoya. It came to my attention last week Monday, 11 […]
Readings
So the MBA imposes a lot of readings on every subject making up the programme. My career ambitions places similar impositions on me. Whilst some of my writings are not meant for immediate public consumption given that the data making up my work are often privileged and meant for the public – at least for […]
Ilé tí a bá fi ito mo
Originally posted to OrderPaper.NG, the premier digital publication connection citizens of Nigeria with their representatives in parliament. However, reproduced below with slight modifications based on a discussion between some respectable users of the Yoruba language here on my facebook timeline. Growing up, my father taught me to read and write the Yoruba language, in as […]
When marketing becomes strategy (or a key strategic pillar) – the case of Cialis’ challenge of Viagra’s market
The strategic question for Lilly Icos was whether it could influence how physicians perceived the importance of the criteria (longer lasting effects). The positioning was hotly debated prior to launch: Should the company centre its marketing strategy on Cialis’s lack of side effects, given that safety was already one of the two key criteria (met […]
Business analysts are not professional scribes
It is easy to reduce business analysts to scribes – those human recorders who type out the dictates of business into a business approved template. Which is then signed off by business and forced down IS/IT’s throat for implementation and all the other good things that happen in downstream. But is that really the function […]
What if I have been had?
So I took my bicycle in for service earlier today and the experience left me wondering. The technician accepted the bicycle and then told me to leave my name and phone number on a piece of paper, so he can call me tomorrow when the bike is ready for collection. There is No records of […]
Nigeria, ‘our journey is long’
I have read with some concern the news that the Nigeria Labour Congress (the NLC) is picketing MTN Nigeria and may have damaged equipment and facilities at some of the businesses locations in the country and even threatened staff and may have caused physical injury directly or otherwise to some staff of the corporation – […]
Of forged certificates, criminal political class and docile citizenry
First appeared in the OrderPaper.Ng The Nigeria political space is a theatre of absurdities. Absurdities at a level that will be unbelievable, albeit unconceivable to those from climes dubbed developed democracies. What with a President who seem to have been asleep for the better part of the three years he has been in office for; and […]
From ‘calling to action’ to getting ‘the action’ – automate as much as you can and reduce attrition
I see some facebook Ads (I won’t be surprised if the same happens across channels open to these ‘culprits’), asking users to make a phone call and listing a name and a telephone number to call. That is so paper age – remember the days we are handed fliers in traffic and we have to […]