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My name is Oluwakorede Asuni – most people call me Olu’ and you may as well.

I work at the intersection of technology and society – helping businesses, non-profits and individuals craft and evolve their technology adoption (aka digital transformation) strategies.

For most of my career, I have worn multiple hats ranging from product manager, project/programme manager, business analyst and customer advocate.

I write regularly here, on facebook, twitter and on some of the most popular business analysis platforms out there. 

I hold the IIBA CBAPIIBA CPOAPMI PMP and ITIL Foundation, credentials. And I  recently completed an executive MBA at the University of Readings’ Henley Business School– where I my research explored Gamification for customer acquisition and retention in SMEs.

I publish a newsletter fortnightly, in which I explore thoughts, theories and developments across digital.

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Highlights

Should you get a business analysis certification?

In this short video I go over questions as: What are the factors you should consider in deciding whether or not to get a business analysis certification?
What certifications are fit for you, depending on factors like, your objectives, your career path to this point, your plans for the future.

Fundamentals of business analysis

Who are business analysts and what do they do? What are the tools of their trade?
Where do they work?
And how do you get started as a business analyst?
I attempt answers to some of these questions in this video.

Agile in a waterfall world

Can strict waterfall co-habit with agile? For example, can a business with legacy processes transform or begin to transform to one that is responsive to the rapidly changing demands of the market?
If yes, what are the thoughts and principles that we need to embrace. In this article, I explore why and how this is possible.

Videos

Recent Articles

Not too early

My passenger was bored two minutes into an 18 minutes drive. I tossed her the book I had taken along, as I had a 1 hour wait time at our destination, whilst she jumps on poles and straddles beams. I wasn’t expecting much of anything except to distract her for the rest of the drive and maybe ensure she doesn’t fall asleep during the drive. I asked her if she understood what she had read when we arrived. Her: No, daddy. Except that it is about numbers and facts. Me: That’s a good start. #AdukeDairies

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Playful: On calories

Dear Parliament, Having taken the time to evaluate my calorie consumption. And having noted that Saturdays are for parties and other fun activities which could induce consumption. And Sunday lunches are still a thing. I’d like to move the motion to abolish Saturday (and Sunday) calories. They should not count. They are likely to ruin the weekend if they continue to count. They could also seed doubt in one’s capabilities to be self-disciplined. I hope you give this motion some consideration and then vote right: which is to abolish weekend calories. Thank you! Honourable YaKoYo.

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Journey to fitness

November numbers are in. Not much of physical activities – as it turns out sprained ankles do take their time to heal.

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On Project Management and Product Management

The link to the video is at the bottom of the post. — Are there any significant differences between the disciplines of project management and product management? My opinion is that each is a well-established discipline, which goes beyond nomenclature and could at best be complementary. Project managers are professionals who oversee projects with the broad goal of seeing them achieve their stated objectives and deliver the goods from such efforts to the team that would operate them. Think of building a new stadium, a new hospital or a new product or product capability/feature.  On the other hand, product managers own the product from end to end – from visioning to alignment with organisational visions, objectives and strategy; to post-product release management and engagement with customers, management and other important stakeholders. Think of the stadium – its visibility to event organisers, its performance as an events destination, the cost of

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NASA shoots DART into Space

News: NASA DART space vehicle successfully collides with an asteroid 7 million Km in space (a distance 28 times that of the distance between the earth and its moon). NASA crafted this exercise to test man’s ability to redirect the path/orbit of an asteroid. Whilst this asteroid poses no challenge to the earth, the test is possibly the beginning of an interplanetary defence system, which would see earthlings fire shots (in the form of space vehicles) at errant space rocks whose path and that of the earth could potentially cross with disaster level outcomes, in the hope of altering the course of the meandering space rock. Me: NASA could be on to something here. Or they may have just won another ‘space’ medal. Conspiracy theorist: How do we know it happened? How do we know it wasn’t filmed in Area 51 and then broadcast live? Don’t we have evidence that

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Conversations: A live conversation and podcast series

Conversations is something I have wanted to do for some time. I am quite curious about a lot of things. I tinker with the thoughts of others by asking soul-searching questions of them. And I often leave comments on people’s opinions, social/economic/religious developments and whatever else crosses the path of my fancy. Oftentimes, these get lost within the platform where such was created. And one question is, is there a way to elevate this side of me? I mean is there a way to canonise this in some way or the other and make it available to more people than would chance on it on those platforms? I really do not have an answer. But I am prepared to tinker with a podcast and see how it goes. So, here is the plan: I will invite people I have banted with on social media to a live conversation With their

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Is it nurture? Is it nature? Sometimes, we would not know, and that’s good enough

General observation: Each time I travel, I bring with mementoes (usually inexpensive) gifts for each person in the household as well as friends and family. Something to tell them they were on my mind during my trip. My wife does the same. My closest friends do the same. I have observed my siblings do the same. Gap(s) in my observation: I don’t know if this is a general societal norm (because my friends and family don’t begin to approximate a significant sample size) of this observation. The (observational) experiement: #Abeke just returned from a few days away from home, and she brought her little sister a gift from her trip. It is her first solo trip – in a manner is speaking. Assessment: I couldn’t help but think, does it run in the blood (nature)? Or is it something she has picked up from the environment (nurture)? Conclusion: We may

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Never underestimate the power of, and the need for backups.

Good news: MacBook died suddenly in May. Had backup of all work and school files to date (Google Drive for Mac). Had a dated but still useful backup copy of system settings and ALL files on a local network drive (TimeMachine – a free, bundled into MacOS by Apple. There are alternatives for Windows and Linux). All web servers we rely on at OluwakoredeAsuni.com, are backed up incrementally every night and entire snapshots taken once a month. Good practice. Served me well. Bad news: You may not know the pain of not having a backup until you need it. As I did for a project that started off as experimental and grew some wings and I hadn’t bothered to back it up. You know, I planned to get to that, some day. Woke up that morning and life had happened to the project. And there is no backup. The manual

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