Visionate Academy https://visionateacademy.com/ Learn, Practice, Master, Win Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:58:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://i0.wp.com/visionateacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-AcademyIcon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Visionate Academy https://visionateacademy.com/ 32 32 178188773 Clear Communication: Reducing Cognitive Load https://visionateacademy.com/blog/consulting/clear-communication-reducing-cognitive-load/ Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:46:27 +0000 https://visionateacademy.com/?p=533544 Learn how to reduce cognitive load in communication with clear, structured messaging. Discover tips, frameworks, and examples to improve clarity and comprehension for your audience.

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]]> 533544 Beyond the Surface: Mastering Consulting https://visionateacademy.com/blog/beyond-the-surface-mastering-consulting/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:55:26 +0000 https://visionateacademy.com/?p=533451 When entering the consulting profession, a common challenge emerges, regardless of our specialization. This challenge revolves around a tendency to provide quick responses to client inquiries without thoroughly exploring the underlying issues. This surface-level approach can result in client frustration and extended searches for more substantial solutions. This approach also reflects poorly on us and […]

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]]> 533451 Setting up a Project in Clickup https://visionateacademy.com/blog/setting-up-a-project-in-clickup/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:42:41 +0000 https://visionateacademy.com/?p=532613 Use Visionate Academy’s full-project-loadout template to set your entire project up in Clickup with just a few keystrokes! Get backlog management, Risks and Issues, Defect Tracking, Stakeholder management, and Decisions and change log. Suits Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall! Did you know that Clickup provides a facility that lets user save their setups as templates that […]

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]]> 532613 Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) Prioritization in ClickUp https://visionateacademy.com/blog/wsjf-prioritization-in-clickup/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:37:35 +0000 https://visionateacademy.com/?p=532567 Learn how to use Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) Prioritization in ClickUp with an efficient and data-driven template for prioritizing diverse project tasks. Achieve optimum value, avoid conflicts, and make well-informed decisions while gaining stakeholder goodwill

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]]> 532567 The Daily Scrum – Better questions https://visionateacademy.com/blog/the-daily-scrum-better-questions/ https://visionateacademy.com/blog/the-daily-scrum-better-questions/#respond Tue, 20 Jun 2023 08:45:09 +0000 https://visionateacademy.com/?p=527653 The daily stand-up (or daily scrum) is an agile event that encompasses multiple parts of the Lean concept of Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (The Shewhart Cycle). So what is it for? It is a check in with the rest of the team In PDCA this is known as Check, in agile it is known as Inspect; both naming […]

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]]> 528054 Visionate document linker drives productivity and quality https://visionateacademy.com/toolkits-for-disciplines/visionate-hot-linker-drives-productivity-and-quality/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:42:13 +0000 https://visionateacademy.com/?p=528221 Documentation principles The Visionate approach to documentation is based on principles designed to support the Lean-Agile-DevOps concepts of enabling the effective flow of work through the system, and the shortening and amplifying of feedback loops. An element of this is to have standards-based approaches to documentation with a separation between the process elements which describe […]

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]]> 528221 AP- Simple Test Case Management https://visionateacademy.com/lean-agile/ap-simple-test-case-management/ https://visionateacademy.com/lean-agile/ap-simple-test-case-management/#respond Tue, 05 Apr 2022 22:40:58 +0000 https://visionateacademy.com/?p=527694 Why might we need to manage test cases? In a well resourced project or system, the roles for Quality Assurance will be established and operating well. But sometimes we find ourselves in situations where we do not have formal support from Quality Assurance roles, or where there is not an organizational tool available that can […]

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