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How Can a Business Analyst Help You?
Sometimes project stakeholders I work for or with aren’t familiar with the role or the value of the business analyst. I’ve posted about Karl…
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Finding a Home for Business Analysts
Is the role of business analyst an IT role, a business role, or both? How can the BA role be used to the greatest…
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Business Analysts: Domain Experts or Generalists?
Is a BA more or less effective when also an expert in the business and technology domains?
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Excellent Resources for Business Analysts
Thinking of trying your hand at business analysis? Already a BA, and want to find information that will help you hone your skills? Just…
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You Know It’s Getting Deep When..
I really enjoyed Chris Woodill’s collection of “weasel words” that IT delivery folks will use to buy time, deflect responsibility, or describe a situation…
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McDonald’s Burgers and High-Quality Business Analysts
What can business analysts learn about quality from McDonald’s?
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Meeting Agenda as Catalyst?
What are leading reasons for unproductive review sessions of project deliverables? One comes quickly to mind for me – how about when 90% of…
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Planning a Successful Review Meeting, Part I
Holding requirement specification reviews is an activity that is critical to ensuring the quality of your deliverables. Review meetings aren’t typically “fun”, but they…
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It's Good to be a Business Analyst
The Business Analyst role is a good one – if you’re interested in climbing the rungs of the organizational ladder. At least that’s the…
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Design for Use and Reuse
One way IT factories can really hurt themselves and their companies is by underemphasizing, or not considering at all the notion that systems and…
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The REAL Development Lifecycle?
Ok, time for something light. This is funny stuff. Forget the phases or iterations – THIS is how the development lifecycle really plays out……
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More Analysis Paralysis
Breaking out of analysis paralysis doesn’t require you to lower your standards, or to aim lower than you would otherwise. It just requires some…
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Weaknesses of E-mail Communication
E-mail is a great communication medium, but it is not without its weaknesses.
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Advantages of E-mail Communication
Here are just a few benefits of communicating via the most popular application on the Internet.
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Curing Analysis Paralysis
You’ve poured your heart and soul into drafting the perfect requirements specification. You’ve checked, doubled checked, and triple checked every syllable of the document…