Author: JB
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Quoteworthy: Gustavus F. Swift
Don’t let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life. – Gustavus F. Swift
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Business Analyst “Blueprint for Success”
Alex Papworth has released a free e-book for new and prospective business analysts, entitled Blueprint for Success as a New Business Analyst.
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Communication: Are You the King, or a Guard?
In this scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the king is giving the guards orders to keep an eye on his son,…
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More on Separating Rules from Use Cases
Keeping business rules out of the flow of events makes a use case easier to maintain and reuse.
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Congratulations, You’re Ignorant!
The more we learn, the more we realize we don’t know.
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Passing Thoughts on Business Analysis II
A few more passing thoughts on business analysis.
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Use Case Basics: Keeping it Simple
A few simple tips for identifying and documenting use cases.
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Four Key Knowledge Areas for Business Analysts
Four key knowledge/capability domains that are especially important to the business analyst.
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The IIBA: Timely or Premature?
I picked up an interesting article by Joe Gollner this morning in my Google Alerts that seemed to call into question the need or…
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Thinking of Becoming a BA? Q&A with Laura Brandau
Laura and I chat about her new book on what it takes to become a business analyst.
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Escalation and Infinite Regression
Fancy words for pretty common ways simple projects can quickly morph into gargantuan ones.
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Could requirements analysis be automated?
Could systems and software be used to take the place of the requirements analyst?
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Structured Analysis & Big, Thick Documents
Great book on modeling & systems analysis and yet another critique of “big, thick documents.”