Category: Business Analysis
General discussion of the business analyst role, key skills and tricks of the trade.
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Business Analysis Can Kill a Project (In a Good Way)
Scrapping an ill-fated project before it gets started can be as valuable as seeing a project through to successful implementation.
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Passing Thoughts on Business Analysis II
A few more passing thoughts on business analysis.
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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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Patterns and the Evolving Business Analyst
Let’s focus on what I consider the capstone to development and “evolution” as an analyst; the ability to learn, recognize and apply patterns.
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Are "Project Teams" Really Teams?
My personal study of what makes successful teams, to which I’ve recently alluded, is ongoing. Most recently I came across the article “Project teams…
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Passing Thoughts on Business Analysis & Requirements
Here are just a few impressions I’ve jotted down over the past few weeks that may never evolve into full blog posts, but that…
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So, what do you do, exactly?
Business analysts? How many times have you been asked what you do for a living and had to pause to think for a minute…
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I'm with Einstein
What are some things we could improve by simplifying? How can we think differently and what can we do differently to get the desired…
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What Good is the "As-is"?
Adrian Marchis at Modern Analyst posted a helpful article on process mapping describing, among other things, diagramming the “as-is” process as part of the…
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Did I Really Write That?
As I was scanning through some of my old documents, I found that I wasn’t that thrilled with a lot of my older work.…
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Analysis Model Meme
Craig Brown, who runs the fabulous project management/business analysis blog Better Projects made a call for participation to various bloggers in that niche to…
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Economic Stimulus, Meet Project Manager
PM Perspective: Gregory Balestrero, CEO of the PMI, emphasizes making sure that the initiatives included in the stimulus package are rolled out as quickly…