Tag: analysis
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Why Stakeholders Don’t Tell You Everything
It’s not because they don’t want you to know, it’s because they do things automatically and don’t even think to tell you about it.
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A Business Analyst is a Communication Expert
Through communication expertise, a business analyst helps drive successful solution delivery.
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The Value of Small Wins (or, How to Eat an Elephant)
Each bite we take of the proverbial elephant represents progress – a small win – toward the larger, more significant goal.
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Be Kind to your Stakeholders!
The problem is usually not that the stakeholders don’t want to engage, but that we make make communication way too hard for them.
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Be an Unselfish Business Analyst!
You may be a great facilitator, an excellent “elicitor” of requirements; your analytical skills may be second to none, but if you can’t package…
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Business Analysts: Don’t Forget Your ROI!
It’s important that we take our own advice when it comes to our analysis efforts and keep ROI (Return on Investment) at front of…
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Begin with what you HAVE to do
The simple fact is, you can’t know all the details upfront. You can and should, however, be able to work with your stakeholders to…
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Time Travel for Context-free Use Cases
Yes, sometimes we BA’s need to think of creative ways to help us withhold the technology and implementation detail from our requirements.
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Classic Business Analysis Articles
I was sorting through some of my bookmarks and articles I’ve accumulated over time via the Web, and found that there are a few…
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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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Congratulations, You’re Ignorant!
The more we learn, the more we realize we don’t know.
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Use Case Basics: Keeping it Simple
A few simple tips for identifying and documenting use cases.
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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.”