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Presenters should be SMART
I just saw Noah Dawson’s blog on WizIQ that professors should be SMART. Now as a professor, I was immediately intrigued. After all, I think of myself as being “smart”. Then, the capitalization of SMART got my BA side going: … Continue reading
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Analyzing Stakeholders
Understanding and managing the stakeholders is a critical activity in successful project implementations and other initiatives. It is performed as soon as a business need has been recognized. It is a continuous effort that occurs throughout the initiative’s lifecycle. Definition … Continue reading
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Tech Gear for the BA
It’s hard to find the right “tech gear” to work as a BA. I like to write on whiteboards in meetings and prefer to take notes in a notebook. I don’t know, but there’s just something distracting about the clickety-clack … Continue reading
A Look at Requirements
In this blog we’ll take a look at requirements, particularly the different types of requirements described in the BABOK(r), and how to write them to be effective for implementation and testing. Let’s start by defining what a requirement is. Simply … Continue reading
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Keeping Creativity Going
Love that quote in Bart Cleveland’s blog about how to keep creativity flowing: ” He said that when he lived up north, he learned quickly that a faucet that was not dripping was the sign of a frozen pipe in … Continue reading
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Common BA Questions
In this month’s blog, I’ll address some of the more common questions I get from business analysts that are just starting out. So, in no particular order, here they are. Let us know what advice you would have for these … Continue reading
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Justify Documentation
As Business Analysts we write a lot of documentation. Most of our documentation comes in the form of text, but many BAs have learned to augment their text documents with a variety of diagrams. The thing that bothers me though, … Continue reading
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Survey on Social Networking Tools
I’m conducting a survey on the adoption of social networking tools by professional business analysts. Help me by completing the survey! Here’s the URL for the survey. It’ll take no more than 5 minutes — there are only 9 questions. … Continue reading
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Project Origination Sources
As BAs we need to know where projects originate so that we can pick the right techniques to apply to analysis and documentation. So, where do projects come from? Projects originate from many sources. They can come top-down, bottom-up, from … Continue reading
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Are Too Many BAs Simply “Order-Takers”?
There is an issue that I’ve heard from my clients consistently over the past few years. It’s that too many Business Analysts (BAs) simply act as “order takers”. They go to the business to get requirements and simply write down … Continue reading
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