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Spring Cleaning in Winter – How’s That for Planning Ahead? (10 Key Business Analysis Trends to Guide You in 2010) Spring Cleaning in Winter – How’s That for Planning Ahead? (10 Key Business Analysis Trends to Guide You in 2010)
This year, organizations will be picking themselves up and dusting themselves off, becoming more savvy, agile and proactive. Business analysts are well positioned to help organizations meet the challenges of putting their houses back in order by helping to answer the question: “How and where do we create efficiencies that will help mitigate the sting of another possible economic downturn?” Read More...

Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements P...
Extreme Inspections are a low-cost, high-improvement way to assure specification quality, effectively teach good specification practice... Read more...
Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How
Does the business perceive business rules as a true organizational asset? Are they visible, valuable, and universally accepted as data ... Read more...

Complex Project Management - What’s All the Fuss About? Complex Project Management - What’s All the Fuss About?
Complex Project Management (CPM) is the “next new thing” in our quest to achieve stronger project performance. Successful projects not ... Read more...
Planning your own BA Succession Planning your own BA Succession
If you've ever been a manager or above in a corporation, you've probably been exposed to the concept of Succession Planning. The basic ... Read more...

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Root Cause Analysis: Using the Five Whys
Business Analysts are often thrown into projects to help gather requirements around a known, defined problem.  Other times we’re asked to analyze... Read More...

Mitigating the Risk of Story Point Drift
In many Agile projects requirements are not typically written in the form of a formal requirements document. Instead, a collection of concise but... Read More...

Agile Development: What we can learn from property developers – or what they’ve learned from us Agile Development: What we can learn from property developers – or what they’ve learned from us
Readers of this blog (both of you; I know you’re out there!) may have gathered by now that I’m a big fan of mixing it up: art/science/business/philoso... Read More...


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Blurring the Lines between Business and IT
A “What If” question for business analysts and IT professionals… What if it suddenly became very easy for someone to do both your job and their own,... Read More...

Measuring the Success of Training Activities
I am in charge of a relatively big training effort for a project (approximately 45 live training sessions in 10 weeks, as well as online training oppo... Read More...

Why Business Analysts Should Not Perform Quality Assurance
I seem to find quite a few job postings for Business Analysts that have a couple of lines in the ‘tasks to perform’ description that scare m... Read More...

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