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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...

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Root Cause Analysis: Using the Five Whys
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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...

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Blurring the Lines between Business and IT
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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
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