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Entries for April 2012


» FEATURED: Business Analyst Checkpoints: Checkpoint Alpha
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Business Analyst Checkpoints: Checkpoint Alpha There are three basic checkpoints the business analyst can facilitate to help ensure that he or she is on the right track. Two are informal, merely a get-together with other parties to review the situation and not fraught with the imprimatur of approval. The other is a more formal presentation. I’ll address each of the three checkpoints in this ser...

» FEATURED: Using the Business Architecture in Business Analysis
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Using the Business Architecture in Business Analysis “…The Analyst will [...] facilitate the identification, design and implementation of business and systems solutions in a rapidly growing and evolving business…”   What strategic initiatives might a business analyst as described above discover, and how will they deliver the “business and systems solutions” in today’s 21st Century...

» 360-Degree Dinner
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360-Degree Dinner December ought to be a month of celebrations, but for managers it often isn’t. In many companies this is the time for the yearly performance appraisals. When top management is not trusting employees, and employees are not trusting top management, the middle manager is usually caught between a rock and a hard place. But they don’t have to be.

» FEATURED: 21st Century BA as Creative Leader: What’s All the Fuss About?
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21st Century BA as Creative Leader: What’s All the Fuss About? Leadership is like genius, it is one of those concepts that is recognizable when you observe it in action, but is otherwise somewhat difficult to define. And creative leadership is even harder to define because we haven’t been focusing on it in the context of business, unless we are talking about new product development. But creativity and innovati...

» FEATURED: Business Analysts: Choosing Sides
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Business Analysts: Choosing Sides ... it became clear to me that it was time to revisit the core role a business analyst fulfills in an organization. In my experience thus far, well over 75% of the business analysts I know report through the IT side of their organization. Of the 25% that report through the business side, most have a primary responsibility that is outside of the typ...

» FEATURED: Why Create Multiple Requirements Views?
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Why Create Multiple Requirements Views? If you create only one view of the requirements, you must believe it. You have no other choice. If you develop multiple views, though, you can compare them to look for disconnects that reveal errors and different interpretations. There’s an old saying, variously attributed to the Swedish Army, the Swiss Army, the Norwegian Boy Scouts, a Scottish pr...

» FEATURED: What’s Really Needed to Align Business and IT Part 2: Strategy for a Business Solution
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What’s Really Needed to Align Business and IT Part 2: Strategy for a Business Solution Does your requirements approach allow you to reliably identify blind alleys and showstoppers before your company invests large sums in modeling and software development? What’s missing? Most organizations do follow some project management approach. Do you find yours really helps in answering big-picture business questions?
  

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