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» FEATURED: 5 Top Mistakes Management Makes With BA Performance Measurement Programs (And How to Avoid Them)
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5 Top Mistakes Management Makes With BA Performance Measurement Programs (And How to Avoid Them) When used properly, a performance measurement program can help BAs and their managers identify specific improvement priorities, clarify responsibilities, and drive the desired behaviors required to achieve business goals. However, in practice it's rare to see managers taking advantage of the benefits a good performance measurement system can offer....

» FEATURED: eBook: What is a Business Analyst? ...and why do I need one?
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eBook: What is a Business Analyst? ...and why do I need one? Worldwide, there are between five hundred thousand and one million people working as Business Analysts...  So why are all types of businesses, from charities to investment banks, hiring so many of them?...  What do they actually do?...

» FEATURED: The Influencing Formula for Business Analysts
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The Influencing Formula for Business Analysts I often get asked, “How can I get stakeholders to attend my meetings?” or “How can I get stakeholders’ buy-in on the project?” These are complex questions and the easy answer is that you can’t. As BAs and PMs we can’t get anyone to do anything, but we can certainly influence them so that they want to.

» FEATURED: The Decision Model and Process Models with BPMN
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The Decision Model and Process Models with BPMN The Decision Model in practice has delivered many unanticipated, but positive surprises. The most obvious and powerful surprise is how it drastically simplifies process models. In fact, we regularly receive unsolicited messages from people who experience this effect. For example, one practitioner condensed a 45-page process model to one with e...

» The Mentalist Guide to Requirements Gathering
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The Mentalist Guide to Requirements Gathering The reason I bring this up is that there has always been a fascination with trying to guess what is going on the minds of the people in front of you. This is particularly apt when you are trying to understand what the in-duh-vidual in front of you really wants.

» FEATURED: Starting Your Requirements Education
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Starting Your Requirements Education So you want to be a better requirements analyst. Or maybe you’re completely new to business analysis and you just want to learn what requirements analysis involves, period.

» “Why?” versus “Why Not?”
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“Why?” versus “Why Not?” One day I found that my husband posted an interesting status on Facebook and it made me think of how these two simple questions can produce different results based on the situations. My husband’s quote is as follows: "We can ask the question "Why?" or think of how to make it happen and say "Why not?"

» FEATURED: Use Case Points: an analysis phase estimating technique
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Use Case Points: an analysis phase estimating technique Use Case Points are used as an analysis phase technique for estimating software development. Assuming the Business Analyst (BA) composes system use cases for describing functional requirements, the BA can use this technique for estimating the follow-on implementation effort. This article reviews the process of estimating the follow-on development e...
  

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