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» FEATURED: What the CIO Needs: BA’s and Understanding the Stakeholder

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Business Analysts are required to contribute to a project in a number of ways: primarily by identifying the needs of the target community; building the Communications Plan; defining use case models; and Business Requirements document. In order to do their job effectively a large element of a BA’s time must be spent understanding and managing stakeh...

» FEATURED: Developing a Competency Model for Business Analysts

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Developing a Competency Model for Business Analysts

Managers who supervise business analysts, particularly in large companies, frequently struggle with creating a competency model for BAs. What are the key elements to consider? How to structure the various BA levels and titles? How to make sure that the competency model truly reflects business needs? Even if it requires a certain level of effort to ...

» A Guide to Job Sharing for Business Analysts

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A Guide to Job Sharing for Business Analysts

Job sharing is growing in popularity across almost all corporate job sectors. It also offers employers a viable option for balancing heavy workloads and retaining talent. Even if all of an organization's employees are full-time, should a project balloons unexpectedly and a business analyst become overloaded, the option to project-share would ...

» FEATURED: Spring Cleaning in Winter – How’s That for Planning Ahead? (10 Key Business Analysis Trends to Guide You in 2010)

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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 sti...

» Complex Project Management - What’s All the Fuss About?

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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 only deliver on time, on budget, and with the full scope of features and functions. In addition, they deliver the expected benefits in terms of contributions to the bottom line of businesses. And projects today are ...

» Planning your own BA Succession

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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 idea is that all managers should have some idea of who is willing and able to step into your shoes once you are promoted into a new position or change your career focus... It is something that I think is often overl...

» Complex Project Management

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It is no secret that our record of complex project performance is rife with failed and significantly challenged projects. This is true for virtually all types of projects. Examples abound – we offer just a few.

» FEATURED: The Next Wave: Valuable Products First, Process Second

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The Next Wave: Valuable Products First, Process Second

I'm hearing the word "value" a lot lately. This is partly because the economic downturn has us looking to get the most for our money. But that's not all. More and more managers, business analysts, programmers and testers are talking to me about value. They are concerned that their products provide value for their end users. Many of them express a k...

» FEATURED: Leading from the Side

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I have been in the business analysis profession for many years and the one thing I have constantly had to challenge myself on is leading without really leading, or what I call leading from the side. As a business analyst, many times we are not in a position of authority yet we have to have significant leadership skills to be successful.

» The Problem with "Man Hours"

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I've never been comfortable with the concept of "Man Hours," not that it's a gender issue, but rather it implies ignorance of how time is used in the work place and fumbles away some simple management concepts needed to run any business, namely accountability and commitment. Actually, I thought the "Man Hour" concept disappeared with the passing of...

» FEATURED: Process-Driven SOA

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Much of the current buzz about SOA has been focussed on the technology (inevitably Web Services) or the importance of reusability. However the real value of SOA is in the improvement to processes and ways of working that reflect the alignment of an organisation with its customers and suppliers. The approach we favour is one that begins by ali...

» FEATURED: The Potholes of Office Politics

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A couple of months ago, I was driving along a well-traveled road here in town when my headlights fell upon a large pool of standing water. The little boy in me still loves splashing in puddles, whether on foot or in my car. I smiled at the thought of creating a huge spray. Unfortunately, the harmless puddle of standing water was actually a large po...

» FEATURED: Establishing a Business Analysis Community of Practice, Part 3

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Understanding why BA CoPs fail is an essential part of strategic planning. If you can identify the gaps in your own organization, you will be in a much better position to put a plan in place to "Mind the Gap." This article will look at 10 common reasons why BA CoPs fail.

» FEATURED: Establishing a Business Analysis Community of Practice, Part 2

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Part 1 of this series examined the components a Business Analysis Community of Practice should optimally include. This article sets out the first four steps that must be taken in order to establish a successful BA CoP.

» Hiring for IT-Business Alignment at Wyeth

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Wyeth CIO Jeffrey Keisling explains how working with the business on IT staffing helps promote IT-business alignment. He also outlines the two areas of hiring focus: business analysis and business process.

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