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Entries for the 'Business Analysis' Category
» The World of Business Analysis to those fresh out of high school.
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| Im fresh out of high school and am interested in becoming a Business Analyst one day. I'd like to have information regarding what steps I need to take to become a Business Analyst. All information: What to study? (Bcom, MBA etc), Work experienced required? (in business as something close to analysis, or specific number of years etc), Becoming a Bus... |
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» A view of Business Architecture
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| Just to pass some time recently, I was reading a dictionary (like you do) and I came across the following definitions of architecture:
The art and science of designing and superintending the erection of buildings and similar structures
A style of building or structure
Buildings or structures collectively
The structure or desig... |
Posted by: Richard Skidmore
» Feedback cycles, meet deadlines. NOT good bedfellows
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Its quite a feat of strength to pretend you don’t have any weaknesses. I don’t pretend to be that strong.
Its quite a bit easier for me to look for faults, gaps, misses, short comings, imperfections and details that spell out why something is not right.
Its a blessing and a curse.
Looking at my deliverables in this light is second nature... |
Posted by: theBetterBA
» Exploring discover to deliver!
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| Dear Fellow BAs,
Discover to Deliver was released by Ellen and Mary a few weeks ago. I got an opportunity to interview them and ask about what insipred them to write this book, and also discussed in-depth the various facets of the book.
If you are into agile product planning and analysis, I highly encourage you get a copy of this and also l... |
Posted by: Yaaqub Mohamed (Yamo)
» 6 Strategies for a Better PM/BA relationship
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| Given the importance of the relationship between the Project Manager and the Business Analyst on a project team, how can an organization nurture this key relationship and, in the process, ensure better team performance? Here are six basic strategies you can employ:
1. Train and cross training PMs and BAs on methodology and r... |
Posted by: ccecere
» The Need for a Recipe
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| Everyone knows what use cases are and their use in the software requirements process. We all know there are many ways to write them: logical, physical, to describe a manual procedure or an automated procedure. The purpose of State Diagrams is well-known to everyone in the field. They help us define the transitional lifecycle of an object moving and... |
Posted by: Dahlia Biazid
» How Far Do You Take Your Business Process Models?
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| Business Process Modeling (BPM) is one of the cornerstone techniques in electing requirements from our stakeholders. Business Analyst will use the model to gain an understanding of the current system and paint a picture of the solution. In the IT field, we often describe this as modeling the “As-IS” process and modeling the “To-Be” process. We deve... |
Posted by: International Institute for Learning, Inc.
» Breaking Through the BA Mystique
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| You can’t work in IT and not have watched “Office Space.” I mean, it’s a prerequisite, isn’t it? It’s like being a developer and never having heard “Code Monkey.” It’s the type of movie where you sit and nod as you laugh, recognizing it is funny because it is true.
My favorite dialogue in the film is between Bob Slydell (one of the Bobs tasked w... |
Posted by: palvarez
» Getting to FRs, part 3 - it's the process, dammit
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People expect a lot from their information systems, but it usually it comes down to one thing: the system has to do stuff. When you talk about systems, the verbs are active: the system is running, it is executing a function, the system is responding, ....
And what do you want it to do? You want it to do as much of your business p... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Getting to FRs, part 2 - Scope is not just mouth wash...
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| Let me reprise the words of Mr. Brooks ...
“… the hardest single part of software development [remains] deciding precisely what to build."
Fred Brooks
Author of the 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet”
The unspoken corollary to this is you have to be sure you don't build the wrong system. Knowing what and what not to build is a matter of definin... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Getting to Functional Requirements, part 1 - the never-ending open-ended question...
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| Back to the nasty question - what sort of Information System shall will we build?
"What sort of system do you want?"
"hmmm, one that processes all our customer orders, I think. What do you think, George?"
"Well Fred, I suppose so, but I know it has to be fast, and run 24/7."
"OK.........(???)"
We already know the problem with asking people... |
Posted by: David Wright
» The "R" Word
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| Software is a uniquely new invention, different than anything else we humans have come up with in the past. ...
"The software-controlled electronic information system is fundamentally different from physical labor-saving devices such as the cotton gin, the locomotive, or the telephone. Rather than extend the ability of hand motion, leg motion, ... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Information Systems Users don't know what they want... So, don't ask them what they want...
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| Information Systems Users don't know what they want... So, don't ask them what they want: and definitely don't write some software and then say "how's this look?".
On the other hand, don't have someone spend weeks talking to various people about what they want ( and not get to talk to other people ), write it all down and deliver a document, sayin... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Upside down Procedures and Processes
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| Are we looking at it all wrong?
Do you ever get the feeling that you are seeing something very different than the other guy? I don’t just mean the glass half full/empty outlook on life, but fundamentally are we looking at things the wrong way?
I sometimes get that feeling when dealing with projects that involve processes, and all my projects are... |
Posted by: Mike Cunningham
» A dressing down for business analysts
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| BA: “They didn’t pitch for my workshop. Again.”
Mentor: “You must be mortified.”
BA: “Seriously, they come up with these lame excuses: they don’t understand that computer stuff, they’re too busy, they think it’s a waste of time. One even told me to get it done and let him have a look when I’m finished. How the hell must I fathom the requirements ... |
Posted by: Robin Grace
» Difference between a Brainstorm and Focus Group
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| If you work in new product development or have participated in maintenance projects, then most likely you have used either the focus group or the brainstorming technique. The brainstorming technique is used to produce ideas and increase creativity. For example, after you’ve defined your problem and are looking for the different solution options, yo... |
Posted by: Linda Erzah, CBAP
» Requirements Gathering
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| Requirements gathering is an essential part of any project and project management. Understanding fully what a project will deliver is critical to its success. This may sound like common sense, but surprisingly it's an area that is often given far too little attention.
Many projects start with the barest headline list of requirements, only to find ... |
Posted by: a.prvz
» Kano Analysis as a requirements prioritization model
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| This presentation deck describes the fundamentals of Kano Analysis and how it can be used to prioritize requirements.
Kano Analysis and Software Requrements
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Posted by: Craig Brown
» Separating Requirements Elicitation from Business Analysis
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| What do you need the most when eliciting Requirements? Face-time with Subject Matter Experts and their Managers. As a Business Analyst employed in a typical organization, what is the thing you get the least of? Face-time with Subject Matter Experts and their Managers. Who will Subject Matter Experts and Managers make time to see? Outside Cons... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Robustness Diagrams and Robustness Analysis
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| Dear All BA's,
I am conducting a simple informal survery about the utilization of robustness diagrams and robustness analysis by BA's. The questions will take less than one minute of your time to answer and your input will greatly my research work that I am conducting towards improving the current practices in BA.
Do you use robusntess diagrams a... |
Posted by: Dr. Mohamed El-Attar
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