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Praveen Udupa

All requirements are important!

I was running a meeting with a few stakeholders. I was imploring them to indicate the relative importance of requirements, but was hitting a brick wall; they kept insisting, "They all look the same to me. All requirements are important. They all are must-haves." I tried to reason with them multiple times over. There are just too many requirements...

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This entry was published on May 17, 2016 / Praveen Udupa. Posted in Requirements Management and Communication (BABOK KA), Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

rlogan1301

How A Dentist Appointment Made Me A Better BA

My youngest daughter was scheduled for her first dentist appointment. She couldn’t contain her excitement. She had her stuffed dog, dentist-visiting attire and bright, sparkling smile ready for the event. She was ready to go. Little did I realize that not only would my daughter come away with a clean-bill of dental hea...

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This entry was published on May 17, 2016 / rlogan1301. Posted in Business Analysis, Career as a Business Systems Analyst, Roles and Responsibilities. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Praveen Udupa

Stakeholder Requirement: Clarified

This is in continuation of my earlier post on Business Requirement. If you have not read that post, I recommend you take a few minutes to study that first before continuing with this post. In this post, let's discuss Stakeholder Requirement. Some people refer to this as User Requirement, but BABOK's nomenclature is Stakeholder Requi...

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This entry was published on May 06, 2016 / Praveen Udupa. Posted in Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA) , Functional Specifications, Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Praveen Udupa

"It should be black in color"

Yes, yes...you are right. This is an elephant. Well, no. This post is not about the elephant. The elephant is used only for symbolism. And you are right...there are a lot of other similar posts out there. This is my take on this topic. It is different from others. So, what does the elephant stand for? T...

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This entry was published on May 06, 2016 / Praveen Udupa. Posted in Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Praveen Udupa

Business Requirement: Clarified

"Business Requirement" is a maligned phrase. Different people have different interpretations for what it means. The worst interpretation that I have come across is, “hey, if the requirement comes from a business stakeholder, then it is a business requirement”. Requirement from business is NOT business requirement. For God's sake, every ...

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This entry was published on May 06, 2016 / Praveen Udupa. Posted in Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA) , Functional Specifications, Business Analysis, IIBA & BABOK. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Praveen Udupa

The most important question for a Business Analyst

Years ago, I was consulting as a Principal Business Analyst for the second largest company in the world in the money transfer business. One fine morning, I was engrossed in my work when my business stakeholder, (let's call him Tom) arrived at my desk. Tom: Praveen, I have a change request for you. Well, this is a new business requiremen...

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This entry was published on May 01, 2016 / Praveen Udupa. Posted in Elicitation (BABOK KA), Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA) . Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

RANGA

Business Analyst - The ONE – Part 4

We saw about the problems and the ways of defining a solution to those problems in the last article. Also, I had mentioned that when a problem arises, there is a need for the business to resolve that problem. So, what would be business needs? It again depends on the problems which they face. By definition, Needs are desires of the project cus...

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This entry was published on Apr 25, 2016 / RANGA. Posted in Business Analysis, Getting Started as a Business Systems Analyst. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Bharat Mamtani

Things to know before you start your BA career

Now when I am already a successful BA since many years, I would like to share few moments with everyone. During my first months as a business analyst, life was filled with a sort of inner turmoil. Even though I had books on how to write requirements documents, had received individual mentoring on putting together use cases, and had a trus...

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This entry was published on Apr 24, 2016 / Bharat Mamtani. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Career as a Business Systems Analyst, Getting Started as a Business Systems Analyst, IIBA & BABOK, CBAP. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

RANGA

Business Analyst - The ONE – Part 3

Till now whatever we have seen was more from a bank point of view on few of the roles and responsibilities of a business analyst. Let us see on day-today what a business analyst might be doing!!! Before understanding what business analyst do, let us understand why any business need an analyst. By definition, an analyst is the individual wh...

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This entry was published on Apr 18, 2016 / RANGA. Posted in Business Analysis, Getting Started as a Business Systems Analyst. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

RANGA

Business Analyst - The ONE – Part 2

Now, I am a BA. My role of doing the routine operational work is no more there. Now I am in to the mode of asking questions. So, what are the questions I should be asking? How am I supposed to interpret the answers? How do I build my knowledge on the process based on these answers? How can I contribute to the improvement of the process? These are f...

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This entry was published on Mar 01, 2016 / RANGA. Posted in Business Analysis, Getting Started as a Business Systems Analyst. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

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