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Top 10 Mistakes in Requirements Elicitation

Elicitation involves bringing out or drawing out information. Elicitation is a key task in business analysis as without proper elicitation the requirements for the solution to the business needs cannot be identified. 1. Not understanding underlying business need Organization’s business environment keeps changing with respect to Customer...

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This entry was published on Apr 27, 2021 / Trividh Patel, CBAP. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Elicitation (BABOK KA), Enterprise Analysis (BABOK KA), Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA) , Requirements Management and Communication (BABOK KA), Solution Assessment and Validation (BABOK KA), Project Management, Systems Analysis, Business Analysis, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills, Soft Skills, Leadership & Management, Technical Topics, Roles and Responsibilities. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Lori Smith

What is TOGAF and How to Get a TOGAF Certification

TOGAF is a certification that is handed over by The Open Group. It is an open corporate architecture means used to improvise upon the business effectiveness across the world’s leading business set-ups. Aspirants wishing for a successful career in corporate architecture must go for the TOGAF certification in order to explain the...

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This entry was published on Apr 11, 2021 / Lori Smith. Posted in Technical Topics. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Practice Manager

My Certification Journey - Avoiding a CBAPtism by Fire (The Why)

My Certification Journey – Avoiding a CBAPtism by Fire. Industry Certification has always been one of my career goals. Ever since being first introduced to Business Analysis, the discussion of being certified by the most recognized industry body in this field, the IIBA, has been a consistent topic. This was only reinforced when I was first in...

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This entry was published on Feb 28, 2021 / Practice Manager. Posted in CBAP. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Anthony Horner

Execute your BPMN Diagram

BPMN 2.0 is a modelling standard that has been around for 10 years now and although it has its foibles it has been recognised as the best for capturing the business logic behind real-life scenarios. What most people don’t realise is that the standard itself is supported by an XML definition of its objects. What does this mean? Essent...

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This entry was published on Feb 04, 2021 / Anthony Horner. Posted in Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) . Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

10 Reasons Why You Should Consider an ITIL Certification

Different procedures are utilized for legitimate administration of IT administrations, yet ITIL is viewed as the best arrangement of practices for even administration of IT administrations. ITIL is the contraction for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. In easier words, ITIL is many rules and arrangements for the effective admin...

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This entry was published on Nov 27, 2020 / . Posted in Business Process Management (BPM) . Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Rajesh-N

AI in Testing: Do You Need It? This Article Will Help You Decide!

What Everyone Must Know about AI in Testing Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword that we frequently keep hearing. Its widespread popularity and influence can be understood from the way industries adopting AI in their organization. Whether it’s Healthcare, Automobile, Banking & Financial Services, or Airlines, many industries have st...

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This entry was published on Oct 28, 2020 / Rajesh-N. Posted in Testing & Quality Assurance (QA), Technical Topics, Tools. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Ashish Adike

Product Evaluation Framework for a BA

As a Business Analyst, very often we get into a situation where the Project requires multiple IT Products to be evaluated before implementation and might seek Business Analyst’s recommendation for the same. With the ever-growing range of Products in the market and the marketing promotions associated with some of the products, it’s very ...

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This entry was published on Oct 20, 2020 / Ashish Adike. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Solution Assessment and Validation (BABOK KA), Functional Specifications, Business Analysis, User Interface & Usability, Tools. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

m_anst

How to make the most of Requirement Elicitation

What Does Success Look Like? I challenge Business Analysts to view requestors’ requirements as an opportunity to define success. Too often, teams fall into a trap focused on requestors’ prescriptive requirements that are meant to serve as roadmaps for developers and testers. When you limit your view of requirements to this prescripti...

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This entry was published on Oct 11, 2020 / m_anst. Posted in Project Management, Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Mariya Kotsupalova

Just Another Way to Organize BA Quality Surveys

They say the best criteria of Business Analyst’s success are a happy customer (business) and a happy engineering team. But what does it mean? How can we break down happiness and measure it? These are precisely the questions my 8 BAs team and I tried to answer this year. The result was a surprisingly efficient pair of surveys we developed and ...

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This entry was published on Oct 10, 2020 / Mariya Kotsupalova. Posted in Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Rajesh-N

Robotic Process Automation - Business Game Changer in 2021

Explore the Benefits of RPA's Adoption Across Segments In the past few years, we have seen steady growth in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It gathered momentum in 2019 and became a hot topic in IT and business circuits in 2020. The power of process automation will be felt even more strongly, propelling its adoption as a replacement f...

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This entry was published on Sep 25, 2020 / Rajesh-N. Posted in Technical Topics. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

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As we start a new year many of us will take the time to reflect on our accomplishments from 2012 and plan our goals for 2013. We can set small or large goals. goals that will be accomplished quickly or could take several years. For 2013, I think Business Analysts should look to go beyond our traditional boundaries and set audacious goals. Merriam-...

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Hey IIBA, What’s Up With That?

Recently, I was asked by the IIBA to present a talk at one of their chapter meetings. I am reprinting here my response to that invitation in the hope that it will begin a conversation with fellow EEPs and BAs about an area of great concern to the profession. Hi xx …. Regarding the IIBA talk, there is another issue that I am considering. It's p...

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Continuing the ABC series for Business Analysts, Howard Podeswa created the next installment titled "BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram" as an article rather than a blog post. You can find the article here: BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram Here are the previous two posts: BA ABCs: “A” is for Activity Diagram BA ABCs: “B” is for BPMN