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The breathless pronouncements surrounding Artificial Intelligence often paint a picture of wholesale disruption, a technological tidal wave poised to obliterate established business practices. Yet the truth is more nuanced: AI does not replace strategy; it replaces bad strategy. In the absence of a ...
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Planning to take CPRE certification and grow your business analysis career further? This article may help you with some of the starting questions and their answers.

First and foremost any certification exam requires a huge level of determination and commitment from within yourself (self motivation). The drive could also be the encouragement/backing from your organization as part of your professional development goals. In any case, congratulations on start of this journey, now that you are thinking of studying something afresh and are ready to learn further about it.

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Fear is a powerful motivator. It often drives us to hold onto the familiar, resisting change, even when the change might bring progress. This fear—of the unknown, of disruption—feeds into status quo bias, a cognitive bias that compels individuals and organizations to stick with established systems, even when these systems are no longer effective. As business analysts, overcoming this bias is critical to fostering innovation and success in projects.

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Psychological safety has been reported to result in increased knowledge sharing among software development team members. Studies found a positive correlation between social interaction, team psychological safety, and synergistic knowledge development. When team members feel safe and confident that the environment is free of blame and consequences, they are more inclined to share information. Synergistic knowledge development is observed when a group amalgamates the diverse perspectives of its individual members, thereby leveraging the collective knowledge of the group.

Oct 13, 2024
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In the vast landscape of project management, few challenges loom as large and insidious as scope creep. It's the silent saboteur that can derail even the most meticulously planned projects, leading to missed deadlines, ballooning budgets, and frayed nerves. When it comes to Big Rock Projects—those monumental undertakings that hold significant strategic importance for an organization—the stakes are even higher. These projects are the bedrock upon which future success is built, and allowing them to veer off course due to uncontrolled scope expansion is not an option.

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Planning, managing, and delivering business requirements are daunting undertakings in any organization. It requires a lot of human resources and despite great efforts, the success rate of digital transformation project delivery is usually very low in most organizations, according to Boston Consulting Group and the Harvard Business Review. In this article, we’ll touch base on two methodologies that address today’s challenges of managing and crafting valuable business requirements, one of which is based on generative artificial intelligence.

Requirement Management in TOGAF Enterprise Architecture

Requirement Management is at the center of enterprise architecture as shown in Figure 1 below. In The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), a requirement is defined as a statement of need that must be met by the architecture. It typically represents a high-level capability that must be met by the system or enterprise architecture to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formally imposed document. Requirements in TOGAF serve as the basis for planning, defining, designing, and realizing architectural solutions at the business, application, data, and technology levels. They play a crucial role in guiding the development of the architecture to be delivered, ensuring that the final outcome aligns with the strategic goals, stakeholder needs, and operational demands of the organization.

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Templates & AidesTemplates & Aides: find and share business analysis templates as well as other useful aides (cheat sheets, posters, reference guides) in our Templates & Aides repository.  Here are some examples:
* Requirements Template
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