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IN THIS ISSUE
Featured articles showcased in this issue:
> New Opportunities for Business Analysts: Decision Modeling and Normalization
> Business Analysts Can Enable Innovation
> The Courage to Scribe - Part 3 (42’s Trusted Advisor)
> Bloomfire: Independent Analyst Evaluation
Webinars: Requirements Repositories, Analytics, Use Cases for Agile, and more....
Also in this issue:
> More Business Analyst Humor
> Even more Resources for Business Analysts
> New Interview Questions
FEATURED ARTICLES
New Opportunities for Business Analysts: Decision Modeling and Normalization
by Barbara von Halle & Larry Goldberg, KPI LLC
As a business analyst you are the all-important glue between the business and technology. Your skills range from various kinds of modeling to gathering of high-level as well as detailed robust requirements. Sometimes you operate in traditional systems development and sometimes within agile approaches. A business analyst’s responsibilities are wide and deep.
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Business Analysts Can Enable Innovation
by Manoj Phatak, Domoticware S.L.U.
If business analysts are to enable innovation, we must learn to decode the wishes of our customers into requirements that drive toward what the solution must achieve, without specifying how to achieve it. We can do this by formulating our requirements in abstract, technology-neutral descriptions, learning from patent claims how to achieve this difficult balancing act.
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The Courage to Scribe - Part 3 (42’s Trusted Advisor)
by Elizabeth Larson, CBAP, Watermark Learning
...We scribes are often shunted off to the back of the room. In virtual sessions, scribes are often forgotten and not even introduced. After the workshops, participants tend to remember who facilitated and participated, but not who scribed. Yet we scribes are, after all, the ones who have the greatest opportunity to create structure from chaos.
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Bloomfire: Independent Analyst Evaluation
by Eval Source
The web has opened a flood of learning resources for enterprises. It has reduced costs, extended learning channels and increased learning efficiencies. However, these benefits are only available to businesses that understand the new ways that we are absorbing and spreading information. By incorporating important elements of social curation and automation, Bloomfire remains a step ahead of the curve. It offers the advantages of reduced costs with increased employee engagement and productivity.
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WEBINARS & EVENTS
Webinar: How Analysts Can Easily Conquer Today's Data Challenges - A Case Study
Jul 18, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE
Webinar: How Requirements Repositories and Reusability can Help Achieve a Competitive Advantage
Jul 24, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE
Webinar: 7 Misconceptions of Enterprise Agile: What You Need To Know
Aug 15, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE
Webinar: How to Integrate Business Analysis into the Project Management Process for Spectacular Results
Aug 21, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE
Webinar: Use Cases and User Stories for Agile Requirements
Sep 10, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE
Conference: World Congress for Business Analysts
September, 2013 - Orlando, FL - More Details
Conference: Building Business Capabilities
November, 2013 - Las Vegas, NV - More Details
MORE FROM ModernAnalyst.com
More Articles & Posts of Interest
> Requirements Traceability, Part 3 - The Process
> Do you want stakeholders to trust you?
> Lessons from a Spelling Bee
 
Relevant Interview Questions
> Once a system is developed is it reasonable to document changes with simple updates to screen mockups?
> In User Centered Design, should analysts create a separate Personas for every demographic segment?
> Once a system is developed is it reasonable to document changes with simple updates to screen mockups?
Help a fellow BA: Forum Posts
> User Stories for Production Support
> Requirements gathering and documenting
> Best Business Analysis Practice Implemented
FEATURED Business Analysis JOBS
> Metadata Business Analyst Job
> Business Analyst, Information Services Job
> Senior Business Analyst Job
More BA Jobs...
Albourne America LLC has the following job opportunity in Norwalk, CT: Operational Due Diligence Analyst [Req. #: ODDA13]. Detect, analyze, review & monitor fund operational processes & risk mgmt. & liaise w/portfolio clients. Mail resumes to: 655 Montgomery St., Ste 1910, Attn: Andra Flynn, San Francisco, CA 94111. Principals only. Must include Req # to be considered.
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