IN THIS ISSUE Featured articles showcased in this issue: > Are You BA or BOT? > How to Improve Your Meeting Facilitation Skills > The Magic of Tabulation: How to Write Better Business Rules and Better Requirements > Decisioning – the next generation of Business Rules Webinars: Agile Requirements, Business Architecture, BACOE, and more.... Also in this issue: > More Business Analyst Humor > Even more Resources for Business Analysts > New Interview Questions
FEATURED ARTICLES Are You BA or BOT? by Paul Mulvey, Director of Business Analysis at Enfocus Solutions Do you know? If not, should you? I’m using BA as an abbreviation for Business Analyst (really, though, it’s one who performs business analysis regardless of the title) and BOT for “Business Order Taker” (also an abbreviated term for ROBOT). They are different in the way they approach business analysis. Read more...
How to Improve Your Meeting Facilitation Skills by Laura Brandenburg, CBAP, Bridging the Gap It’s pretty rare to be a business analyst and not facilitate meetings... In this article, we’ll look at 3 possible roles new BAs fill in meetings, how to expand your meeting facilitation experience, and review 5 critical meeting facilitation techniques that will help you run working, productive meetings. Read more...
The Magic of Tabulation: How to Write Better Business Rules and Better Requirements by Ronald G. Ross, Business Rule Solutions, LLC This article examines how to use tabulation to write better business rules. If you’re not writing business rules, well, you should be. Fortunately, the very same guidelines apply to writing requirements in general, so there is much to be gained on all fronts. Read more... Decisioning – the next generation of Business Rules by Mark Norton, Director, Idiom Ltd As hands-on business ownership of decision automation gains ground it is becoming apparent that fully automating a decision-making process requires an expanded concept of business rules that includes the ability to transform and/or derive data within the rules process itself, in order to align the input data with the policy statements that are driving the decisions; and to produce a wider range of outcomes. Read more... WEBINARS & EVENTS Harmonizing Requirements and Business Architecture Oct 23, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE How to Slash Data Analysis Project Times in Half Oct 30, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE BA Center of Excellence Nov 6, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE Agile Collaboration to Improve Requirements Productivity Nov 13, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE Best Practices in Visualization Dec 4, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE BA Effectiveness through Social Traceability & Collaboration Dec 11, 2013 - Register Now, Cost: FREE Conference: Building Business Capabilities November, 2013 - Las Vegas, NV - More Details MORE FROM ModernAnalyst.com More Articles & Posts of Interest & Templates > Home Peritoneal Dialysis: a BPMN model and use of 5S principles > Measure Once, Cut Twice > Free eBook: Big Data Analytics for Dummies > The Top Five Go-To Requirements Elicitation Methods > Effective Agile Requirements Gathering - Cheat Sheet
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