Business Analyst: Job Title or Role?
Who Does Business Analysis?The End of Business Analysis or a Top Career to Pursue?
Business analysis as a profession might be at risk. Business analysis as a critical function within any organization is a crucial activity that has to be done by someone wearing the BA hat.
Five Rules for Writing Effective User Stories
User stories are a great way of expressing stakeholder requirements. By following a few simple rules, they can become even more powerful.
Are Business Problems or Opportunities Driving Requirements?
Organizations initiate IT projects either to solve business problems or to seize business opportunities. Recognizing the difference is the challenge.
Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Business Analysis
Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Business Analysis are three distinct levels within an organization. Although they are all called business analysis, there are significant differences in the breadth and depth of the tools and techniques necessary to support each.
Tactical Business Analysis is Done During Project Initiation
Tactical Business Analysis is applied within a project to ensure that the product is well defined and understood both by those who need the produce and by those who build/buy the product. In an Agile environment, it is used primarily during release, iteration, and sprint planning sessions.
A Basic Business Problem Analysis Technique
How does your organization decide which projects to fund? When a project is done, how do you know if it was successful? Business problem analysis is a set of techniques that identify and evaluate areas in which stakeholders are unhappy with an existing situation....How Process Models Clarify Requirements
Confucius (or another one of the early Chinese geniuses) is credited with saying that a picture is worth a thousand words.