Conduct Requirements Interviews to Discover Stakeholder Needs
Business analysis at all levels requires interviewing skills. This post discusses seven key characteristics that will help you improve your interviewing skills.
Of Asking and Telling – Requirements Interviewing Techniques for Business Analysis
A question file is one of the simplest tools for keeping track of what you know you know, what you know you don’t know, and what you don’t know that you do know to contain what you don’t know you don’t know.
Instructor-led vs Self-paced Business Analysis Training
Business analysis training, just like any other skill-building process, can be delivered at your site via live instructor, or via the web (where again, you can have a live instructor or self-paced instruction).
Business Analyst Skills: The Fine Art of Listening
Listening is onve of the critical skills that anyone whearing the business analysis hat needs to master. There is more to this simple action than meets the ear.
What Color Are Your User Requirements?
User Requirements Are Everywhere Not only are user requirements notoriously difficult to capture, they can also be very challenging to express. My basic premise is that user requirements frolic freely around the minds of managers and business users. You also know that...What Type of Business Analyst Are You?
Whereas both project managers (PM) and business analysts (BA) need negotiation, planning, and people skills, the PM role delegates and empowers the people while the BA has to interview and understand them.
Defining Business Problems Is a Fine First Step to Requirements Elicitation
The difference between problems and opportunities is primarily one of perspective. Some people see problems in opportunities, others see opportunities as problems. What’s your take?
Six Stages in the Evolution of a Business Requirement
Business requirements exist in the wilds of organizations around the world, The challenge is to capture, clarify and confirm them as early as possible.







