Business Analysis Blog
How to Draw Dataflow Diagrams (DFD) for Business Analysis
Drawing a Picture of How a Business Process Creates and Consumes Data Identifies Critical Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
Business Process Analysis for Requirements Discovery
Analyzing Business Process Models to Uncover Workflow Problems and Identify Requirements for IT Solutions
Business Data Modeling – Getting Informational Requirements for IT
Business Data Models Let the Business Community Recognize What Data Is Important to Them and How Data Describes Their Business
What Is a Use Case
Writing Use Cases to Define Interaction Requirements
Problem Analysis Uncovers Business Requirements (2)
How to Craft Business Problem Statements That Enable Decision-makers To Approve Your Project and Ignite Your Team’s Creativity
Business Problems Drive Business Requirements (1)
Effective Information Technology Solutions Start with Business Problem Analysis, for Which You Need a List of Potential Problems
Use a Question File to Reduce Uncertainty during Requirements Elicitation
Keep Your Agile Analysis on Track by Managing Questions, Answers, and Assumptions in a Central Repository
How to Identify Stakeholders for IT Projects
Identifying All Stakeholders at the Beginning of Your Project Is a Best Practice for Reducing Scope Creep and Avoiding Missing Requirements
How to Run Requirements Workshops (aka JAD/R)
Requirements Discovery or User Story Workshops Are a Fast-track Approach To Getting User Requirements from a Diverse Group of Stakeholders
An Introduction to Business Analysis Techniques
An Overview of the Most Widely Used Business Analysis Tools and Techniques
We created the BA-EXPERTS Business Analysis blog to offer traditional, state-of-the-practice, and evolving tips, techniques and insights. Our all-consuming goal is to improve your business analysis outcomes whether your IT group speaks Agile, Waterfall, or Iterative SDM. Our target audience is “the one wearing the Business Analysis hat”, whether you have the title “Business Analyst” or not.
Business Analysis Around the World
Our objective is to keep each of these business analysis “insight” messages short and to the point with information that you can use (or, in some cases, be amused). Our pledge to you is that the contents of the posts will be more than just our opinions. We will base the majority of our articles on the results of extensive research by one of the best content researchers in the business, Angela Hathaway (who can find anything on the web, so if you lost your keys or your wallet…).
Business Analysis Made Easy
In addition, we aim to keep you apprised of what is happening in the world of Business Analysis, System Analysis, Business System Analysis, Requirements Analysis and whatever else organizations decide to call this vital function. Our blog posts will help you in your never-ending search for truth, wisdom and the perfect requirement. (We suspect that finding truth and wisdom will be the easier quest, but we, like you, will never stop trying).







