Business Analysis Blog
Data Flow Diagrams vs Activity Diagrams: Which to Use When
The purpose of any model is to focus people’s attention on specific dimensions of the depicted situation that the model makes visible. This visibility is critical because when people can see what they are discussing, it helps keep their discussion on topic. Just...
Problem Analysis Using a DFD: A True Story
To set the scene, we were hired by the IT manager of a major corporation to conduct a Requirements Gathering Workshop for a project that he felt was impossible. The project sponsor was the Director of Marketing in the company (we’ll call him Mark) and he wanted to...
Walkthrough of Problem Analysis using a DFD
According to an old adage, “The proof is in the pudding.” Ergo, we will offer you some “Pudding” by walking you through a real life example of Problem Analysis using a DFD. To make it easier to follow, we will use our standard Data Flow Diagram of a typical Order...
Problem Statement DFD Overlay: Discovering the Source of Business Problems
A process model is a phenomenal tool for analyzing and isolating problems in workflow. Obviously, the ultimate outcome of the analysis will be a set of requirements that any solution has to meet to eliminate the problems and/or some Quick Fixes that will temporarily...
Process Modeling for Requirements: Yeah or Nay?
A participant in our ILT course, "Business Process Modeling and Analysis – Simply Put!" recently asked, "Is the time it takes to create a detailed process model for my project a worthwhile investment?" Here is our take on it. Generally speaking, a business process is...
How to Become a Business Analyst within Your Budget (V2.0)
We often receive requests from people seeking advice on how to become a business analyst. As you will see, breaking into business analysis — like any other profession — is a non-trivial undertaking. Learning How to Learn Better For starters, I suggest...
Jump-Start your Business Analyst Career with a Business Analysis Skills Test
We unabashedly admit that we developed BASE (Business Analyst’s Skills Evaluation) to sell training. However, visitors to the website found several additional uses for this versatile tool that we wanted to share. Who knows, you might come up with the next great...
BA-EXPERTS and Requirements Solutions Group – Who is Who Now?
Requirements Solutions Group (RequirementsSolutions.com) is now subsumed by BA-EXPERTS to offer best-of-breed business analysis training to organizations and individuals, onsite and online.
How Can BASE (Business Analysis Skills Evaluation) Help You?
Test Your Business Analysis Skills Our Business Analysis Skills Evaluation (BASE) is a...
The Elusive Dream of Good Requirements for IT
Requirements define the future state that someone would like to experience. The problem with requirements is whether the person who wrote them and the people reading them share a common understanding.
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…).
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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).
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