Business Analysis Blog
Learning How to Define IT Requirements
Requirements define the future of your organization. Without well-founded, well-expressed, and well-understood requirements, the future of your projects and your organization is at risk.
Learning Business Analysis using the 70/20/10 Rule
Studying versus Learning Business Analysis There are two fundamental ways to learn how to do anything: the academic (theoretical) path and the apprenticeship (mentoring/coaching) path. Whether you choose the academic or apprenticeship route, acquiring any ability...
Requirements Gathering Workshops for Widely Distributed Teams
Requirements Gathering Workshops Go Virtual - For Real Defining business and stakeholder requirements is tough enough; adding the difficulty of having to deal with different locations and time zones can drive you up the wall. You might have tried web or virtual...
Do Your User Stories Have a Happy Ending?
Starting your user story by stating the business goal/objective that you want to achieve simplifies the process of collecting and managing your product backlog.
User Story – Agile Was Just the Beginning
Well-structured, relevant user stories are a business analyst’s best friend whether your organization uses an Agile, Iterative/Spiral, or Waterfall software development approach.
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.
Business Analysis: Where Did We Come From and Where Are We Heading?
What is business analysis about and why do we need more people involved in it?
One Development Methodology (SDM) Does Not Fit All
Every project is a unique convergence of people, available technology, desired outcomes, and organizational culture. Ergo, those in authority should determine the appropriate SDM based on organizational as well as project factors and all options should be on the table for each project. How does the decision impact the one wearing the BA hat and how can you influence the decision?
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.
Requirements Gathering Interviewing Techniques for Business Analysts
Maintaining a list of the questions you need answered is a simple but effective interviewing tool for business analysts.
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).
Consise High Quality Content
How To Write User Stories That Deliver Real Business Value
Online Course: Agile Business Analysis: Getting / Writing Lean Requirements
User Stories: A Collaboration Tool for Business and IT
How to Facilitate Agile Meetings and User Story Workshops
Requirements Gathering with Use Cases for Business Analysts
How to Design, Build, Deploy, and Manage Directed Chatbots
Live Virtual Classroom
Business Analyst Skills Test
