Business Analysis Blog
User Stories Are a Requirements Gathering Technique for Any IT Project
User stories are becoming the preferred structure for expressing what business analysts call “Stakeholder Requirements”. Structuring them properly makes them even more powerful.
Ignorance is Bliss for the Business Analyst
How much does a business analyst have to know about the subject matter to be effective? The answer is surprisingly little – assuming the business analyst knows how to do business analysis.
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.
Are IT Requirements Elicited, Gathered, Captured, Defined or …?
Do You Really Want To Elicit IT Requirements? It is time for me to enlighten the rest of the world regarding IT requirements elicitation. First off, I consider it somewhat of a dangerous term, elicitation. I am afraid to ask other stakeholders on the project that I...
Ben Franklin on Business Analysis
Business Analysis Question: What Do You Know? Ben Franklin once observed, "... the more we know, the more we feel that we don't know." Actually, I’m going out on a limb here and assuming that he was neither the first nor the last to voice that thought, albeit he did...
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).
Learning Business Analysis by Participating in a Requirements Workshop
JRP sessions are a viable option for getting to business and stakeholder requirements in a hurry, whether the project that implements the requirements follows an Agile or a traditional software development methodology.
Virtual Requirements Gathering Workshops – Your Time is Now!
Getting stakeholders together for a requirements discovery meeting is a phenomenal tool for collaborative development, one of the cornerstones of the Agile philosophy. Holding these sessions in the cloud can further improve the ROI while improving the outcomes.
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.
You Might Be a Business Analyst . . .
How many of you out there are doing the kinds of things that typical business analysts do, but do not have the title? You may be a business analyst and not even know it!
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
