Business Analysis Blog
Lean Business Analysis Skills for Agile Product Owners
I was recently asked, “What are the most important business analysis skills or techniques that Product Owners need?” My initial response was, “Most – if not all”. But then I started thinking (a nasty habit that irritates the hell out of those who know me better;...
Business Analysis versus Business as Usual
If humanity had opted for “business-as-usual” from the beginning, I would probably be using a hammer and chisel to pound out this post. Before we invented writing, I’d just be shouting it out to anyone who could hear and wasn’t a carnivore big enough to kill me. I...
Everyone Ignores the Business Analyst Until They Need Someone to Blame
If you are a business analyst, do you ever get the feeling that stakeholders avoid you? As you are walking around the building, do you see developers avoiding eye contact? Worse yet, do you notice testers actively making detours that take them on a path that will...
Business Analysis in an AI-Augmented World
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace the Business Analyst Job? Disclaimer: I had a dream about this last night, but the warranty expired on my crystal ball while I was sleeping. When I started it up this morning, it just responded “NFI”. According to the online...
You Don’t Need ADD to Be a Business Analyst, but It Helps
A lot of people seem to think that the always-on Internet has a detrimental effect for those of us who suffer Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). I was officially diagnosed with ADD at the age of 49 but I had it all my life. Wellllll . . ., maybe not ALL my life, since...
Motivating Stakeholders to Show Up and Contribute
Do You Struggle Getting Stakeholders to Attend Requirements Workshops and Meetings? I ran across a fascinating book titled “7 Secrets of Persuasion: Leading-Edge Neuromarketing Techniques to Influence Anyone” by James C. Crimmins, PhD. The book is a spell-binding...
Why to NOT Ask WHY: Improving Business Requirements
Asking WHY Can Lead to the Wrong Answer As Business Analysts, we need to know WHY people do what they do to figure out opportunities for improvement. It turns out that asking WHY is a lousy way to find out. If we ask “WHY”, we will get an answer, but there is a good...
My Awakening: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Not Replace Us
KRYPTOS: The Database that Programmed Itself Many years ago (in the pre-PC era), I designed and developed a self-learning program called KRYPTOS. Without going into killer detail, KRYPTOS was a program that stored its own source code in a database that KRYPTOS itself...
Business Analysis is a Corporate Colonoscopy
I called a Subject Matter Expert recently to schedule a meeting to discuss her business requirements for a new product. She replied that she was about as excited about that meeting as she was about scheduling an invasive, minor medical procedure she needed since she...
Lean Requirements for Agile Development
Lecture 8 of “Finding and Writing Requirements Using Lean Use Cases”
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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User Stories: A Collaboration Tool for Business and IT
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Requirements Gathering with Use Cases for Business Analysts
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