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Adriana Beal

How to add value to a project using smart knowledge sharing strategies (Part I)

by Adriana Beal on February 23, 2011 · 12 comments

in Agile BA Practices,Maturing your BA Practice,Requirements Specifications

Is there value in keeping system documentation up-do-date? Keeping system documentation up-to-date is a challenge faced by many business analysts. In discussion forums, it is common for this concern to be raised in questions such as, “How do you avoid the problem of having only one or two BAs with full understanding and latest information [...]

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Using performance objectives and measures to improve requirements processes

by Adriana Beal on December 9, 2010 · 0 comments

in Leading Organizational Change,Maturing your BA Practice

Considering the benefits that a disciplined approach to business analysis can bring to organizations, it is hard to understand why so few of them spend the time and effort necessary to establish performance objectives for the BA work, and to develop a solid performance measurement system to monitor progress toward those objectives. Organizations that push [...]

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Using performance measures to fix business analysis problems and identify opportunities for improvement

by Adriana Beal on October 6, 2010 · 10 comments

in Managing Business Analysts,Maturing your BA Practice

It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight. –Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, in Freakonomics Many people like to stay away from [...]

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How to become a business analyst when you have an IT background

by Adriana Beal on September 1, 2010 · 13 comments

in Becoming a BA,Help a BA

You are a good software engineer, database manager, or software quality assurance professional who recently discovered that business analysis is the role you enjoy the most. How do you go from a technical role to a business analysis role? This is a problem faced by many aspiring business analysts, and even by people who already [...]

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Is the CBAP® right for you?

by Adriana Beal on August 4, 2010 · 31 comments

in CBAP,Professional Development Strategy

Many business analysts and aspiring BAs ask me if I think that becoming a Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®, offered by the International Institute of Business Analysis – IIBA® ) would help their careers. I’m offering my opinion here based on experience on both sides of the table: as a business analyst looking for a [...]

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How to successfully sell your initiatives to your boss

by Adriana Beal on July 7, 2010 · 9 comments

in Engaging Project Leaders,Marketing your value

In my previous article for Bridging the Gap, I wrote about the importance of right-sizing your initiatives to get beyond a career plateau as a business analyst. A reader left a comment saying, “if your management listens, you can think about taking initiative, else, its just a waste of time and energy”. That comment made [...]

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How to get beyond a limited business analyst role

by Adriana Beal on June 2, 2010 · 7 comments

in Marketing your value,Professional Development Strategy

It’s common for me to receive emails from business analysts who are feeling frustrated with their current situation at work, all related to the same theme: the limited business analyst role they are given in their organizations. Frequent complaints include: In my company the BA is involved in projects only when all the important decisions [...]

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The benefits of using a wiki to manage requirements

by Adriana Beal on May 5, 2010 · 55 comments

in Maturing your BA Practice,Requirements Planning and Management

In this previous article I started to answer an excellent question posed by John Davis: Short of hiring a company such as IAG, how can we as BAs best help our organisation – or a client organisation for those of us in IT Services – develop more maturity in requirements definition and management? In that [...]

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3 ways to improve your marketability as a BA

by Adriana Beal on April 7, 2010 · 11 comments

in Help a BA,Professional Development Strategy

Editor’s Note: This month, Adriana tackles 3 reader questions that have recently come in via the “Ask a BA” forum. This reminds us that though our individual challenges are unique they are also shared with others in the BA community. Bridging the Gap readers write: I’ve been doing functional testing, requirements gathering, and functional support [...]

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Building a better business analysis practice

by Adriana Beal on March 3, 2010 · 5 comments

in Maturing your BA Practice

John Davis writes: We’ve been looking at IAG’s BA Benchmark 2009 that deals with the impact of poor requirements practices on project and organisational success. Short of hiring a company such as IAG, how can we as BAs best help our organisation – or a client organisation for those of us in IT Services – [...]

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