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A few weeks ago, I was travelling home from London on a rush hour train. The train journey was scheduled to last a good couple of hours, so I took my seat, booted up my laptop and prepared to use the time productively. I was getting into “the zone” and was really making progress when [...]
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It has been said multiple times that the primary difference between the novice and expert analyst lies in the ability to recognize and apply patterns to solve problems. A pattern describes a recurring problem and the core of a reusable solution to that problem. I’ve recently identified a pattern in my work, thanks to a [...]
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As human beings, each of our time on this planet is finite. We know that time is precious, and we want to spend it doing things that make us happy. For many of us, one aspect of happiness is the ability to make a positive difference, to help put other people into a better position than [...]
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After 4 weeks of meandering our way through the BABOK, we finally begin at the beginning. This is not to promise, however, that we’ll take it sequentially from here. I think there is great value in pulling the tasks out individually and looking at them out of the BABOK context. While the knowledge areas hold [...]
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I started this series on “Building BA Maturity” back in January of this year and I’ve really enjoyed all the interviews and conversations with so much of the talent and insight in our community. From Bob Prentiss to Ellen Gottesdiener. From Peter Johnson to Thea Turray and James Taylor. I’ve had a blast and learned [...]
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Reader Question: Is the term “best practice” a misleading buzzword? A current process is normally referred to as “best practice” until analysis is done to identify a new “best practice.” So was the former process not the “best practice” at all and can you reach a point of diminishing returns on the analysis/improvements that could [...]
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It has become a good habit for me to review the projects completed over the last financial year. The company I’m at has recognized my contribution over the finished year in a very positive way. The business stakeholders expressed their positive feedback and intention to engage me in the new projects in the coming year. [...]
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In the cool logical realm of technology, we find no shortage of passionate “movements” that take on the fervor of religious wars or fanatical political ideologies. Mac vs PC was the big brawl back in the 80′s. Then it was Java vs Microsoft. And then we had the web browser wars. And then the Human [...]
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There have been bounteous discussions around the need for new life to be breathed into business analysis methodologies. I have chosen to stay away from the agile versus scrum versus waterfall versus iterative versus I-don’t-care debate. I was always of the opinion that these discussions were intuitive and unnecessary. I was wrong. Business is changing. [...]
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This installment in the Building BA Maturity series, picks up where the last one on Business Process left off. This month, it’s all about Business Rules. And as many of us know, in the domain of requirements gathering and definition, “Rules” truly rule. Or, so says many a thinker in the area now commonly referred [...]
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