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Maturing your BA Practice

Building a mature business analyst process involves investing in your practice, people, and tools to create a sustainable business analyst team within your organization.

BAs make the world a better place

by Ryan Knapton on January 25, 2012 · 0 comments

in Leading Organizational Change,Maturing your BA Practice,Positive Attitude

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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BA Stories: The BABOK might not be a methodology, but the BA still needs one (BABOK 2.1)

by Laura Brandenburg on October 31, 2011 · 6 comments

in BA Stories,Business Analysis Planning,Maturing your BA Practice,Requirements Planning and Management

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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The Future of Business Analysis: Innovation and Creativity

by Curtis Michelson on October 27, 2011 · 3 comments

in Leadership,Maturing your BA Practice,Professional Development Strategy

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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Help a BA! Are Best Practices Really Best?

by Kent McDonald on September 28, 2011 · 4 comments

in Help a BA,Maturing your BA Practice,Requirements Planning and Management

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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Why business analysts need to know more than business analysis

by SergeyKorban on September 22, 2011 · 3 comments

in Domain Knowledge,Maturing your BA Practice,Professional Development Strategy

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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Agile And The New Business Analyst Manifesto

by Curtis Michelson on July 7, 2011 · 25 comments

in Agile BA Practices,Maturing your BA Practice

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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The best methodology is freedom

by Nik Gebhard on June 16, 2011 · 18 comments

in Engaging Project Leaders,Maturing your BA Practice,Problem Solving

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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Do you know the rules for Business Rules?

by Curtis Michelson on June 9, 2011 · 0 comments

in Business process,Maturing your BA Practice,Requirements Analysis

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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BAs in a BPM world – What We Need To Know

by Curtis Michelson on April 7, 2011 · 6 comments

in Business process,Maturing your BA Practice

If you were to assess the Building Business Capability (BBC 2010) event based solely on who showed up in the vendor showcase, you might rightly conclude, the event was all about Business Process.  The main sponsors for the event are heavyweights in the BPM arena: Additional big players and tool vendors (Progress Software, AgilePoint, Experian, [...]

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What everybody ought to know about the BABOK

by Laura Brandenburg on April 4, 2011 · 6 comments

in Maturing your BA Practice

Very often I talk to business analysts about creating or improving their requirements process. And very often I receive this same question: Should we use the BABOK® process? The idea that the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® contains a business analysis or requirements development process is a common misconception. The BABOK professes to do no such [...]

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