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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.

What are the next steps for a BA Center of Excellence?

by Jenni Doyle on March 31, 2011 · 4 comments

in Marketing your value,Maturing your BA Practice

Reader question: In trying to create a Center of Excellence, we have created templates for requirements documentation, use cases, stakeholder analysis, use Visio as the software for flowcharting and identified a standardized process for requesting BAs and identifying the high-level scope of work to be used for prioritization.  What suggestions would you have to help [...]

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Measuring the Performance of Business Analysts – Book Review

by Laura Brandenburg on March 22, 2011 · 1 comment

in Managing Business Analysts,Maturing your BA Practice

I haven’t typically been a big fan of measurement programs As a reviewer of early drafts of Adriana Beal’s eBook, Measuring the Performance of Business Analysts (2010), I approached the topic with a bit of trepidation. I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences and can relate to the “measurement wariness” that concerns many [...]

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

by Adriana Beal on March 17, 2011 · 5 comments

in Communication,Maturing your BA Practice,Requirements Planning and Management

In How to add value to a project using smart knowledge sharing strategies (Part I), we discussed the many reasons for having up-to-date system information available for business and technical stakeholders in order to avoid a dependency created when only the BA is capable of answering questions about software behavior and other project details. In [...]

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Coming Of Age, Part 2 – Learn, Share, Stretch and Grow

by Curtis Michelson on March 3, 2011 · 0 comments

in Marketing your value,Maturing your BA Practice

As someone once said, “There’s only one thing better than learning from your own mistakes.  That’s learning from other people’s mistakes.”  And indeed, these days, with rich blogging communities like this one, and so many other forums and networking events for BAs, the ability to learn from others has increased dramatically.  In the first installment [...]

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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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Help a BA! How Do I Propose a Business Analyst Role in My Firm?

by DougGtheBA on February 9, 2011 · 4 comments

in Becoming a BA,Maturing your BA Practice

Reader question: I work for a software firm similar to Bloomberg that develops and sells financial analysis software. I am product specialist and consultant hybrid. I do several tasks similar to that of a Business Analyst (BA) but we are not BAs since we only support the product and not help build the product. After [...]

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Coming Of Age: Building BA Capabilities In 2011 And Beyond

by Curtis Michelson on January 27, 2011 · 11 comments

in Business Analyst Humor,Marketing your value,Maturing your BA Practice

Yesterday, while having lunch with a friend, the CIO of an entertainment enterprise headquartered in Central Florida, I asked what he thought about hiring BAs for his larger projects. His answer was sort of a “huh?”.  At which point, I had to backup and explain the term Business Analyst, and the role they play, and [...]

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How to write a business analyst job description

by Laura Brandenburg on January 24, 2011 · 8 comments

in Managing Business Analysts,Maturing your BA Practice

Job descriptions are a key element of our organizational lives. More often than not, our job descriptions don’t accurately reflect what we do. As managers of business analysts, it’s important to continuously re-evaluate our roles, ensure the responsibilities of each role are contributing to the organization, and look for opportunities to leverage our employees’ skill [...]

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Help a BA! How do I start a new BA team with limited expertise in BA?

by AaronWhittenberger on January 13, 2011 · 3 comments

in Engaging the Business,Maturing your BA Practice

Reader question: My company has recently created Business Analysis Unit with me as junior business analyst and my supervisor as Senior Business Analyst.  However, he left the company even before setting up project plans.  As I am not really familiar with the organisation yet, I am wondering where can I get some project ideas from? [...]

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Stand Back and Deliver: Interview with Kent McDonald

by Laura Brandenburg on January 6, 2011 · 2 comments

in Enabling informed decision-making,Interviews,Maturing your BA Practice

Kent has been doing business analysis activities in some shape for 15 years and held the BA title for the first time 12 years ago. He is currently trying on the title “Business Advisor” at his own company – Knowledge Bridge Partners – a Business Analysis consulting, mentoring, and training company. His goal is to [...]

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