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BA Practice

Business analyst managers and team leads build a business analysis process and integrate those processes with other organizational activities, from business change to marketing to software development. Practices can range from immature and inconsistent to formal and well-defined.

You could be running the company

by Laura Brandenburg on July 18, 2011 · 11 comments

in Leading Organizational Change,Marketing your value

Last week in the IIBA Career Call-In Show, we discussed leadership for BAs and, specifically, how BAs (whether they have the authority of a lead/manager role or not) are well-positioned to be leaders within their organization. I mentioned a couple of times how leadership is getting pushed down in organizations as complexity increases the sheer [...]

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When does coaching become detrimental to project success?

by Ryan Knapton on July 14, 2011 · 7 comments

in Managing Business Analysts

I was sitting with my wife the other day, enjoying a bright summer’s afternoon and having a bit of a chat. We were discussing our experiences during interviews, and chuckling about certain questions that inevitably get bandied around during the process (yes, we are nerds!). One question that always pops up is about teamwork: are [...]

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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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Stop fire-fighting! Breaking the organizational feedback loop

by Adrian Reed on July 6, 2011 · 10 comments

in Leading Organizational Change

Urgent vs. Important I’m sure at some point in your career you will have either been trained on or read about personal effectiveness.  One of the common tools that is used in prioritisation is the “Urgency vs. Importance” graph that appears in Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.  The theory in Covey’s book [...]

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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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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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