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Leadership

Leadership as a business analyst takes many facets. Leadership is about enabling others to be successful. We explore the qualities that engender leadership in business analysts.

Join Your Distributed Team in Virtual Celebration

by Joan Davis on August 11, 2011 · 1 comment

in Engaging IT,Engaging the Business,Managing Business Analysts

Once upon a time, when the world was young and co-workers shared the same four walls, we celebrated special occasions and important milestones together with games, food, and laughter.    However, for decades now we’ve enjoyed the geographical freedom brought on by digital communication, working anywhere in the world, courtesy of a simple data line or mobile hot spot, and with [...]

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We are all part of the conversation, from inception to design and beyond

by Adriana Beal on August 10, 2011 · 4 comments

in Engaging the Business,Requirements Analysis,Requirements Elicitation,Requirements Validation

In my last post, Help a BA! How do I get stakeholders to focus on business requirements?, I wrote: As discussed above, it’s not only OK, but expected that the business side will be involved in defining the solution that will be built to address a business problem or opportunity. The solution requirements, which describe [...]

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Beware: You get what you measure!

by Adrian Reed on August 3, 2011 · 11 comments

in Business process,Problem Solving

There’s an old expression that says “you get what you measure”.  This may be a little clichéd, but it generally holds true within organizations and processes. It’s human nature to shoot for the objectives that have been set, and it is human nature to pay attention to the metrics which are being measured. If metrics [...]

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Help a BA! How do I avoid appearing meek when starting a new job?

by Laura Brandenburg on August 1, 2011 · 38 comments

in Engaging the Business,Help a BA,Marketing your value

Michelle asks: Could you provide tips to not appear ‘meek’ in interviews and during your first days on the job? When I start a new job I’m usually quiet while I listen and gather information. I am called a sunny person because I smile and talk positively around everyone. So, the context is from other [...]

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The Business Analyst: How to Influence Without Authority

by AaronWhittenberger on July 13, 2011 · 5 comments

in Creating alignment

Just by nature of our work and our title “Business Analyst,” quite often the BA is put in a situation where they must influence others without being given the proper authority to do so. The PM is given the “Manager” title; everybody knows they are in charge. The BA is given the “Analyst” title which [...]

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Could we use more BAs in the healthcare industry?

by Laura Brandenburg on July 11, 2011 · 18 comments

in Enabling informed decision-making

Business analysts solve problems and one of the biggest problems in the US right now is quality, affordable healthcare. Up front, I’ll admit myself as relatively uninformed. I get as frustrated listening to debates about healthcare (typically captured as a discussion about health insurance which is just one possible solution to the real problem) or [...]

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Are you taking care of the most important person?

by Laura Brandenburg on July 4, 2011 · 15 comments

in Positive Attitude,Professional Development Strategy

These past few months have been busy ones for me. I’ve finished building the Launching Your BA Career course content and  launched enrollment for two new courses. The last two weeks in particular were quite intense — we closed on a house, attended two prenatal appointments, I finished enrollment on Launching Your BA Career, finished [...]

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Help a BA! Is there an advantage to an introverted or an extroverted personality?

by Michelle Swoboda on June 30, 2011 · 33 comments

in Becoming a BA,Communication,Help a BA

A reader asks: In order to elicit and elaborate requirements, communicate, facilitate, negotiate, present, etc., is there an advantage to being introverted or extroverted in personality? Michelle’s answer: What a great question and honestly I believe that you can find advantages for both personalities when you are a BA. As with all people, everyone reacts [...]

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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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Potato Pahhtahto…Why is Nomenclature Important?

by DougGtheBA on June 8, 2011 · 4 comments

in Communication,Requirements Analysis

We ask the questions that people having been avoiding for years while they were trying to look smart. I read an article today from our respected colleague, Yaaqub Mohamed about the importance of data analysis as part of a good analyst’s tool belt. Well that is not exactly how he put it, but you get [...]

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