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Editor’s Note: This month, Adriana tackles 3 reader questions that have recently come in via the “Ask a BA” forum. This reminds us that though our individual challenges are unique they are also shared with others in the BA community. Bridging the Gap readers write: I’ve been doing functional testing, requirements gathering, and functional support [...]
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Reader question(s): I’m trying to become a business analyst. I have several years of professional experience and I’m evaluating training options. I want to help make myself more marketable for business analyst jobs. I think that employers will find it valuable if I can list a BA certification on my resume, but I don’t have [...]
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In a recent interview with Cecilie Hoffman, she spoke about what she saw as the key challenge to the BA profession: The biggest problem in our profession is that people expect business analysts to be the experts. Over time in the same role, business analysts build more domain knowledge and become more narrow. Over time, [...]
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I recently discovered that even after 200 blog posts here, I’ve never written about a post about my beloved use cases! I guess I think that most of what there is to say has already been said. But we’ve each got our own story about how we discovered use cases, what we do with them, [...]
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In my last article, I explained why I don’t see any benefit in moving beyond the term “requirements” when describing the key activities performed by a business analyst. My point was that business requirements and solution requirements represent the logical progression toward establishing a solution for an identified business need. This article from Practical Analyst [...]
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Great business analysts are great communicators. We communicate in meetings, through elicitation, via email, and through our requirements specifications. Verbal and written communication are key competencies for the successful business analyst. I’ve collected together some past lessons on communication. I’m sharing 10 lessons from the archives on communication. Communicating with business stakeholders 1. Always remember: [...]
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I’ve been collecting, consolidating and conjoining the data from several business analysis lessons learned sessions over the last year. My organization is trying to execute some trend analysis over time to see how things are going. That, however, is not what I want to write about, it’s just the trigger. When we were young kids, [...]
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If customers are not receiving what they ask for in a project deliverable, what causes that? Where would everything fall apart to the point that requirements were not being carried out through implementation? Chances are the analyst may have had an incorrect or partially incorrect set of key stakeholders providing input to the requirements. When [...]
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I’ve been working as a consultant in New York City since 2005, performing business analysis activities for client organizations either as a stand-alone service or as part of a larger consulting packaged service related to custom software development. Because of the nature of my role, it’s common for me to start looking for the next [...]
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Doug Hill recently posted about his first 100 days as a business analyst. In this post, he shares his knowledge with one of his readers with some tips for breaking into business analysis. Note from the reader Hi Doug, I recently read your article on Bridging the Gap between Business and IT site about your [...]
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