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    <title>Better Projects - Modern Analyst Edition</title>
    <description>Occaisional posts from my BA+PM blog specifically about business analysis.</description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:39:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Carnival of Business Analysts #8 - Enterprise architecture</title>
      <description>Want to learn more about enterprise architecture?

See our latest Carnival.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:18:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Blogger wanted to take over stewardship of The Carnival of Business Analysts</title>
      <description>I am looking fomr someone to take over the Carnival of Business Analysts which I have been running at Better Projects.  If you have a blog arnd are intersted in this feature, get in touch.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:20:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Carnival of Business Analysts #7: Solution Assessment and Validation</title>
      <description>Another edition of the Carnoval of Business analysts has been published.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:08:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>26 reasons why projects succeed or fail</title>
      <description>Below is a list of 26 reasons why projects succeed or fail.  THe challenge for you is to work out what you can do about them.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:32:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Techniques for Requirements Specifications</title>
      <description>See a Requirements Specifications template and read tips for good documentation.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:04:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ethics and the Business Analyst</title>
      <description>I wrote this presentation about project management.  Because Business Analysts are part of the project leadership team it can be directly translated to the Business Analyst role.  Have a  read and comment if you have a view on ethics and the role of the BA.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:37:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Requirements Elicitation</title>
      <description>I found this excellent presentation on REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION on Slideshare</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:39:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Volunteer for an open source project?</title>
      <description>Is anybody interested in volunteering their analysis and requirements management skills to an open source project?</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:11:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Australian IIBA Events, March 2008</title>
      <description>IIBA Events, March 2008&lt;br&gt;
Melbourne = Thu Mar 13, 5.30pm,  Other cities tba (check the IIBA site)&lt;p&gt;

Topic: Enterprise Analysis – How to Analyse the Business you work for and cater your Requirements to fit. &lt;br&gt;
Speaker: Shane Hastie, MIM, CBP. &lt;br&gt;
Read his paper; What Makes Information Systems Projects Successful?&lt;br&gt;
To Register: Go to the "Events" page at http://www.australia.theiiba.org</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:55:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Business Analysts Needed  - Everywhere!</title>
      <description>A new survey highlights the importance of proper requirements management

The study suggested many companies are working on an ad-hoc basis. More than half "did not have professional, trained staff dedicated to the function of getting requirements, and the vast majority view the process of getting requirements to be inefficient," the report states.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:57:04 GMT</pubDate>
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