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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, 08 Feb 2012 00:56:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to write Entity Relationship Diagrams</title>
      <description>Below is a primer in writing entity relationship diagrams.  Have fun.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:59:51 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.&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/78/EntryId/118/Carnival-of-Business-Analysts-8-Enterprise-architecture.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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.&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/78/EntryId/81/Blogger-wanted-to-take-over-stewardship-of-The-Carnival-of-Business-Analysts.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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.&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/MySpace/MyBlog/tabid/93/EntryId/76/Carnival-of-Business-Analysts-7-Solution-Assessment-and-Validation.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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.&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/MySpace/MyBlog/tabid/93/EntryId/74/26-reasons-why-projects-succeed-or-fail.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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.&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/78/EntryId/70/Techniques-for-Requirements-Specifications.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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.&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/78/EntryId/68/Ethics-and-the-Business-Analyst.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/78/EntryId/64/Requirements-Elicitation.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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?&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/78/EntryId/63/Volunteer-for-an-open-source-project.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</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&lt;a href=http://www.modernanalyst.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/78/EntryId/62/Australian-IIBA-Events-March-2008.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:55:22 GMT</pubDate>
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