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The Experts’ Take on Business Analysis and Agile The Experts’ Take on Business Analysis and Agile
If you ask Business Analysts what they think about ‘Agile’, you’re likely to get a mixed bag of answers... With so many different ideas on what Agile is and how Agile impacts the Business Analysis profession, we decided to talk with leading experts in the Agile field and get their opinions on the subject. Read More...

What is a Business Rule? What is a Business Rule?
For business analysts, understanding decision logic from the perspective of business people is key. For that you need business rules. B... Read more...
What the CIO Needs: BA’s and Understanding the Stakeholder What the CIO Needs: BA’s and Understanding the Stakeholder
Business Analysts are required to contribute to a project in a number of ways: primarily by identifying the needs of the target communi... Read more...

More Details on How to Ditch Your Business Rules! More Details on How to Ditch Your Business Rules!
Last time, we proposed that, with business rules, we surely can. The traditional way we manage business rules is time-consuming. It foc... Read more...
Developing a Competency Model for Business Analysts Developing a Competency Model for Business Analysts
Managers who supervise business analysts, particularly in large companies, frequently struggle with creating a competency model for BAs... Read more...

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The Lost Stakeholder Analysis Dimension: Engagement
Stakeholder Analysis is an important and often ongoing activity that Business Analysts perform as part of their duties.  Solution delivery team m... Read More...

Why I Don't Use BPMN
First off, let me just say that I really like the BPMN standard, especially the 2.0 Beta specification.  I find the notation to be a powerful and... Read More...

Root Cause Analysis: Using the Five Whys
Business Analysts are often thrown into projects to help gather requirements around a known, defined problem.  Other times we’re asked to analyze... Read More...


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Quantitative Risk Analysis
I may be overreaching but I include risk analysis as a proper subject of systems analysis. I've done enough TRAs to justify that position—at least to ... Read More...

SAP OnDemand BI
SAP has announced a SaaS BI service that looks ideal for SMBs.  It seems to have all the tricks you'd expect, so it's worth learning about. ... Read More...

Best Practices - Ambiguity
How many times have you experienced a disagreement between colleagues, only find out later in the project that they were both correct. Chances are tha... Read More...

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Beware of the PEA (Process Enforcement Agency)A Business Analyst’s puzzling annual evaluation


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