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» FEATURED: The Art of Professional Pushback
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| I am not sure if there are many other fields in corporate America that require the finesse necessary to execute the professional pushback as greatly as business analysis. Just by the shear nature of what analysts do, we are constantly uncovering inefficiencies and making recommendations for improvements or enhancements. Sometimes those recommendati... |
» FEATURED: The Sound of Valid Requirements
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| If requirements management practices were songs entering a popularity contest, requirements validation would hardly be a favorite contender. It's easy to understand why: validation is usually a tedious, time consuming task, and, as with nearly every quality control activity, it is supposed to reveal defects, going against our natural desire of bein... |
» FEATURED: A Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise
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| Agile development practices introduced, adopted and extended the XP-originated "User Story" as the primary currency for expressing application requirements within the agile enterprise. The just-in-time application of the user story simplified software development and eliminated the prior waterfall like practices of overly burdensome and overly cons... |
» FEATURED: The SOA Experience for Analysts
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| Most analysts are introduced to SOA in one of three ways; two of which are potentially painful and one of which is actually useful. I’ll let you decide which you would prefer. |
» The Path to Requirements Elicitation
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| The path to requirements elicitation is something that analysts are rarely taught. Everyone knows that it involves interviews and research, but within most organizations, exactly how the interviews and research should be conducted is nebulous. |
» FEATURED: Establishing a Business Analysis Community of Practice, Part 4
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| Babies and Business Analysts go through four stages, as they open their eyes and see.
In Stage 1, with eyes closed, BAs are blind to their organization’s mess.
In Stage 2, as their eyes begin to open, BAs see in black and white: a single process step, template or isolated requirement.
In Stage 3, the mobile movement of the outside world at... |
» FEATURED: Business Analysis Center of Excellence
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| In the twenty-first century, business processes have become more complex; i.e., more interconnected, interdependent, and interrelated than ever before. Businesses today are rejecting traditional organizational structures to create complex communities comprised of alliances with strategic suppliers, outsourcing vendors, networks of customers, and pa... |
» FEATURED: The Potholes of Office Politics
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| A couple of months ago, I was driving along a well-traveled road here in town when my headlights fell upon a large pool of standing water. The little boy in me still loves splashing in puddles, whether on foot or in my car. I smiled at the thought of creating a huge spray. Unfortunately, the harmless puddle of standing water was actually a large po... |
» FEATURED: More Confusing SOA Terms
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| In the last article I covered the term Service to death. In this one I want to go through a number of other SOA Three Letter Acronyms and terms that you may come across and for which you would like to be able to nod knowingly. |
» FEATURED: Business Analyst Career Progression
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| Many business analysts' find themselves in their role quite by coincidence but once there either decide this is a role they love or hate. There are certain requirements (if you'll pardon the cliche) or competencies you must display to be successful in this profession. We will first explore the foundational knowledge and skills needed in the early p... |
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