Entries for February 2017

Consider an agile project on the other hand. Agile projects do not require massive documentation in advance. Moreover, in agile projects, the business owner might communicate directly with the agile team (developers) and sometimes the agile teams are even co-located, which makes the communication between business owner and agile team easier.

So, there is no role of a Business Analyst in agile projects you say!

There’s a high premium on knowing how to craft great definitions. Every business analyst should know how. To get you started, here are some basic criteria for great business definitions:

• It should be easy to give examples for the thing defined, but there should be no counterexamples.
• Each definition should communicate the essence of what a thing is, not what it does, how it’s used, or why it’s important.
• The definition of a thing should focus on its unique characteristics.
• Each thing you define should be distinguishable from every other thing you define using the definition alone.
• Each definition should be concise and as short as possible without loss of meaning. A definition should be readable.

This is the time for the BA community to expand its capabilities and provide critical value to the organization. With a massive 86% of global CEOs reporting a lack of time to think strategically about the forces of disruption and innovation shaping their company’s future, businesses leaders must lean on the evolving capabilities of the business analysis community.

The causes of chaos are unpredictable behaviors that arise from individuals, teams, or systems. Behaviors portrayed by the mentioned three components affect how an organization is able to handle challenges and problems. By allowing individuals and teams to portray their own behaviors in the working environment, different components of an organization may either work properly or experience failure. In the subsequent sections, we will elaborate on some mechanisms that trigger chaos in an organizational context.