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» FEATURED: US Healthcare – Online Resources for the Business Analyst
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| Did you know that you could make a positive impact in people’s lives by working as a Business Analyst (BA)? By describing data flows, writing use cases, creating diagrams, re-engineering current processes or mapping the system’s data outputs and inputs, you could make a change in somebody’s life. As impossible as it sounds, it is happening on a dai... |
» Who Makes the Best Systems Analysts?
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| Over the last four decades I have met a lot of Systems Analysts in a lot of different industries. Some impressed me greatly by their knowledge of their business and the systems they designed, but I have also met a lot of duds along the way. When I think about the better ones, I consider the attributes they share which I can narrow down to three are... |
» FEATURED: So you want to be a Business Analyst?
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| So you want to be a Business Analyst?
“Analyst – analyse thyself….”
Introduction
This is what Business Analysts do in the real world when embarking on a new project: they analyse…
Why? Why are we doing this project - what is the business problem/need and so what measures and targets for those measures will define what success ... |
» Is Systems Development an Art or a Science?
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| Good question! What do you think?
This is an important question which is ultimately at the heart of a lot of the problems in systems and software development. There is one camp that believes development to be an art form requiring free-spirited creative types of people, and another camp believing it to be a science requiring people that are more d... |
» FEATURED: Is the BA an endangered species with the growth of Agile?
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| First, I'm a project focused software developer, team lead, designer, architect, jack of all trades, who has been on projects that have used various methodologies over the years, including of late some agile projects.
I'm not a big blog reader, or a big blogger, but like most people I have an opinion on things, and for some reason that opinio... |
» Business Analysts Should be Corporate Assets
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| A project manager's first task after being appointed to an IT development is to seek out a business analyst to gather requirements. After that, it's on to the development and then the implementation. It's the way it's done. It's the way it's always been done.
But business analysts are not used optimally if they are only used to "gather" require... |
» FEATURED: Craftsmanship in Business Systems Analysis
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| Recently I wrote a paper on the general state of craftsmanship which was geared more for public consumption as opposed to any specific industry. To my way of thinking, craftsmanship is a universal concept that touches all industries, regardless if they are product or service related. This resulted in a flurry of e-mails to me questioning how ... |
» Craftsmanship: Its Cultural and Managerial Implications
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| "Craftsmanship = (Knowledge + Experience + Attitude) X Success"
- Bryce's Law
The purpose of this essay is to review the state of craftsmanship in the 21st century, determine if it still has merit in today's corporate culture, and if so, devise recommendations for perpetuating it.
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Before we go further, let's examine what exactly we mean... |
» The Business Analysis Hysteria
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| In Toronto, Canada - January 3, 2005: The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) made available components of the world's first Body of Knowledge for Business Analysis. Since then a simple Google search for "business analyst" reveals that these professionals are in high demand. There are openings at banks, telecoms, retailers, insuranc... |
» Guiding Hands for Business Analysts
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| Mentoring ensures newly trained business analysts are immediately productive.
What can project leaders and managers offer employees hoping to carve out careers as business analysts? What path do business analysts follow? Do they simply attend training courses, shuffling through the process from one end to the other, emerging on the far side as qua... |
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