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» Why you shouldn’t ignore business analysts

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Does it ever feel like no one really appreciates what you do as an architect? It doesn’t matter what you’re designing, the consensus seems to be that what you do is just a lot of planning and thinking. No one seems to understand how much time and effort you have put into understanding every nook and cranny of the business so that your projects succ...

» Where the Tech Jobs Are

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The U.S. economy is bleeding jobs, but -- at least, so far -- the high-tech industry is something of a safe haven. That's not to say there haven't been tech losses or that it's easy to find an IT job. However, people with the right skill sets and the savvy to sniff out the particular areas of demand are much better positioned than professionals in ...

» Enterprise Business Analysis Is the Solution

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Billions of dollars earmarked for new technologies, at the same time billion-dollar projects are failing. Virtual teams who can’t implement Virtualization. Service Oriented Architecture when customers are no longer oriented towards your services. Where can you turn to? Who can you trust? Enterprise Business Analysis is the solution EBA is Strat...

» Handling Requirements Effectively on Agile Projects

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Why has it been necessary to write so many different, book-length treatises about requirements management on software projects? Is it not possible to develop an approach to handling software requirements that is simple enough to express concisely -- and yet can work with large, complex projects as well as smaller efforts? At the risk of using a...

» A Wiki for Business Rules in Open Vocabulary, Executable English

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The problem of business-IT alignment is of widespread economic concern. As one way of addressing the problem, this paper describes an online system that functions as a kind of Wiki -- one that supports the collaborative writing and running of business and scientific applications, as rules in open vocabulary, executable English, using a browser. ...

» What Makes a Good Business Analyst?

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Good business solutions begin with good business analysis. But what's needed to excel as a business analyst and to get projects started on a good footing? Much has been (and will continue to be) said about the set of skills that go to making a good business analyst. Forrester Research, for example, has published a spreadsheet (called the Busine...

» FEATURED: Lessons Learnt, A Year in Review

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It has been just over a year since I published my book, and that makes it easier for me to measure what has happened since then. I have spent this year visiting many companies and discussing their business analysis function. In some cases, I have performed an assessment on the business analysts as well as the business analysis function within many...

» FEATURED: Putting the User Back in User Acceptance Testing

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Why is it so challenging to get users involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)? Isn’t it called UAT because the users are the main participants? My experience has shown that involving users in all phases of the project, especially UAT, is the best way to ensure project success. This article will present a proven approach to increasing user involve...

» FEATURED: Lessons Learned: Share Them!

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Here we are, the end of another year, and the question I ask always is, what have we learned? If we are not learning something, be it from a success or a failure, or something in-between, then how can we move forward? Information security is something that needs to continuously improve and refine itself, otherwise it will fall behind the curve...

» What is a Business Analyst?

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Today the term Business Analyst is synonymous with a career in the IT industry but the most successful and valuable analysts are those who understand the 'business' rather than those who understand IT. So what exactly is a Business Analyst? What is the Business Analyst’s role? What is the best background for this job? What skill set is required? Wh...

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