Apr 05, 2020

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Everyone’s crazy busy when you’re launching a new project, and taking the time to study existing bodies of knowledge doesn’t seem like real work. However, “doing nothing” while you examine the lessons of the past is a high-yield investment in your own future. An overcon...

Business Analysts Can Play a Central Role in Solving the Coronavirus Pandemic

As the pandemic continues to upend life around the world, data, big and small, takes a central role in mobilizing the right efforts to prevent a much greater calamity. And as peopl...

Why Modeling Is an Essential Business Analysis Technique

Visual analysis models provide a powerful set of tools that let business analysts depict system information at various levels of abstraction. These models serve as an aid to unders...

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Neetu

Requirement vs specification

As a business analyst, we capture client requirements in different documents like BRD (business requirement document), FSD (functional specification document) and SRS (software requirement specification). If we are capturing the requirements in these documents, then why the document nomenclature is different? The answer is Yes. We are capturing the...

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Jason White

RPA and Chatbots: Two Intersecting Parts of AI

With time, we have evolved from oiled lamps to ever-present electricity, printing every page manually to now producing thousands of copies a day and so on. But what is the one thing these distinct things have in common? Yes, technology.One such branch of technology that has crossed leaps and bounds and turned into a working technology fr...

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Digital Business Analysis

The Value Chain of Digital Business

Nowadays, companies like Audi and HSBC, use IT systems in everything they do. Does that make them to be IT companies rather than banks? Most would probably agree that HSBC is a bank, just as Audi is a car manufacturer. But what about digital banks such as Chime or companies offering digital products? In digital companies, most of the employees work...

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MA Blog - Selected Posts

What will you do to increase your value as a Business Analyst in 2009?
I’ve had the chance to interview numerous candidates for business analyst positions and there is one question I like to ask every one of them: “Wha... Read More...

Why I Do This
I was at a talk yesterday by American artist Lawrence Weiner. He spent half the time saying there was nothing he had to say about his art; the next ha... Read More...

Continuing a project in the penumbra...
INTRODUCTION Being dropped in the middle of a project that is already in a bad shape (over budget, over schedule and under compliance) is not easy (o... Read More...