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Entries for October 2020

AI in Testing: Do You Need It? This Article Will Help You Decide!

What Everyone Must Know about AI in Testing Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword that we frequently keep hearing. Its widespread popularity and influence can be understood from the way industries adopting AI in their organization. Whether it’s Healthcare, Automobile, Banking & Financial Services, or Airlines, many industries have st...

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This entry was published on Oct 28, 2020 / Rajesh-N. Posted in Testing & Quality Assurance (QA), Technical Topics, Tools. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Ashish Adike

Product Evaluation Framework for a BA

As a Business Analyst, very often we get into a situation where the Project requires multiple IT Products to be evaluated before implementation and might seek Business Analyst’s recommendation for the same. With the ever-growing range of Products in the market and the marketing promotions associated with some of the products, it’s very ...

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This entry was published on Oct 20, 2020 / Ashish Adike. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Solution Assessment and Validation (BABOK KA), Functional Specifications, Business Analysis, User Interface & Usability, Tools. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

m_anst

How to make the most of Requirement Elicitation

What Does Success Look Like? I challenge Business Analysts to view requestors’ requirements as an opportunity to define success. Too often, teams fall into a trap focused on requestors’ prescriptive requirements that are meant to serve as roadmaps for developers and testers. When you limit your view of requirements to this prescripti...

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This entry was published on Oct 11, 2020 / m_anst. Posted in Project Management, Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Mariya Kotsupalova

Just Another Way to Organize BA Quality Surveys

They say the best criteria of Business Analyst’s success are a happy customer (business) and a happy engineering team. But what does it mean? How can we break down happiness and measure it? These are precisely the questions my 8 BAs team and I tried to answer this year. The result was a surprisingly efficient pair of surveys we developed and ...

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This entry was published on Oct 10, 2020 / Mariya Kotsupalova. Posted in Business Analysis. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

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Jarett Hailes

Three Audacious Goals for Business Analysts in 2013

As we start a new year many of us will take the time to reflect on our accomplishments from 2012 and plan our goals for 2013. We can set small or large goals. goals that will be accomplished quickly or could take several years. For 2013, I think Business Analysts should look to go beyond our traditional boundaries and set audacious goals. Merriam-...

Howard Podeswa

Hey IIBA, What’s Up With That?

Recently, I was asked by the IIBA to present a talk at one of their chapter meetings. I am reprinting here my response to that invitation in the hope that it will begin a conversation with fellow EEPs and BAs about an area of great concern to the profession. Hi xx …. Regarding the IIBA talk, there is another issue that I am considering. It's p...

Adrian M.

BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram

Continuing the ABC series for Business Analysts, Howard Podeswa created the next installment titled "BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram" as an article rather than a blog post. You can find the article here: BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram Here are the previous two posts: BA ABCs: “A” is for Activity Diagram BA ABCs: “B” is for BPMN