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Pulkit Singhal

Reinventing the Annual Member Survey: A Business Analyst’s Role in Delivering Actionable Insights

In a competitive and rapidly evolving financial landscape, understanding member needs is vital to maintaining strong relationships and delivering meaningful value. Yet for many institutions, especially those with legacy processes, collecting structured member feedback can be surprisingly underdeveloped. This was the case at the Federal Home Loan Ba...

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This entry was published on Jan 24, 2026 / Pulkit Singhal. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Business Process Management (BPM) , Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) , Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA) , Requirements Management and Communication (BABOK KA), Use Cases, Functional Specifications, Business Rules, Systems Analysis, Business Analysis, Interviewing & Hiring Business Systems Analysts, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills, Leadership & Management, User Interface & Usability, SDLC, Process, and Methodologies, Agile Methods, Getting Started as a Business Systems Analyst, Technical Topics, Roles and Responsibilities. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Andrii Siryi

When Should an Analyst Suggest Using Queues in Integrations?

One of the most underrated skills for a business or system analyst in integration projects is knowing when to recommend a message queue — tools like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Azure Service Bus. Let’s be honest: not every integration needs one. But when it does, queues can save your system from chaos. What Queues Actually Solve Messag...

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This entry was published on Oct 28, 2025 / Andrii Siryi. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Business Process Management (BPM) , Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) , Elicitation (BABOK KA), Enterprise Analysis (BABOK KA), Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA) , Requirements Management and Communication (BABOK KA), Use Cases, Functional Specifications. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Andrii Siryi

For Business/System Analysts who work with ERP integrations.

When designing ERP integrations (for AR/AP document flows), Business/System Analysts often face a range of “gotcha” questions — technical, architectural, and sometimes unexpected. Here are some of the real-world questions I ask clients during the API and ERP connector discovery phase: What’s the minimum required ERP v...

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Andrii Siryi

Field Mapping vs. Canonical Data Model — Which One Wins in Integrations?

When building integrations between systems, one of the first architectural choices you’ll face is how to align data between them. Two main approaches dominate this conversation: direct field mapping and the canonical data model. Let’s break them down. Field Mapping: Simple but Fragile Field mapping means you connect each field f...

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Andrii Siryi

YAML-Based Story Mapping

System Analysts who work with integration processes should formulate user stories in a way that diverges from the traditional structure. This is primarily due to the need for a more technical and structured description, which allows for the inclusion of integration-specific details. The user story might need to specify exactly what kind of data ...

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Zach Gemignani

6 Differences Between Data Exploration and Data Presentation

There are big differences between data exploration versus data presentation. And you need to be aware of these differences as you're creating data stories and data presentations. Let’s start by defining our terms: Data exploration means the deep-dive analysis of data in search of new insights. Data presentation means...

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This entry was published on Mar 16, 2022 / Zach Gemignani. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Data Analysis & Modeling, Project Management, Business Analysis, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills, Soft Skills, Leadership & Management, User Interface & Usability, Tools. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Trividh Patel, CBAP

Top 10 Mistakes in Requirements Elicitation

Elicitation involves bringing out or drawing out information. Elicitation is a key task in business analysis as without proper elicitation the requirements for the solution to the business needs cannot be identified. 1. Not understanding underlying business need Organization’s business environment keeps changing with respect to Customer...

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This entry was published on Apr 27, 2021 / Trividh Patel, CBAP. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Elicitation (BABOK KA), Enterprise Analysis (BABOK KA), Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA) , Requirements Management and Communication (BABOK KA), Solution Assessment and Validation (BABOK KA), Project Management, Systems Analysis, Business Analysis, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills, Soft Skills, Leadership & Management, Technical Topics, Roles and Responsibilities. 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.

EA Learning

Does Agile need Architecture to be successful?

On a recent Agile training course, the instructor opened the session by saying “Agile without a plan is just chaos!” I would like to propose that Agile without effective Architecture will eventually lead to chaos, particularly if organisations try to scale their Agile practices without some form of guiding framework. The fundamental r...

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This entry was published on Jan 23, 2018 / EA Learning. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA), Analytical and Problem Solving Skills, Agile Methods, Getting Started as a Business Systems Analyst, Roles and Responsibilities, Tools. Bookmark the Permalink or E-mail it to a friend.

Limor Wainstein

A Day in the Life of a Business Analyst / Marketing Analyst - Differences, Roles, and Tools

Business analysts typically gather and interpret data from many areas within an organization, finding solutions to business problems and improving business processes with all that data. A business analyst may measure and improve on such disparate things as warehouse efficiency and cloud software implementation. A marketing analyst, on the other...

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This entry was published on Jan 07, 2018 / Limor Wainstein. Posted in Business Analysis Planning (BABOK KA). 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