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The FDA Requirements for Medical Devices from a Business Analyst’s Perspective

Jun 02, 2025

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If you’re a Business Analyst assigned to a medical device development project, intended for the US market, understanding the FDA’s approval process is critical to ensure that product requirements, documentation, and risk controls are aligned with compliance expectations. This article out...

Tariffs Reloaded: What Trump’s 2025 Trade Agenda Teaches Business Analysts About Strategic Friction

Tariffs are not just economic instruments—they’re strategic signals. For business analysts, Trump's latest trade measures are more than policy—they’re a...

Designing with Least Privilege: A BA’s Guide to Role and Access Modeling.

Integrating least privilege into business analysis is critical for developing secure, well-governed systems. When role modeling is handled early, business analysts help reduce unne...

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Defining Scope with Feature Levels and Events (Scope Part 2)

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The context diagram and the use case diagram are two useful techniques for representing scope. This article describes two other methods for documenting scope: feature levels and system events.

Five Steps To Prototyping A Metrics Capability For Your Business Organization

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Opportunities abound for new and experienced analysts to advance their careers if they are willing to increase their knowledge of analytics, metrics, and Business Intelligence. In the meantime, following these five steps will help get you and your organization on your way to being a well-measured one.

KPIs for Business Analysts

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Business analysts’ performance and how we could measure it appeared to be a hot topic of interest for the Business Analysis community. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” (Peter Drucker) – this statement hides lots of questions for the Business Analysis managers, like what to measure, how to assess, quantifiable or qualifiable metrics to use?

Requirements - Prerequisites

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Often I come across situations where a BA is unprepared or under-prepared in approaching the requirements elicitation process. This leads to irritated business users, incomplete requirements, significant delays, reworks, and poor opinion about BA's in general. I decided to put together a list of prerequisites that a BA must complete before commencing requirements elicitation process.

Changeover strategy: Better have one!

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Once requirements analysis is completed, Business Analyst has all the information needed for a well-running function. Further actions for design, development, test and eventually roll-out are conduct accordingly. Usually and unfortunately, because of the rush of ongoing project execution no one thinks about the roll out activities until the end of the project plan and when the PM starts to drill down the roll out plan in details, project team face with the big nasty surprise of new requirements necessary for the selected software changeover (a.k.a. software adoption) strategy. Cost increase, delays, unmet deadlines create the nightmare one by one.

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Templates & Aides: find and share business analysis templates as well as other useful aides (cheat sheets, posters, reference guides) in our Templates & Aides repository. Here are some examples:
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As Business Analysts in Agile teams, we often hear about Definition of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done (DOD). But beyond the buzzwords, these two concepts are powerful tools to drive clarity, consistency, and quality in our work. Definition of Ready ensures a user story is truly ready for development. It answers: Is this story clear, feasible...

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I have always loved cooking. I learned from my Grandma June and her kitchen was her sanctuary, a small, warm sunlit space filled with jars of spices, stacks of cookbooks, and the comforting smell of something always on the stove or baking in the oven. Grandma June was as great a cook as she was a teacher to me. She never followed a recipe “to...