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“Let’s add AI” is not a requirement. It’s a vague wish that can turn into a costly prototype, a security headache, or an embarrassing production incident if the basics aren’t defined up front.  Business Analysts are in the best position to prevent that outcome...
“Let’s add AI” is not a requirement. It’s a vague wish that can turn into a costly prototype, a security headache, or an embarrassing production incident if...
An inflection point. A forcing function. A once-per-civilization opportunity to prove that human judgment, contextual understanding, and adaptive intelligence remain indispensable ...
This article describes using a Requirements-Friendly Data Dictionary (RFDD) as an alternative to representing a software solution’s data-related requirements as User Stories,...

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In at the deep end So, you’ve just heard you’re going to be the Business Analyst on an Agile team that’s going in to a Discovery and it’s your first one.  For my first Discovery, it was daunting let me tell you. I already knew quite a few tools and techniques a BA should use during the lifecycle of a project, but wha...
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Customers are demanding better service and they know they can get it and BAs have a duty to provide it through Lean Business Analysis (LBA). Not because customers see better service from a business’s competitors. But because they get it from all the other companies they interact with in their daily lives as consumers of Uber and Apple and Amazon and Netlfix and many more. They don’t care that one company is a bank and Uber’s an app.

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I understand that the business analyst does not have the authority to make decisions about the project or the product, but the business analyst does make decisions. What are the decisions that a business analyst has to make throughout the solution life cycle?
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CBAP certification is undoubtedly the most coveted designation globally among the Business analysts.

Even though work experience is one of the requirements of CBAP® as a prerequisite, the CBAP® examination needs you to have excellent practical knowledge of the business analysis concepts and the ability to relate BABOK® knowledge to practical scenarios/cases.

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How can a business analyst mindset transform the practice surrounding good retrospectives, create an engaging meeting, and promote active change across their team? There’s no tried and true formula to a Retrospective, but I have found the ones that are the most successful rely on the characteristics and practices of good BAs. Thus, conducting Retrospectives that are data driven, clear, honest, creative, and experimental. Why? 

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Templates & Aides

Templates & AidesTemplates & 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:
* Requirements Template
* Use Case Template
* BPMN Cheat Sheet

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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...
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...
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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