EDITOR'S NOTE 10 BA Trends, 5 Steps to Better Requirements, Enhance BPM w/ Business Rules Featured articles showcased in this issue: > 10 Key Business Analysis Trends to Guide You in 2010 > Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice > Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How > Planning your own BA Succession BA Events: > Webinar: Enhancing Business Process Management with Business Rules > Webinar: 5 steps to better quality requirements – with Ian Alexander > Webinar: Leveraging Visualization at Genentech – An Agile Case Study Also in this issue: > More Business Analyst Humor > Even more Resources for Business Analysts > New Interview Questions - Adrian Marchis, Editor
FEATURED ARTICLES 10 Key Business Analysis Trends to Guide You in 2010 by Glenn R. Brûlé, ESI International The signs of maturity in the business analysis discipline showed themselves in myriad, sometimes subtle, ways last year. Further leaps toward maturity are reflected in the 10 BA trends for 2010. These trends represent the lessons learned and an increased recognition of the business value BA provides through guiding the enterprise in meeting its objectives... Read more...
Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice by Rolf Götz, Systems Engineer Extreme Inspections are a low-cost, high-improvement way to assure specification quality, effectively teach good specification practice, and make informed decisions about the requirements specification process and its output, in any project. The method is not restricted to be used on requirements analysis related material; this article however is limited to requirements specification... Read more...
Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How by Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg, KPI LLC Does the business perceive business rules as a true organizational asset? Are they visible, valuable, and universally accepted as data is? Above all, does business rule management attract and sustain enterprise-wide high-level management attention? In truth, many organizations are not there yet. It helps to rethink it – take it up a notch.... Read more... Planning your own BA Succession by E.L. 'Ted' Hardy, Analyst Supervisor If you've ever been a manager or above in a corporation, you've probably been exposed to the concept of Succession Planning. The basic idea is that all managers should have some idea of who is willing and able to step into your shoes once you are promoted into a new position or change your career focus. Succession planning is just as important for BAs as it is for managers... Read more... UPCOMING WEBINARS & EVENTS Webinar: Enhancing Business Process Management with Business Rules Thu, Feb 18, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific (6:00 PM GMT) Register Now! 5 steps to better quality requirements – with Ian Alexander Thu, Feb 25, 2010 2:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM GMT) Register Now! Leveraging Visualization at Genentech – An Agile Case Study Tue, Mar 16, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific (6:00 PM GMT) Register Now! MORE FROM ModernAnalyst.com More Informative Articles & Blog Posts > Complex Project Management - What’s All the Fuss About? > Root Cause Analysis: Using the Five Whys > Mitigating the Risk of Story Point Drift > Blurring the Lines between Business and IT
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