Business Analysis Knowledge Share

APRIL 2, 2022

In this post I will cover 3 Steps to Conducting Brainstorming Sessions. What is Brainstorming? Brainstorming is an excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The aim of brainstorming is to produce numerous new ideas, and to derive from them themes for further analysis. Why use Brainstorming?

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 9, 2024

Think about how close you should communicate with them and how often. Use different elicitation and analysis techniques that facilitate dialog — diagrams, mockups, visual models, matrices and brainstorm meetings. Create your checklist for a project — think about what tasks/documents are a must for any project. Really enjoyed it!

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

” This innovative approach allows business analysts and teams to tackle complex issues from multiple perspectives, fostering creativity, collaboration, and informed decision-making. Introduction In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, effective decision-making and problem-solving are essential for success.

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Cprime

MARCH 12, 2024

In 2024, the most important answer your organization should be thinking about is generative AI. When two coders collaborate effectively, they can complement each other, bounce ideas back and forth, and reach more creative solutions. Hands down. They may even get things done faster. They may even get things done faster.

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Monday

AUGUST 19, 2022

More and more, creative problem solving is becoming the critical ingredient to project and product success. But while many teams could do with an extra dose of creativity, left to their own devices, creative pursuits can lead to missed deadlines and inflated budgets. Convergent thinking is the rational brother of creativity.

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Monday

AUGUST 12, 2022

These challenges require a little more creativity to overcome. Put another way, they require divergent thinking. Down below, we’ll take a deep dive into the concept of divergent thinking and show you how to use it to tackle challenging problems. What is divergent thinking? Examples of divergent thinking .

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Monday

JULY 1, 2021

Brainstorming is the key to innovation. With brainstorming software, everything related to ideation happens in one place. In this guide, we’ll explain what brainstorming apps do, why you and your team need one, and the 8 features that make up a good ideation software. What is brainstorming software? Flexibility.

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Monday

MARCH 31, 2021

You may think that ‘planning’ and ‘design’ are mortal enemies. Only when you plan thoughtfully can creativity in design flourish. Design planning, also known as design management, is essentially the practice of taming the wild beast of creativity for application in business contexts. Marrying the 2 is an art form in itself.

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The Visual BA

JUNE 21, 2023

Honestly, I like to think that most of the things I write about are not complicated. Brainstorming! Brainstorming!!!!!!!!! Brainstorming Most people think they know how to do this. My wife asked me the other day if we could brainstorm some ideas about something regarding our kids. Ok, I tried.

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My Agile Partner

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Design Thinking, created by Rolf Faste at Stanford in the 1980s, has emerged as a critical approach within businesses to foster innovation. Design Thinking, alongside other methodologies like Lean Startup and Design Sprint, has been integrated into the world of agility to encourage innovation. What is Design Thinking?

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Training ByteSize

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The agile mindset has revolutionised the way management is structured and enabled businesses to react to changes with a more fluid and adaptable way of thinking. Read on to discover more about what this thought process is, the 7 key steps to achieve agile thinking and how project management training can help you get there sooner.

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Passionate BA

APRIL 17, 2023

Thus, I appreciate another reminder from experienced business analysts that we should always think about real business problems first. The article suggests creative wrap-up equivalents based on different scenarios by which your session ends. Usually, this happens closer to the end of the first year of experience.

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Business Analysts

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Divergent Divergent questions encourage creative thinking and brainstorming by asking for a wide range of ideas or solutions. Why do you think the sales figures declined significantly last month? Rhetorical questions can be used as an opening question when starting an elicitation meeting to drive critical thinking.

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Business Analysts

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Divergent Divergent questions encourage creative thinking and brainstorming by asking for a wide range of ideas or solutions. Why do you think the sales figures declined significantly last month? Rhetorical questions can be used as an opening question when starting an elicitation meeting to drive critical thinking.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 11, 2022

For a Business Analyst, elicitation is one of the most fun and creative parts of a project. A few examples: document analysis, questionnaires, prototyping, workshops and brainstorming. But if not done well it can come back to bite us later on. The Australian magpie has extraordinary intelligence. you’re just finding out information.

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Brainstorming. Brainstorming is a technique because it promotes the creative thinking of a group to generate numerous thoughts/ideas/information. It draws on the creativity and experience of a set of participants to generate information in an engaging environment. Key Benefits of Brainstorming.

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Growing Agile

OCTOBER 15, 2021

While there are differences between them, invention, innovation and creativity are part of the same WhatsApp group, and all of them are becoming increasingly necessary in a disruptive world. Stopping is essentially creating space in your innovation process to pause, think and reflect. Alright Stop, Collaborate and Listen.

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

JANUARY 12, 2023

As a business analyst, you will be faced with a variety of challenges and will need to come up with creative solutions to solve them. As a business analyst, you will be faced with a variety of challenges and will need to come up with creative solutions to solve them. Problem Solving for Business Analysts.

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Monday

MARCH 31, 2021

But the creativity needed for problem solving isn’t some mystical muse you can summon by arranging your pencils in a peculiar shape either — no matter how awesome that sounds. It can help you focus your thinking, make new connections, and come up with high-impact ideas. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works.

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Monday

MARCH 31, 2021

People typically use mind maps during a brainstorming session, but they have different use cases, including: Memorization (e.g., In short, mind mapping is a diagram-like thinking tool that helps you analyze your thoughts, logically structure those ideas, and come up with additional points. Or maybe you’re just curious about mind maps.

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Clarasys

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Diversity of thought is the notion that our thinking, opinions and perspectives have been shaped by our lived experiences, cultural backgrounds and personalities. It is important to have different thinkers in an organisation; the analytical individuals, the creatives, the big picture thinkers, and more. Diverse thinking techniques.

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Sisense

JANUARY 15, 2020

Sisense Hackathon 2020 continues our annual tradition of pushing the envelope for innovation, creativity, and collaboration, company-wide. A diverse array of Sisensers with different backgrounds brainstorm wild ideas to build new products and solve problems. . They have all the APIs, SDKs, and tools they need.

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The Uncommon League

MARCH 31, 2020

In the early phases of a design-thinking process, employees working on a project need to set aside their preconceptions about the product or service they are offering. Design thinking strategist Dana Mitroff Silvers recommends bringing videos, audio recordings and photographs to meetings.

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Monday

MARCH 31, 2021

You probably know what a mind map is, even if you don’t think you do. Whether taking down a crime ring or coming up with new SaaS features, we can use mind mapping software tailor-made for brainstorming. That makes you more comfortable thinking about that concept. A mini-brainstorming session, if you will.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Keep reading to find out more about what Karl Wiegers thinks on the topic. Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #37, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of August 2023. This time, the digest is rich with case studies, practical advice, and lots of advanced materials. System vs. Solution: What’s the Difference?

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Userzoom

MAY 28, 2020

External people have freedom with their creativity when brainstorming research ideas or recommendations because they aren’t bogged down with business limitations. Showing your colleagues actual users can make a huge difference to this way of thinking. “Moving day” Why is research outsourced in the first place?

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Business Analysis Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2018

As BA’s, it’s very easy to fall to into the trap of saying ‘I am not creative’. However, when you think of methodologies like Soft System methodology (SSM), most of this is based around converting information in a pictorial format. Everyone can be creative but … we need the right tools. Why do I need to know about it…?

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Monday

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Just randomly completing tasks whenever you think of them is a good way to go out of business. “Oh, As you can see, many companies use task management for marketing campaigns, managing creative, and even HR. The ad copy needs to match the creative and the landing page. Creative and social media management.

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BA Squared

JULY 9, 2020

Decomposing the abstract into details is also referred to as “critical thinking” and sometimes “system thinking”; taking something large, ambiguous, and abstract and breaking into smaller pieces, patterns, and views. Business Analysis Skills from 2012 to 2020. Top 10 Skills for BAs. How curious are you as a BA?

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Bridging the Gap

MARCH 2, 2023

Imagine being able to expand your thinking, create draft documentation with ease, and streamline your work as a business analyst. ” In this video, I’m sharing how to use these tools to expand our thinking and make our job as business analysts way easier! You’ve likely heard about ChatGPT, the free tool released by OpenAI.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Con means “together,” and sentire is commonly translated as “to feel, perceive, think.” To reach consensus, people must understand each other’s perspectives and feel and think together. Consensus is certainly not a silver bullet. Consensus comes from the Latin verb “con-sentire.” Resist the temptation to prematurely reach agreement.

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The Uncommon League

APRIL 28, 2020

Think about how it might impact your project—and follow up with more questions if needed,” he adds. Though video conferencing requires extra effort, when done correctly, the meetings can be useful for conducting brainstorming sessions and focus groups, video observations and virtual interviews and workshops.

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MindsMapped

JULY 22, 2020

2) Have an open mind and don’t think only your way is the only way and there are N ways for a solution to the problem so think,brainstorm and come to a final conclusion. Story : Mentorship’s way to my first offer as a Senior Business Analyst. I decided to switch for a better position as a Business Analyst.

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Monday

APRIL 6, 2021

A tad misleading, but with Monday morning creativity written all over it. Like, brainstorm. Let’s talk about oceanic animals — bear with me; it’s relevant to stakeholder theory, I promise. The stonefish, for example, is a ‘does what it says on the tin’ type of fish. It’s a fish that looks like a stone. Seahorse, however?

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Insight Software

JULY 1, 2021

But by establishing goals with respect to timing and sharing those with the entire team, managers can prompt the kind of creative thinking and aggressive prioritization necessary to move the process forward faster. The accounting month-end close process can be stressful for the finance team in many organizations.

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Monday

APRIL 1, 2021

This is especially useful for developing logical thinking skills and enhancing information retention. As with any other thinking tool, concept maps come with pros and cons. Creative flexibility: concept maps don’t limit you to a specific way of learning. Mind maps are supportive tools for brainstorming. And many more.

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The Uncommon League

MAY 19, 2020

Inception: Customers Guide the Kickoff It's tempting to move from brainstorming to development. Customers play a key role in product development, especially when using the agile management methodology. When you're building prototypes, their opinions help you refine and iterate. And it shouldn’t end there. Listen to their ideas.

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