Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With rising cyber threats, business analysis professionals must stay informed and engaged. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

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BA Times

MAY 10, 2023

Two years ago, my friend asked me what my job role was, and I said that I was a business analyst in Information Technology (IT). However, after all this time, she still doesn’t understand what my job entails.

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A view from business analysis reference guides It’s not new that a good application of business analysis practices (traditional or agile) helps Product Owners improve their day-to-day work. Mainly, product management or ownership should use business analysis within the following points: 1.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 9, 2023

Customer lifetime value and acquisition cost figures can tell your business a great deal about why they lose customers and what they need to do in order to hold onto them. Companies that have revenue information stored in a conventional flat spreadsheet might do well to opt for a relational database like MySQL or Postgres.

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BA Times

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As is quite often the case in situations like this, staff at the gate initially don’t have a great deal of information available to them. In my experience, airport staff will do everything they can to keep customers […] The post Have You Considered “Customer Information Needs” In Your Process?

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Passionate BA

JANUARY 21, 2024

Which sources and people from the domain do I follow, what do I read to improve my knowledge of business analysis, etc? As a result, I created this article to collect all the business analysis resources to follow, tuned to 2024. Five years ago, just a few people had been creating public content on business analysis.

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BA Times

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It resonates with my model of “The Intelligence Life Cycle,” whose first axiom, or postulate, is “Data is measured in context”—a notion that I expanded upon with my second axiom, “Information is organized […] The post Do we understand what Data, Information, and Knowledge are?

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BA Times

JULY 6, 2023

In today’s fast changing world, information, and technology are changing the way organizations and nations operate. The quality of information available to an organization, its ease of use and systems of dissemination can make the difference between organizations that thrive and those that get left behind in the archives of history.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Business Analysis Misconceptions Business Analysis is a profession with a long history. This is why I decided to make a video that discusses the Top five business analysis misconceptions to prevent further confusion. One myth’s goal is to reduce the importance of business analysis because of jealousy.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The use of language models in Artificial Intelligence can leverage the productivity of Business Analysis. link] In this article, I demonstrate how it is possible to use Chat GPT as an assistant (or helper) in executing business analysis tasks based on a case study that deals with developing an application by a startup.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

With its transformative capabilities, machine learning is poised to revolutionize how companies gather insights, make informed decisions, and drive growth.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 13, 2022

Getting Business Analysis Right?—?Model Model It will inspire you to get the business analysis right. You can get the business analysis right. To get business analysis right, you need to have these techniques nailed down: 1. Make sure you hold business analysis work to the highest standard.

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Passionate BA

APRIL 17, 2023

The business analysis digest #34 is here! Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #34, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of the previous weeks. Thus, I appreciate another reminder from experienced business analysts that we should always think about real business problems first.

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Passionate BA

JULY 3, 2023

The business analysis digest #35 is here! Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #35, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of the previous weeks. Hello there! In my humble opinion, it is a brief but helpful overview, more of a taste of a book, which is excellent.

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Passionate BA

MAY 29, 2024

What Is Business Analysis What is business analysis? Who is a business analyst? Because of this, I decided to make a Business Analysis Essentials series on the Passionate Business Analyst YouTube channel, explaining all the basics! and “What do Business Analysts do?”

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Analysts Corner

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Just like me, business analysis also carries a sound that reveals its origin. Similarly, business analysis carries its distinct roots. Developing software is just one part of something more complex: business development. The shift from technology to business focus led to the emergence of business analysis.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The business analysis digest #37 is here! Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #37, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of August 2023. It encourages businesses to prioritize user experience and usability when implementing scrolljacking to balance aesthetics and functionality.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 17, 2023

How to move forward and achieve results in agile software development I’ve seen firsthand how analysis paralysis can derail even the most well-intentioned agile projects. It’s a common problem that can be caused by a number of factors, including: Too much information. Some business analysts are not comfortable with the agile process.

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BA Times

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As a business analyst, you will have lots of information from different sources. Your successful journey in the business analysis field heavily depends on continuous try to increase the quality of your thinking.

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Analysts Corner

AUGUST 7, 2023

Metrics and Data-driven Decision Making While Business Analysis involves data analysis to a certain extent, in Product Management, a deeper dive into metrics and adopting a data-driven approach is crucial in making informed decisions about the product’s direction and performance.

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Dataversity

MARCH 26, 2021

The post What Is Spearman’s Rank Correlation and How Is It Useful for Business Analysis? A positive correlation indicates the extent to which those variables increase or decrease […]. appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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BA Times

JUNE 8, 2024

Documentation is the core part of the business analysis process that provides clarity, standards, and process details that help organizations in decision-making.

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Watermark Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge ( BABOK® Guide v3) is a comprehensive guide to the business analysis profession. It defines a set of competencies essential for a business analyst to bring value to their organization. Why Should a Business Analyst Know the Underlying Competencies Matrix?

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Watermark Learning

JULY 31, 2023

The ever-evolving business world requires reliable guidelines to assess and maximize corporate productivity. In this article, we will explore the nuances of this invaluable resource so you can understand why it’s necessary for anyone involved in business analysis. On this page : What is Business Analysis?

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A reading list for BAs in product teams Many business analysis professionals work in a product setting. Whether you’re collaborating with, or acting as, a product owner, there are product management approaches that are useful for conducting business analysis. I personally love both frameworks.

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Adaptive US

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Many organizations struggle to define clear business rules and efficiently manage stakeholder analysis within information technology projects. Engaging with this content will equip readers with the knowledge needed to enhance their business analysis efforts and improve collaboration with stakeholders.

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BA Careers

JUNE 7, 2023

Why Business Analysis is a Hot Career Choice and How to Get Started In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business world, the role of a business analyst has become increasingly vital. As a result, business analysis has emerged as a hot career choice for those looking to enter the field of business.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 16, 2022

Team Upskilling: Train business analysts on planning, gap analysis, scoping & blueprinting, cost-benefit calculation of new initiatives, solution architecture, modelling, elicitation, requirement management, performance management, and other improvement initiatives. Tools Updating: A business analyst is as good as his/her tools.

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Analysts Corner

JULY 3, 2023

During the ramp-up, your goal is to obtain as much information and knowledge as possible about the domain, the customer, and the project. You’ll need to complete them again as you obtain new information. Plan your business analysis approach During the plan business analysis approach activity, you will list the activities to perform.

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BA Squared

JULY 9, 2020

Business Analysis Skills from 2012 to 2020. To begin, a clarification on the BA role from then to now: In 2012 I called the BA as “A broker of information, getting big picture details from a variety of people, groups, executives, subject matter experts, vendors, technical resources, etc.”. 3) Curiosity .

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BA Times

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Elicitation is a key business analysis skill. Whether it’s one-on-one interviews, workshops, observation or one of the many other techniques, elicitation is a key source of information. As BAs, it’s easy to think that we are highly attuned listeners, carefully scouring the airwaves for tasty morsels of relevant information.

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

JULY 16, 2024

On any project conducting business analysis is not a linear path. On any strategic or tactical effort, there are variations to analysis and factors that need to be considered inorder to achieve the business needs. There are lessons that Business Analysts can learn from the chaos theory.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

And if you’re like most people, that advice has probably been informative but not genuinely actionable. As a result, our resumes are full of dull, generic information that does nothing to sell us as candidates for our dream jobs. It’s been gratifying to be able to help them grow in their careers as business analysts.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Change impact analysis is easier if you have a road map that shows where each requirement was implemented in the software. > Keep reading… 3) 5 Best Practices for Requirement Analysis by AnalystHub Consider a scenario where a team is developing a new mobile app for online shopping.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When a business analyst or a product owner is eliciting requirements, there is a shift from eliciting stakeholders’ wishes to discovering better and faster ways to solve stakeholders’ problems. Also, we will see where they fit as well as in the three types of requirements: business , stakeholder and solution.

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BA Coach

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world, traditional project management and business analysis methods are often too rigid to keep up with changing requirements. As organizations increasingly adopt Agile methodologies, business analysts (BAs) also adapt their work methods. Let’s dive into the first one, “See the whole”.

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BA Times

MAY 18, 2022

I have been a Business Analyst for more than a decade and have recently decided to go for it! It being the IIBA CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification. As any BA would do, the moment I decided to go for it, I immediately went into information gathering mode! I l researched and gathered as […].

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