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

AUGUST 1, 2023

The business analysis digest #36 is here! Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #36, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of July 2023. Upcoming business analysis events 17.08, 8 PM CEST. Starting Over – To Business Analysis and Beyond. Hello there!

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 27, 2023

During the BA & Beyond 2023 conference in Leuven, Belgium, I was able to lead a Fishbowl-style session on High-Impact Business Analysis. link] What is a High-Impact Business Analysis? Measuring the impact of business analysis is essential to assess the value it delivers to stakeholders in a specific context.

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The Analyst Agency

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We’re living in a data-driven world where we’re presented with endless options. As a business strategist, it’s essential that you leverage these opportunities to your benefit to be able to make the most out of the market trends and stay ahead of the curve. Not just as consumers but as businesspersons as well.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 12, 2023

However, just as not every phrase looking like haiku is a poetry, not every requirement is useful when presented as a user story. A user story is the analyst’s presentation of a requirement to the team from the stakeholder’s point of view. Why: value to the actor. Like any representation, it comes with some pros and cons.

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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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BA Times

MARCH 9, 2023

Business analysis is an evolving profession characterized by change. However, not all businesses embrace evolution and change in the same way. This can result in business and delivery practices constraining the use of newer, more agile approaches to business analysis.

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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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MindsMapped

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Rise of the Business Analysis Profession and the Emergence of Global Standards. he past decade saw an explosion in demand for Business Analysts, where data-focused companies were still relatively new, analytics were not as commonly used and technology were not advancing at such an exponential rate as it currently is.

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Analysts Corner

JULY 3, 2023

Plan your business analysis approach During the plan business analysis approach activity, you will list the activities to perform. Get more information about the business domain, the clients, the end users, and the competition. Get an overview of how information is presented, transmitted, and used.

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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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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 3, 2023

New articles 1) Business analysis tips for effective Product ownership by Nuno Santos It’s not new that a good application of business analysis practices helps Product Owners improve their day-to-day work. It’s been a while and is about time for us to resume the regular digest of stories published in our corner.

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Analysts Corner

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Competitive market conditions present the business analysis industry with a rare opportunity to pivot and redefine its role. Photo by Michael on Unsplash Don’t be ashamed if your business analysis career is not living up to its promise. All of them declined.

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BA Times

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Building or presenting a solution demands knowing the requirements. Understanding requirements and passing them on to the […] The post Top 10 Tips For Requirements Gathering appeared first on Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs. When the requirements are NOT clear, a project will not be successful.

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Modern Analyst

JANUARY 15, 2023

Data is crucial in making sound business decisions, and business owners can acquire this much-needed data through business analysis. Source: StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay Why is creativity important for business analysts? Is this method helpful in business analysis?

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

by Attila Evanics As an IT Business Analyst, you have to listen, monitor, observe, understand, analyze, present and learn. If you want to be a top-tier IT business analyst (but it is the same for EVERY career path around the world) , you have to learn constantly, and still, sometimes that is not enough to succeed. >

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BA Times

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sharing our analysis outputs (whether this is documents, models, presentation slides or feature tickets) with other business analysts before they are shared with […] The post What’s The Point of Peer Review? appeared first on Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs. What Is Peer Review?

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 18, 2023

.” – George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize-winning playwright Communication is one of the most important skills for a business analyst to possess, as it allows them to effectively convey their ideas and recommendations to a wide range of stakeholders. This means that the receiver is fully present and paying attention to the message being conveyed.

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Welcome to our Business Analysis tutorials for beginners. You can learn the basics of Business Analysis, business analyst role and responsibilities, skills and many other business analysis activities. The videos in this training series are as shown below: Tutorial 1: What is Business Analysis?

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IRM Connects

MAY 19, 2020

The post Presenting Over The Web appeared first on IRM Connects, by IRM UK | IT Blog. It is a feature of our new reality that we are increasingly communicating through disembodied means (I’m talking web rather than Ouija board here) and this can cause problems for.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

According to the IIBA’s Business Analysis Book of Knowledge, 3rd edition , the requirements workshop is a focused event attended by key stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs) for a concentrated period of time. If they are not available for the whole period, have them be present in key moments of the workshop.

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The BAWorld

MARCH 1, 2021

International Institute of Business Analysis(IIBA) has introduced 3 horizons for Agile Business Analysis to make it more structured. It suggests that if the analysis is done at different horizons namely Strategy, Initiative and Delivery the organization will get the maximum value.

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BA Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

You might already know the technical skills you’ll need to be a great Business Analyst (BA) but do you know the essential soft skills? You’ll often be coordinating with stakeholders, running workshops, or presenting documentation to teams. The role of a BA is deeply rooted in working with people.

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IRM Connects

AUGUST 26, 2020

The recent ‘Online Presentation Skills’ webinar presented by David Beckham was so well attended that it resulted in some unanswered questions due to time constraints. The post Questions from ‘The Online Presentation Skills’ Webinar. Here David gives his answers. appeared first on IRM Connects, by IRM UK | IT Blog.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s why we presented 6 mind-blowing facts you didn’t know about AI. These have a very widespread application in trading, business analysis, and planning, error forecasting, etc. There are tons of devices that use artificial intelligence because there are tons of artificial intelligence companies that deal in many spheres.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 29, 2024

A recent post by Laura Brandenburg, ACBA, CBAP mentions that “What makes you a Business Analyst is fulfilling the responsibilities of a business analyst and excelling in the skill set of a business analyst”. The Scrum Guide doesn’t define BA as an obligatory role for a Scrum team, but Business Analysis is certainly needed.

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BA Times

JUNE 14, 2023

Business Analysts and Testers are the two cornerstones of software projects delivery. The BAs define the business needs, they validate solution options, and they remain present throughout the project delivery to ensure the project’s objectives are met.

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Business Analysts

APRIL 3, 2024

by Business Analysis, As a business analyst, effective communication is key to building strong relationships, establishing trust, and fostering stakeholder collaboration. These cues are often present in nonverbal messages and can help us gain a general understanding of the speaker’s message.

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MindsMapped

JULY 22, 2020

They are frequently involved as observers and the amount of interaction is restricted to internal stakeholders and there are occasions presenting them with direct end-user feedback, beta tests, usability tests and demos. Below are some questions to consider this role specialization.

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Modern Analyst

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

As a business analyst you will have to decide how will present the information in a document in order to maximize value for he readers. Every party that has access to documentation must find easily what is looking for and after reading it to gain specific knowledge and understanding of a specific issue.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 16, 2023

Time management simplified Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash So far For those of you who have read my articles here so far, I have written on a broad range of business analysis techniques. For long term goals, use vision documents, a simple bulleted presentation, or visual representations such as a roadmap or a mind-map.

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BA Times

JUNE 1, 2022

You might already know the technical skills you’ll need to be a great Business Analyst (BA) but do you know the essential soft skills? You’ll often be coordinating with stakeholders, running workshops, or presenting documentation to teams. The role of a BA is deeply rooted in working with people. To be a successful BA you’ll […].

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Business Analysts

JANUARY 17, 2024

by Business Analysis, The Art of Knowing Your Audience In the dynamic realm of business analysis, effective communication stands as the cornerstone of success. Carkenord’s book, “Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis,” Chapter 2 dives deep into the importance of knowing your audience.

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Business Analysts

JANUARY 17, 2024

by Business Analysis, The Art of Knowing Your Audience In the dynamic realm of business analysis, effective communication stands as the cornerstone of success. Carkenord’s book, “Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis,” Chapter 2 dives deep into the importance of knowing your audience.

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Watermark Learning

JUNE 9, 2021

In our previous blogs, we covered what Agile business analysis is and how business analysts add value in an Agile environment. In this final blog, we talk about how to leverage Business Analysis skills in each of the five Scrum Events. We covered the business analysis activities in detail in the previous blog.

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Modern Analyst

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The philosophy that a specific sequential approach does not fit in all circumstances is clear across all the knowledge areas and techniques presented. A business analyst has to critically filter and pick up the most useful techniques and approaches given the specific circumstances.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2024

IIBA defines nimble as: “the ability of an organization to navigate unpredictable business environments and operationalize innovation through a scalable capability to sense and respond to change with precision and speed.” For this, we can refer to other articles from business Analysis to have this linkage. Nimble practices 3.

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