Business Analysis Knowledge Share

MARCH 9, 2023

Product management, product ownership, and business analysis are all crucial roles within an organization that work towards a common goal: delivering valuable products and services to customers. While there are similarities between these roles, they each have distinct responsibilities and skill sets.

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Bridging the Gap

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The product manager role and business analyst role go hand in hand. Many product managers get their start as business analysts, and as a product manager, you can expect to work closely with a business analyst. Product Manager Role. Business Analyst Role.

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BA Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Reflecting on my journey from a Junior Business Analyst to a seasoned Business Analyst and eventually evolving into a role where Business Analysis and Product Management intersect, I’ve had the privilege to contribute to organizations as diverse as Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and EPAM, alongside navigating the unique challenges of smaller entities.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Drawing diagrams of business problems and software systems is a powerful aid to requirements development. Continue reading on Analyst’s corner »

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These twenty requirements practices can make the difference between happy success and painful struggling. Continue reading on Analyst’s corner »

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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.

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Business Bullet

MAY 13, 2023

Business analysis is a dynamic field that offers a diverse range of career pathways. With cross-transferable skills in analysis, business, and communication, business analysts are well-positioned for future career progression. Here is a link to the product page to find out more details Thoughts?

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In this interview, David provides some eye-opening thoughts in emotional intelligence and its role in Business Analysis. David Mantica is the VP and General Manager for SoftEd US. David resides in Raleigh-Durham, NC, where he provides consulting to business owners.

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Business Bullet

MAY 13, 2023

Building a successful business analysis practice requires careful planning, strong leadership, and a commitment to quality. One of the first steps in building a successful business analysis practice is to develop a training strategy.

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Bridging the Gap

APRIL 6, 2023

In this interview, you’ll discover how: Nina made the transition from Product Manager to Business Analyst. Product Owner Role After I was in that role for about a month, I would say, we had one of those reorganizations and I actually just got moved over into a product owner role.

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Business Analysts

AUGUST 16, 2022

by Business Analysis, Benefiting from business analysis is about much more than hiring an individual with the title business analyst. Business Analysis is a means in which outcomes are derived, strategy is linked to execution and ideas are realised through to revenue. So, what do we all do about this?

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

MARCH 4, 2022

Before we delve into understanding the importance of roadmaps in Business Analysis , let’s understand what a roadmap is. A roadmap is a strategic plan or a GPS for the business that defines a goal or desired outcome and includes the major steps or milestones needed to reach it. What is a Roadmap? But this is not the case.

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Business Analysts

AUGUST 4, 2021

by Business Analysis, One billion dollars wasted, 100 million over budget, a 40-million-dollar initiative costing $250 million dollars! Recent announcements in the press regarding significant initiatives, projects & product overspend and minimal value, are testament to this. What is Business Analysis as a Service?

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Capiro

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Business Analysis. Business analysis concerns the identification and definition of those vital changes, large and small, that all organisations must constantly make in order to: adapt. Roles and Qualifications in Business Analysis. Business Analyst' is a role that performs business analysis.

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Passionate BA

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Business analysts as thought leaders Hello there! The last time we saw each other, I posted about business analysis resources everybody should follow in 2024. Or BA Digest by Blackmetric Business Solutions? Realizing this, I checked how many articles are there about top business analysts you should follow.

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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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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

If you are working on products, you have realized product management handles requirements in a different way. 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.

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Business Borderlines

JULY 2, 2021

Business Borderlines sponsored its first business analysis awareness event on 31st of January 2016. Change is the only constant in business. Success is greatly reliant on the business ability to accept and manage change; agility. Angie Eissa is the Founder and Managing Director of Business Borderlines.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This time, we’ve got a collection of stories about business analysis, data, agile, and product and project management. Essential practices for business analysis success are surely a must read from the list — based on many years of practical experience. A nice way to finish a busy month.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We will delve into the importance of requirements elicitation, its key principles, and how it contributes to delivering successful products. > 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.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The output of feature prioritization is a prioritized list of features that can be used to guide the development of the product. Product managers, market researchers, and stakeholders are responsible for feature prioritization.

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Analysts Corner

AUGUST 8, 2023

We’ve got some insights on using SWOT and identifying business rules, a guide to assess your enterprise architecture practice maturity, an interview with Karl Wiegers as recorded by Fabricio Laguna; and a few career stories: how do you start a new project as a BA? Can a BA transition to Product Management? Enjoy reading.

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

MAY 12, 2023

Christina is an accomplished transformation consultant specializing in business analysis , business process management, product management, and project management. The post Episode 25: What does it take to become a Business Analyst? In this episode, we talk to Christina Tan.

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Simplilearn

JULY 16, 2021

An Agile team has three main roles - development team, testing team, and product manager. In this typical team, the product owner is the ultimate decision-maker for the project. However, in order to be fully effective, the product owner needs to be well versed in many core business analysis techniques, which they rarely are.

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Check out this article on Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Analysis. Unlocking Secrets in Product Management, Product Ownership and Business Analysis Is the Business Analyst Involved Only During the Complete Project Lifecycle?

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Analysts Corner

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Succeed As A Business Analyst— Key Skills, Roles, and Responsibilities Business Analysis (Image created in Adobe Spark/Adobe Express) Business Analyst—An Introduction The U.S. According to Salary.com, the average salary of a business analyst is $77,009. The business analyst is a change agent.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The year started strong with a few things happening in the world of business analysis and IT — and we were lucky to have a few very interesting submissions in our corner. A lot of articles on business analysis career development, BA tools & techniques, Agile, AI and Enterprise Architecture this time. And “Hurrah!”

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

In summary, while MVP is related to the development and release of a product, prototypes and proof of concepts, on the other hand, are more focused on testing and validating ideas and technologies before committing to full development. A well-known way to explore ideas in an early phase of design is by conducting Design Sprints.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 28, 2023

When I first got into business analysis, it was pretty daunting, but like everything out there, it got better with practice. It’s for product managers, user researchers, design thinkers, and everyone who facilitates as a part of their job. This write up isn’t just for BA’s though.

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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

JANUARY 19, 2023

We covered questions around: What and how would you recommend a Business Analyst start a project? With such a diverse background in different domains, how have you transcended your business analysis/ product management experience across industries? How would you define a project versus a product?

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BA Times

MAY 24, 2023

As teams shift towards a product management approach, there is often a parallel shift towards experimentation and hypothesis-based product or service development. Increasingly, teams are working to deliver change in an incremental and iterative way.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By overlap, I mean the areas where both the BA and the PM have to get their hands dirty, such as when preparing business analysis work, going through the RFP process, establishing business needs and scope, etc. Under each sub-team, we have a product manager, business analyst and scrum master.

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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. This is the first time I am venturing into a new topic altogether: time management. Just again combined with Notepad.

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Bridging the Gap

MARCH 5, 2024

On every successful project, you’ll find a business analyst. There are many variations of the business analyst role, and the business analyst job title is used inconsistently. Whether your team is leveraging agile software development practices or more traditional ones, effective business analysis is essential to success.

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Bridging the Gap

MARCH 9, 2023

This tool will help clarify your level of awareness and experience of key business analysis techniques and processes to make more informed decisions about training and career opportunities. Today, I am discussing business analyst job titles. First, let’s just define what we mean by “business analyst.”

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The BAWorld

MARCH 14, 2024

It fosters seamless collaboration between product managers, developers, and designers. Bonus: For hands-on practice, Techcanvass offers a Business Analysis Case Study: Creating Prototypes course. The post Powerful Prototyping Tools for Business Analysts appeared first on Business Analysis Blog.

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 1, 2023

Now let’s tie this discussion to business analysis work; MVP in particular. It is the version of the product that contains minimum essential features that can be launched for early customer feedback. It comes in many shades. Let’s look at its key offerings.

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