Category: Business Analysis
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Why Business Analysts Should Be Creative
As a business analyst solving problems within your company or business is what you do on a regular basis but ploughing the same furrow year after year can put your organisation at a disadvantage when new, flexible businesses are coming along all the time with new ideas. So in order to continue to produce the…
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The Core Skills of a Business Analyst in Today’s World
It has only been recently that business analysis has become officially recognised as an independent profession. Since 2013, the number of job openings in this field has been increasing along with demand for qualified professionals who can plan and implement the most effective strategies for business growth. If you are planning a career in this…
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The Definitive Guide to Understanding Business Analysis
CONTENTS Project Scope and Its Importance Business Requirements Analysis and Why It’s Important Gathering Requirements Brainstorming Storyboarding Interviews Prototypes Interpreting the Requirements Documenting the Detailed Requirements Agreement and Sign Off The Perfect Business Requirements Document Scope Creep Document Iterations Key Document Elements Check out our advice and tips on all things…
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Business Analysts: More Important Than Ever or a Dying Breed?
The role of the business analyst can often be a hard sell to organisations, particularly smaller organisations that have yet to develop a more mature approach to projects. Business analysts can be seen as just another level of bureaucracy, adding little value but additional cost. However, in organisations with a well-honed project management structure BAs…
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The Importance of Soft Skills for Business Analysts
We often discuss the many and varied skills of a business analyst and the importance they play in successful project delivery, especially where that project is long, complex and technical in nature. However, to be a successful business analyst you need more than just technical skills, experience, competence or in-depth business knowledge. To excel in…
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What Does a Business Analyst Bring to a Project?
There may be projects that can struggle on without a Business Analyst but if you work on large, complex engineering or construction projects you need detailed business requirements to deliver what is needed. And to deliver detailed requirements you need a Business Analyst. But a BA does more than just ensure there are detailed requirements…
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5 Things Every Business Analyst Should Know
Techniques for Gathering Requirements There are a variety of techniques that can be used successfully to gather business requirements and which one(s) you use will depend on the type of projects and the types of people involved in the project. The most common are brainstorming, story-boarding/story-telling, interviewing and prototyping. Brainstorming tends to be used…
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What’s the Point of Business Analysis?
With so many proponents of an agile approach to project management where projects are started with a rough idea of the requirements and then the objectives are refined as the project progresses in short bursts, you could be forgiven for thinking that detailed business analysis and the preparation of detailed requirements was a thing of…
