Tag: business analysis
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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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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…
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10 Top Tips for a Perfect Business Requirements Document
Many large organisations will have a standard template for a Business Requirements Document but just because the format has been around for a long time doesn’t mean it is perfect. And for those of you who work in small companies – maybe embarking on a first major project – here are my top tips…
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Change Request or Missing Requirement?
Every project that I have ever been involved in has had many, many discussions and meetings about changes. Any project manager with plenty of experience will know that change management is an important part of any project, irrespective of whether you are using PMP, PRINCE2, APM PMQ or any other project management methodology. Changes will…
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Top tips for successfully tackling a major project
Space. In a nutshell, that’s what it boils down to. When somebody asks me how I manage to get things done when I have a busy family life, a full-time job and a myriad of other tasks that are vying for my time and attention… There is only one way to answer. Space. It is…
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Mitigating misunderstanding in a project environment
Have you ever played Chinese Whispers? Dubious name aside, it is a fun and entertaining game that just about anyone can play. One person has a phrase to begin with, and they whisper it as quietly as possible to another in the group. This person then does the same with what they think has just…
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How to fix a failing project
Your project is circling the drain. You know it, your team members know it, even the guy that delivers the sandwiches knows it. Somehow though, your management haven’t gotten wind of it yet. Let’s try and keep it that way, at least until you have fixed the problem. Get back to the basics Let’s start…
