September 22, 2009 – 8:02 pm –
Most of us out there today are up against tight deadlines. I usually sit in my office on Friday singing the line from a Beatles song…”8 days a week.” I wish I had 8 days some weeks. Yes, it can be frustrating trying to fit it all in. We have to be thinking of better ways to approach [...]
August 31, 2009 – 7:26 am –
Is your organization having a difficult time describing the value of business analysis to the bottom line?
To make your case stronger you will want to read the new white paper we have available for download. The paper is co-authored by Barbara Carkenord and Kimberly Terribile and discusses how skilled business analysts are instrumental in providing a [...]
August 4, 2009 – 6:58 pm –
©2009 David Ewing and World of Stock.
I had a discussion recently with a client about how the role of a BA in many organizations was traditionally thought of as a scribe in meetings. Thankfully with all the recent focus on business analysis as a discipline, the many different skills provided by a business analyst are [...]
July 28, 2009 – 10:27 am –
Eliciting business requirements is a critical skill for a business analyst. Although we hear the phrase business requirements over and over again by software vendors, by training companies, by business analysts of various industries, and by speakers in our IIBA chapter meetings – is everyone defining the term in the same way? I would like to [...]
July 20, 2009 – 9:08 am –
We all know that the way to become a more proficient business analyst is to practice. But practicing is not the complete answer. I can go to the driving range and hit three buckets of golf balls – practicing - but if my coach is not there to tell me to tilt my shoulder further [...]
July 14, 2009 – 9:45 pm –
Hot off the Presses from the IIBA® is the new Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®) Handbook with some helpful information if you are considering IIBA® certification. The Handbook includes a good overview of the IIBA, the certification requirements, exam preparation recommendations, as well as the Knowledge Area percentages used for the new v2.0 of the [...]
June 26, 2009 – 1:50 pm –
Over the past few years I have been advocating that business analysis is a distinct profession, separate from project management, separate from development, separate from quality assurance. I believe that eliciting, and analyzing requirements; and making sure they are used to create a good quality solution is a full time job. I also believe that if [...]
June 9, 2009 – 11:40 am –
In an informal survey with our customers we recently found that many business analysts are often working on requirements to enhance COTS applications. ERP and CRM processes have been commoditized for a number of years and have been implemented in many diverse organizations with interesting results. Examples of some well-known COTS packages are SAP, PeopleSoft, [...]
May 13, 2009 – 7:59 am –
When writing the title of this post I started to sing “How low can you go…How low can you go?” I told you that so I am not the only one with that song stuck in my head.
On to the blog post. Yesterday, I had a meeting with the technical lead for the project [...]
April 27, 2009 – 7:46 am –
When I first started attending concerts lighters were all the rage. The lights went down and on certain songs everyone would bust out their Bic lighter to illuminated the room to set a mood. Well, for a number of reasons lighters are not in everyone’s pocket at concerts these days. Do you think that stopped concert [...]
