Archives: asking questions

When do you learn the business?

One of the fundamental tasks of business analysis is to learn the business. Business models and business requirements are developed by spending time with business experts, observing, asking questions, diagramming and confirming process flows, discovering business rules and data. I am interested in starting a discussion about when the BA performs these tasks. I was recently [...]

News from BA World Denver

The first day of the BA World conference in Denver was a great success. Lots of interesting discussions about current business analysis topics with many different perspectives. Dave Bieg, from the IIBA  provided the keynote address on Building a Mature Business Analysis Practice. He outlined the IIBA’s plans to help corporations and government agencies continue [...]