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When do you learn the business?

April 6, 2010 – 2:03 pm – 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 [...]

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Why do we need detailed business requirements?

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 [...]

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