Tips for BAs: Learning Facilitation
Author: Geri Schneider Winters Meeting facilitation involves a number of skills, because your job is to guide the participants in addressing the topic of the meeting. If they need to make decisions,...
View ArticleTips for BAs: Use Your Common Sense
Author: Geri Schneider Winters In the context of the BA role, I see so much published on the internet that is just nonsense. How can you know who to believe and what to trust? You have to trust in your...
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Example Use Cases
A lot of people are looking for example use cases. So I thought I’d make a short post telling a variety of places I offer example use cases that I have written. If you sign up for my free tip of the...
View ArticleBecoming a Business Analyst
Author: Geri Schneider Winters Many people contact me because they want to be a Business Analyst. They are often in another job currently and want to change roles. They want to know “What do I need to...
View ArticleWyyzzk now IIBA EEP
I can now offer you classes with certification credits! Fundamentals of Business Analysis earns you 30 PD credits for initial certification or 30 CDU credits for re-certification. The next public class...
View ArticleManaging Up
I was pleased when Geri asked me to write a guest post about managing up. I think it is an important skill that everyone should cultivate, regardless of job level or industry. The following post skims...
View ArticleTips for BA’s: Thinking about your Career
In the early part of each year, I often get a flurry of people writing to me to ask for career advice. I get questions such as: Is Business Analyst a good career? Which job is better, XXX or Business...
View ArticleNew BA Video Tips
http://www.youtube.com/user/Wyyzzk I have set up a video channel for Business Analyst tips on YouTube. There are 15 videos there at present including: 5 steps to better use cases – parts 1 and 2...
View ArticleDo you know your BA type?
We all know that different BA’s approach doing things in different ways. Some like to watch first before trying something, others are great at making plans, someone else is best at mitigating risk,...
View ArticleHave You Done it Yet?
http://www.writingusecases.com is where BA’s have been going to find out what type of BA they are, and the best way for them to approach the BA job. Over 200 people have taken the ReStart Profiler Quiz...
View ArticleWhy is Software so Awful to Use? A Case Study and Call to Action.
Why are apps, websites, software, and other products still not very nice to use? We’ve spent more than a decade as an industry focusing on user experience, and yet I consistently find myself frustrated...
View ArticleAdding Observation to you Business Analysis toolkit
That is the title of my featured article on Modern Analyst. Go check it out! http://www.modernanalyst.com/Home.aspx
View ArticleWriting the Project Purpose
Have you been on a project where people just argue all the time about the features or the scope? Or a couple of the developers come up with software that contradict each other? Or no one seems to know...
View ArticleWhy Business Analysts should write User Stories for Agile teams
I have seen so many Agile teams struggle with requirements. They do not want big documents, they think they do not need a Business Analyst. In fact, they think they will just grab the Project Sponsor...
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Using Kanban to Organize Your Work
A lot of our Business Analysis work is very much the same from one project to another. Because we do the same tasks over and over, it can be useful to organize the work on a Kanban board. A Kanban...
View ArticleProduct Owner Role – What Scrum Leaves Out
The Product Owner role in Scrum is a well-defined description of how a single person who represents the business interacts with a Scrum team to get software or products implemented that the business...
View ArticleBecoming a Business Analyst
Author: Geri Schneider Winters Many people contact me because they want to be a Business Analyst. They are often in another job currently and want to change roles. They want to know “What do I need to...
View ArticleManaging Up
I was pleased when Geri asked me to write a guest post about managing up. I think it is an important skill that everyone should cultivate, regardless of job level or industry. The following post skims...
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