Implementing business analysis (BA) in organizations needs to be done in a well-planned process. The three steps are contingent on the BA maturity of the organization, its vision for how BA will be used and...
Your application developers have been saying they can increase performance by moving your application to the cloud. Your boss is saying, “We should be doing some of this cloud thing I keep hearing about.” Your...
In my last blog, I wrote that business analysts are really business-systems analysts — where business and systems are joined to make one word. Business systems are interdependent and interrelated organic and/or mechanical entities, which...
The release of both the IIBA’s A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge Guide v3 and the Project Management Institute's Business Analysis for Practitioners has given business analysts a lot of information to...
How well does your organization leverage institutional business analysis (BA) and project management (PM) experience within IT projects? From an enterprise perspective, most organizations recognize that there is a disconnect between knowledge of processes and...
Successful business-systems analysts usually have a combination of education and experience in the field of business analysis. It is common that a newbie business analyst finds that he or she is unskilled at dealing with...
Fights and arguments — two words that are used synonymously but could not be further apart. We all know that a fight is a disagreement based not on rational thought but rather on an emotional...
As a working IT professional one of the biggest challenges that you face, more than likely, is helping those on the business side understand exactly what your current IT capabilities are. Sometimes you may find...
We tend to think of the terms “business analyst” and “business systems analyst” as different — yet similar — job titles, the former less technical than the later. Let us stop and think about that...