Business Analysis
Business Analysis
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Business AnalysisITIL® Foundation Question of the Week: IT Continuity Plan
Preparing for ITIL® Foundation certification? Let's flex those mental muscles with a quick quiz to help you get ready for exam day.
By Michael Caruso -
Business AnalysisHow Well Are You Using Your Project Managers and Business Analysts?
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...
By Dan Stober -
Business Analysis3 Steps for Implementing Business Analysis
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...
By Guest Authors -
Business AnalysisKey Considerations When Transitioning to Cloud
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...
By Mike Lewis -
Business AnalysisThink Not Machines Systems Thinkers
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...
By Perry McLeod -
Business AnalysisQ&A: The Impact of IIBA’s New BABOK Guide and PMI’s New Business Analysis for Practitioners Guide
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...
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Business AnalysisSo You Need Business Analysis Training
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...
By Perry McLeod -
Business AnalysisThe Difference Between Fights and Arguments
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...
By Perry McLeod -
Business AnalysisTechnology Professionals: Get Your BA Hat On!
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...
By Dan Stober -
Business AnalysisAn End to Business Analysts Everywhere
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...
By Perry McLeod