This talk starts with the idea of the agile world. That is, the world we live in is constantly evolving and changing, presenting both problems and opportunities. The agile project …
Putting Process at the Centre of Business Management
Enabling the increasingly impossible demand to do even more with even less. We traditionally manage organisations via the template laid out by the organisation chart. Yet not one of the entities …
A Business Analyst’s Approach to Lean Strategy Execution
Business stakeholders want projects to deliver fast. They often come to the project team with a clear view of the solution, expecting a quick start and not leaving much room …
How to kickoff your team project: what research says
How to kickoff your team project: what research says In this post, I’ll explore some of what the research says about creating great teams, and what you should include in …
What’s in a Name?
In my previous article for IRM Connects I detailed my opinions on what the future may hold for the Business Analyst profession and this issue continues to occupy my idle …
What does “Value” mean to a Business Analyst?
As a Business Analyst I can contribute analytical and systems thinking So that the eventual solution provides business value by exactly matching the real needs of the business. This Business …
Business Analysts in Distributed Outsourced Projects
by Thomas Behrens, Thomas.Behrens@endava.com Introduction The number of outsourced distributed software development projects increases continuously. During the set-up of these projects, we tend to focus on the developers and testers, less …
Evolution of Business Analysis – The Next Step Forward?
by David Beckham, Senior Business Analyst, Aviva, david.beckham@aviva.com I recently attended the European Business Analysis Conference in London where a lot of the debate centred around the future of the Business …
Why user research is vital to the success of your digital transformation
by Kyle MacDonald-Wallis, User researcher, IPL, K.Macdonald-Wallis@ipl.com Design something that helps people and they’ll use it. In turn, your organisation will be able to increase revenue, cut costs, operate more efficiently …
Defining Business Analysis for Big Data
In the beginning of the Information Era, there was business analysis for application development. Waterfall methods, Rapid Application Development, Agile methods,.. all were based on delivering a functioning piece of …
Learning Organisations
If your organisation were a child, what would they like? Go ahead, take a few minutes to write down your thoughts. What did you write? Maybe you said it’s like …
Rationale for Rationale
This is the eleventh in a series that explains the thinking behind the Volere ( the Italian verb – to wish or to want ) requirements techniques — previous and …
Insight to Innovation: A User-Centred Approach to Consistently Creating Breakthrough Ideas
People do surprising things. That is the first thing you come to realise when you start designing with users in mind. What each of us takes for granted is that …
Decomposing User Stories
Among the most important questions for a BA when eliciting requirements are, “how do I know when I have finished?” Or, in other words, “at what stage can I tell …
Why I think we should value play
View PostThe Requirements Food Chain
This is the tenth in a series that explains the thinking behind the Volere requirements techniques. Previous and future articles explore the application of these techniques in your environment. This article illustrates how the …