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What is the Future for Senior Business Analysts?

What is the Future for Senior Business Analysts?

Now that you are recognized as a senior business analyst, what can you look forward to in your professional fu...

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Where We Were in 2009 and Where We're Headed in 2010

Co-authored by Richard Larson

At the close of 2008 we made seven predictions about business analysis and project management trends for 2009. How did we do? This article looks back at our predictions for 2009 and forward to new ones for 2010.

Get Your Head Out of the Weeds!

In our profession there is often talk about business analysts needing to get out of the detail and take a look at the bigger picture to make sure your efforts are still heading towards the goal of the project and the company goals. I refer to the syndrome of never getting out of the details as being "in the weeds." In theory, looking at the big picture every now and then makes ...

Tips for Presenting Requirements and Deliverables

In the past, my presentation of business level requirements has involved walking the business through the 80 pages of UML use cases and watching them glaze over after 10 minutes. I wanted them to understand what they were signing off on but this was not the right way to present the material to my audience. I was finishing up a project recently and was asked to present our teams...

Should Business Analysts Model Requirements?

During a recent client visit I encouraged the use of modeling as a way to uncover hidden requirements and expectations. One of my clients expressed her rather strong opinion that modeling requirements was not and should not be a part of business analysis work. Oh, she could accept the fact that uncovering gaps between the "as-is" and "to-be" using process models made some sense...

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