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  • Articles
    • Facilitation Top 5
    • Why Good Isn’t Good Enough: The Global State of Business Analysis, Part 2
    • Why Good Isn’t Good Enough: The Global State of Business Analysis, Part 1
    • The Human Aspect: a Business Analyst Question
    • The BA Competency Consultant Role
    • Business Analytics with In-Memory Databases
    • The Business Analyst Commandments
    • Would You Hire a Project Manager or a Business Analyst?
    • Verifying Requirements Documentation
    • 7 Trends in Business Analysis and Project Management to Watch for in 2012
    • Open-Ended Questions
    • The Great Facilitator
    • A Cornered CIO’s Strategy: Protracted Border Wars With The Business
    • Dazzle ’em With Your Documentation Style!
    • Using Business Objectives to Control Scope
    • Questions for Eliciting User Requirements
    • Rhinestones Look the Same as Diamonds...
    • It’s the Goal, Not the Role: The Value of Business Analysis in Scrum
    • The Big BA Picture; A Landscape Without Limits
    • BI - This Is Why
    • Part 2: The Golden Thread - A Requirements Meta-Model
    • User Requirements and Use Cases
    • Can Parallel Thinking and JAD Save the US Congress?
    • The Bad Ass BA: “Business Architect”?
    • Understanding the Whole and Not Just the Parts
    • Does Formal Requirements Documentation Have a Place in Agile?
    • Part 1: The Golden Thread - A Requirements Meta-Model
    • Can Strategy Maps be Used in Business Analysis?
    • Are Business Analysts In Danger of Becoming Extinct? Part 2
    • Eliciting Business Requirements
    • The Perfect Partnership
    • Business Analyst Interview Techniques for Non-BA Recruiters, Managers and Leads
    • Six Common Problems Faced By A Business Analyst
    • An Inquiry, Not an Inquisition
    • Are Business Analysts In Danger of Becoming Extinct? Part 1
    • What’s Done is Done: User Stories
    • Solve it with Science
    • Managing Requirements 101
    • How To Squash The Template Zombie Problem
    • Business Analyst "Real Jobs" -- Define the Problem
    • Do it Yourself Guide for Building Templates
    • Three Baby Steps Toward Agile Requirements Management
    • Managing Your Boss
    • O User, Where Art Thou?
    • Implementing Change
    • 10 Tips to Working Without the Essential Inputs
    • Capturing Implicit Requirements
    • UAT Tips and Templates
    • History Repeats Itself, But It Doesn’t Have To!
    • Business Analyst Says: Let’s Pretend We’re Secret Agents
    • An Accidental Agilist
    • Requirements Are Approved – So What?
    • A Dressing Down for Business Analysts
    • Signs Your Project is Going Off the Rails –Team Member Point of View
    • What Abbot & Costello Can Teach Us About Requirements
    • “Why?” Versus “Why Not?”
    • The Role of the Implementation Consultant – 3 Things You Must Know!
    • Celebritize Yourself
    • Tough Calls from the Corner Office
    • Leaving a Legacy of Lessons Learned
    • Common Mistakes Made By Business Analysts Playing the Role of Facilitator
    • Problem Solvers and Fixing the Corporate Order
    • Preventing a Trip Over the Waterfall When Introducing Agile Methods
    • Running to Meet the Date: How to Effectively Rush a Project
    • 10 Ways Analysts Can Contribute to Mitigating Risk
    • Business Analyst Says: Do Something Worth Remembering
    • So How’s That Working for You?
    • Kindness and Respect Might Be Your Most Valuable Business Analyst Tools
    • Asking the Right Question – “Chicken or Egg” Answered
    • Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron
    • As if Re-work Wasn’t Enough …
    • Technology: Choice or Chosen?
    • How to Impress Executives with Your Presentations
    • It’s Time for Template Zombies to Die
    • The Business Analyst – A Leader Without the Title!
    • How Much Rework Do You Have?
    • Are We There Yet?
    • Top Ten Presentation Tips
    • Overcoming Resistance to Enterprise Architecture
    • Amplifying Collaboration with Guerilla Facilitation
    • How to Become a Hyper-Productive Business Analyst
    • The Bad Ass BA Crampons up the Learning Curve of a New Position
    • Do You Measure Up?
    • Lost in Translation
    • Cohesive Requirements Analysis
    • IT Methodology – Offering Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMB’s) Operational Performance and Impressive Bottom Line
    • The Eight Competencies of Highly Effective IT Business Analysts
    • Business Analysis: Is it a Bottleneck in Your Project?
    • Agile Business Analysis in Flow: The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 2)
    • Rethinking Asking the Stupid Question
    • Requirements Development 101
    • The Bad Ass BA Observes the “Hunt for the Right BA”, Part 2
    • Agile Business Analysis in Flow: The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 1)
    • The Bad Ass BA Observes the Hunt for the Right Business Analyst
    • The Quest for Good Requirements
    • Green Eggs and Ham - a Study in Change Management
    • Champion of Change - The Business Analyst
    • How Do You Get Team Members to Come Prepared to the Meeting?
    • Requirements Management 101
    • How to Handle Tight Deadlines as a Business Analyst
    • The World Has Lost a Good One
    • What Questions Do Your Diagrams Ask?
    • Leading Meetings with Multicultural Audiences
    • The Bad Ass BA Returns in Didactic Pentameter
    • Why is Business Process Design the Future of Business Analysis?
    • Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3…
    • Positive Persuasion: Influence Factors That Create a Win-Win Scenario
    • Terms, Terms, Terms. Clarifying Some Business Analysis and Project Management Terms
    • Seven Ways to Make Yourself Invaluable to Your Company
    • The 1-2-3 of Business Analysis
    • Facilitating a Requirements Validation Meeting with Ease!
    • Business Analyst, Cultural Referee
    • Interrogating the Business Analyst Process to Discover Your own Value
    • How Do You Project Confidence Leading Meetings When You’re Really NOT?
    • Working with Business Analysts Made Easy
    • A Collaborative Stakeholder Analysis
    • Managing Up; Tips and Tricks for the Project-Challenged
    • Why Use a Requirements Matrix? Part 2.
    • Why Use a Requirements Matrix? Part 1.
    • Five Steps to Managing Successful Meetings
    • Is There Life after Business Requirements? Part 2.
    • Leadership Characteristics - A Shift In Requirements?
    • Seven Ways to Dramatically Improve Stakeholder Consultations
    • Is There Life after Requirements? Part 1.
    • Demystifying Use Case Modeling
    • Generic Questions for Interviewing Stakeholders
    • You might be on an Agile/Waterfall Project, if:
    • Seven Success Factors for Requirements Planning
    • Five Steps to a Winning Business Case
    • The Business Analyst Facilitator Role in an Agile Software Development Team
    • Business Analysts; The Unsung Heroes of Successful Projects
    • Stronger Together; Cultivating the Business Analyst and Project Manager Relationship
    • The Emotionally Powerful Business Analyst Team Leader
    • Business Analysis Scenarios; Understanding the Business Interactions
    • Be Promotable; How to Increase the Value of Your Business Analyst Qualifications
    • Unsticking Your Team's Potential
    • Know When to Say When; How Not to Get In Over Your Head With Metrics
    • Why Can't John Write Requirements?
    • Six Steps to a Strategic Situation Analysis with SWOT
    • Career Sabotage; Negative Influence from a Past Employer
    • Managing Risk the Tour de France Way
    • Beyond Use Cases with Storyboarding
    • Managing Business Analysis-as-a-Service (BAaaS)
    • That Business Analyst 'Secret Sauce'
    • Requirements Definition Phase - Are We Done Yet?
    • Breaking Down the Silos for Better Requirements Elicitation
    • The Big Freakin' Requirements Document Must Die. Here's Why.
    • Launching Fledgling Business Analysts
    • Future Leaders Learning Program Puts Business Analysis at Core
    • Building a Business Case as the Foundation for Project Success
    • Can We Please Move On Up the BA Ladder?
    • Can You Hear Me Now? Make Sure Your Communication Isn't Breaking Up
    • The Tyranny of Best Practice and Its Effect on Requirements Elicitation
    • The Importance of Collaboration with Business Experts
    • Disassembling Your Cube
    • Where We Were in 2009 and Where We're Headed in 2010
    • What is the Future for Senior Business Analysts?
    • Requirements Driven Test Management
    • Business Analysts; The CEO's Army
    • BAs Adding Value to Projects
    • Tips for Presenting Requirements and Deliverables
    • The Business Analyst’s Guide to Dealing with Difficult Sponsors
    • How Can BAs Be More Strategic in an Agile Environment?
    • The State of Requirements Management
    • Bad Ass BA; Peer Review. Part 4.
    • Reinventing the Program or Project Portfolio Chart
    • 10 Ways to Explain Things More Effectively
    • Creating Compelling Executive Summaries in Seven Easy Steps
    • Requirements; They Can Make or Break a Project
    • Surefire Ways to Bring Out the Best in Your People
    • Connect the Dots; Five Tips on Requirements Traceability
    • Bad Ass BA; Peer Review. Part 3.
    • Think "I" instead of "We" when Talking about Your Business Analyst Career
    • Gather Trust then Requirements
    • 12 Rules of Delegation for Business Analysts
    • Change Management; What Exactly is Buy-In?
    • Top Ten Reasons You REALLY Do Need a Requirements Document
    • Why on Earth Would You Promote a Business Analyst?
    • Six Mistakes to Avoid when You Start a New Job
    • Bad Ass BA; Peer Review. Part 2.
    • Business Analysis Benchmark - The Path to Success
    • Be Expressive - Improve the Clarity of Your Requirements
    • The Business Analyst's Requirements Meeting from Hell!
    • Building and Managing a Requirements Center of Excellence. Part 2.
    • Requirements Gathering in a Flat World
    • Top Five Reasons BAs Need a Central Hub of Product Intelligence
    • Building and Managing a Requirements Center of Excellence. Part I.
    • Beyond Requirements Analysis - Enterprise Analysis
    • Bad Ass BA; Peer Review. Part 1.
    • Reinventing the Resource Chart
    • Optimized Use Cases
    • Using the Requirements Creation Process to Improve Project Estimates
    • Getting that Non-Contributing Team Member to Shape Up!
    • Capturing Requirements with Use Cases
    • The Business Analysis Center of Excellence; A Vital Strategic Asset
    • Reinventing the Swim Lane Diagram. Part 2.
    • Projects without Borders; Gathering Requirements on a Multi-Cultural Project
    • Bad-Ass BA Lessons. Part 3.
    • Quick Tips to Improve Your Fact Finding Techniques
    • Successful Business Analysts
    • Reinventing the Swim Lane Diagram. Part 1
    • Business Analyst Team Kick-off Practices
    • The Five Commitments of Leadership
    • Gathering Requirements; Go Away Please!
    • Online Business Analyst Assessment
    • Have You Dreamt about Being Your Own Boss?
    • Bad-Ass BA Lessons. Part 2
    • How to Make the Most of Project Process Descriptions
    • Who's on First
    • Business Analysis Benchmark
    • Methods for Eliciting - Not Gathering - Requirements
    • The Three Myths of Virtual Team Leadership
    • The Virtues of Virtualization
    • Bad-Ass BA Lessons. Part 1.
    • Is the Business Analyst's Work Ever Done?
    • The Realities of Surveys in Requirements Gathering
    • Five Ways to Do More with Less - and Be Successful
    • Requirements Definition for Distributed Teams
    • Men and Women and Workplace Communication
    • Preventing Disasters; How to Use Data to Your Advantage
    • Why Visualize Requirements?
    • Bad-Ass BA on Steroids
    • Re-Focusing and Re-Energizing Teams
    • Change Can Be a Good Thing
    • Getting Your Self-Assessment Message to the People at the Top
    • Requirements Definition for Outsourced Teams
    • Building the Business Case
    • The Lost Art of Business Technology
    • Tools of the Trade Part II; Implementing a Requirements Management Tool
    • The Change Management Life Cycle; Involve Your People to Ensure Success
    • Tools of the Trade Part 1; Selecting a Requirements Management Tool
    • Bad-Ass BA Caution!
    • Authoring Requirements in an Agile World
    • Combining Productivity with Creativity
    • Seven Tips to Ensure Requirements Management Success
    • Making Better Business Decisions
    • The Latest Bad-Ass BA Techniques
    • Top Ten Tips for Tackling the CBAP Exam
    • The New Role of the Business Analyst and The Strategic Implications
    • Real Reuse for Requirements
    • Business Process; A Thing of Beauty
    • The Art (or not) of Blamestorming
    • When Needs Become Conflict
    • Enterprise View of the Business Analyst Role
    • Harness the Power of the PM/BA Partnership
    • More Bad-Ass BA Techniques
    • Seven Tips for Managing Your Online Reputation
    • Implementing Metrics for IT Service Management
    • Why Agile?
    • More Business Analysis Trends to Look for in 2009
    • The Importance of Requirements Traceability
    • Ten Bad-Ass BA Techniques
    • Tackling Updates to Legacy Applications
    • Can I have My Requirements and Test Them Too?
    • Trends in Business Analysis and Project Management to watch for in 2009
    • The Business Context Model; As Good as it Gets
    • The Uncertainties of Integration Projects
    • Embrace Change, But Make Sure It's for the Better
    • Facilitating Discovery Meetings; Be Prepared
    • Six Attributes of Leadership
    • The Importance of Business Domain Modelling
    • How to Complete a Software Development Project on Time, on Budget
    • Designing Great Leadership Development Workshops
    • Nearly Painless UML
    • Defining Requirements within a Short Time Frame
    • Business Analyst Development in the Insurance Industry
    • I Don't Have Time to Manage Requirements; My Project is Late Already! Part IV
    • In this Edition: Managing Requirements, Getting Motivated, IIBA News and New Blogs
    • Creating Motivation through Discovery
    • I Don’t Have Time to Manage Requirements; My Project is Late Already! Part III
    • In this Edition: Implementing BA, Managing Requirements, Service Management
    • Implementing Business Analysis; Three Distinct Phases
    • I Don’t Have Time to Manage Requirements; My Project is Late Already! Part II
    • I Don’t Have Time to Manage Requirements; My Project is Late Already!
    • Documents; The Neglected Side of Business Information Automation
    • A New Series about Requirements Management and Much More
    • Where will BA and PM Professionals Come from? Next Steps
    • Getting Back to Basics - Fifth Fundamental-Choosing the Best Modeling Technique for Success
    • Two Popular Series of Articles Wrap-up in this Issue
    • When Does The Business Analyst's Involvement In A Project End?
    • A Second Look under the Hood of the BA/PM Position Family
    • When is the BA's Work Finally Finished?
    • More BA Basics and BA/PM Debate
    • What are Gen X and Y BAs Looking for in Their Careers?
    • Getting Back to Basics: Fourth Fundamental - Choosing Elicitation Techniques
    • A First Look under the Hood of the BA/PM Position Family
    • Group Dynamics and Requirements Elicitation
    • Group and Other Dynamics
    • A First Pass at Defining the BA/PM Position Family
    • An Examination of BA and PM Skills Profiles
    • Getting Back To Basics: Third Fundamental - Identifying Your Sources
    • Two Popular and Sometimes Controversial Series Continue
    • Effective Requirements Gathering and Management Need the Skills of Both the BA and the PM
    • ITSM Work Sessions: Lessons Learned
    • The Debate Over Blending the Roles of the BA and the PM
    • Staying Power
    • Ten Tips for Writing Effective E-mail Messages
    • Getting Back To Basics
    • Is it Time for the BA and the PM to Get Hitched?
    • Back to Basics and a Look to the Future
    • Do Some E-Mails Make You LOL :>)?
    • The Perils of Poorly Written E-Mail
    • Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
    • Getting Back To Basics
    • Let the Celebration Begin!
    • Why I Love Being the Vendor
    • An Eye for Value: What the Business Analyst Brings to the Agile Team
    • Alignment, Requirements, CBAP and MORE!!
    • Never Let a Good Editor Go
    • CBAP Certification: From What is It? to I Did It!
    • Being Strategic Will Define You
    • The Strategic Role of the Business Analyst
    • Struggling to Define Business Analysis and the Role of the BA.
    • More News and Views for Over 5,000 Business Analysts!
    • The Impact of Business Requirements on the Success of Technology Projects
    • Road to the Perfect Project – Part 3
    • Leaping Ahead in the New Year
    • Road to the Perfect Project - Part 2
    • Writing Effective Project Requirements
    • Could that Be Spring Around the Corner?
    • If Agile Were to Go Mainstream
    • Road to the Perfect Project
    • Putting Our Best Foot Forward in 2008
    • Defining Value to Prioritize Features
    • What a wonderful year 2007 has been!
    • The Thin Line Between SME and PM
    • Still Growing Like Mad!
    • The Case for Establishing an Internal Business Analysis Certification
    • Five Tips for Infusing Business Analysis Into Projects
    • How to Become a Business Analysis Hero
    • Using JAD for an Iterative Approach to Requirements Management
    • Managing Change: The Leadership Challenge
    • “Oh No, You Gave Me What I Asked For!”
    • What is a BA?
    • Dividing Requirements into Iterations for a Staged Delivery
    • “Oh No, You Gave Me What I Asked For!”
    • Business Process Modelling or “Life without Use Cases”
    • Business Analysis…It Just Keeps Growing!
    • 6 Month Anniversary = More Great Things For BA Times!
    • Workflow Modeling with UML Activity Diagrams
    • “Oh No, You Gave Me What I Asked For!”
    • SOA – Laser Surgery for the Business Analyst?
    • August 2007: Continued Enhancements Being Made!
    • Create Successful Projects: Use Verification and Validation Plans
    • From Storytelling to Asset Creation: What Requirements Development Should Be
    • Opportunity vs. Threat…and the Winner is?
    • Testing Essentials in Business Analysis: An Overview
    • The Project Manager and Business Analyst Relationship
    • Putting the User Back into User Acceptance Testing
    • July 2007 Edition: Social Networking Introduced!
    • June 2007 Edition: Growing By The Day!
    • The Business Analyst as Strategist
    • May 2007 Edition: Getting Better All the Time!
    • The Top Nine Requirements Misconceptions: Why Aren’t YOU Doing Requirements Right?
    • The Coming of Age of the Business Analyst
    • Play Ball! Lessons in Teamwork for the Business Analyst
    • How to Become (or Manage) a Successful Business Analyst
    • Reducing the Trend of Failed Business
    • Welcome to the Official Launch of Business Analyst Times!
    • Building a BA Centre of Excellence.
    • Increased Demand for Business Analysis Training
  • Blogs
    • Adam Kahn
      • Be Careful What You Post – Networking Gone Bad!
      • Bad Business Analysts – It’s Management’s Fault
      • Appreciation Goes a Loooooonnnnnnnggggg Way!
      • Are Business Analysts Difficult to Deal With?
      • I got an App for that!
      • Work + Holidays = ?
      • BA Burn-Out
      • Putting Professional Responsibilities in Perspective
      • Social Networking. What is the Value?
      • Ethics 101
      • Bloody Monday in the US Last Week - Who's Next?
      • Bad Economy = Our Time to Shine
      • Labor Day Is Here!
      • The Need for Speed
      • Is It Possible to Truly Shut Down?
    • Elizabeth Larson
      • Three Tips for Solving the Communications Dilemma
      • Mystery Fiction - The Business Analyst as Detective
      • Bad Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Relationships
      • Kicking the Hornet's Nest
      • Is Your Organization Agile-Ready? Part 2
      • Is Your Organization Agile-Ready? Part 1.
      • Be Satisfied with what I Give You-It’s Better than what You Asked for
      • Five Rules for Project Success
      • Is the Business Analyst a Product Owner or Tester on Agile Projects?
      • Scrum vs. Waterfall Round 2; The Fight Continues
      • A Heavyweight Fight; Scrum vs. Waterfall
      • Who Should Define the Business Need?
      • Is There a Personality Profile for the Project Manager and Business Analyst?
      • The BA and PM Role; a Deeper Dive
      • Should Business Analysts Model Requirements?
      • Influencing the Project Manager
      • Can a Person Function as both BA and PM on the Same Project?
      • Slaying the Dragon: Oldies but Goodies in an Agile World
      • Cultural Intelligence - Do You Have It?
      • Tips and Tricks for Facilitating Conflict Resolution
      • A Requirement by Any Other Name
      • Estimating the Business Analysis Phase of a Project. Is it Even Possible?
      • Avoiding Conflict between the PM and BA. Part 2.
      • Avoiding Conflict between the PM and BA. Part 1
    • Kupe Kupersmith
      • The One Question to Ask a Business Analyst Candidate
      • Why Bother with a Business Analysis Center of Excellence
      • Why Business Analysis Processes are a Waste of Time
      • The Business Analyst’s Citizen’s Arrest
      • Stop the Multitasking
      • Enough Business Analysis Already
      • Be a Good Team Player
      • Do You Get the Attention You Deserve?
      • Agile is a Fad
      • Say Goodbye to Your Ego
      • Unleash the Business Analysis Profiler in You
      • Don’t Bother Building Consensus
      • Be an IT Star: Practice Business Analysis Skills
      • It’s Time to Take the “Naked” Approach to Business Analysis
      • The Decline of a Business Analyst’s SMEness
      • Does Your Language Make People Nervous?
      • No One Wants to Work With a Jerk
      • The Business Analysts Role in Transition
      • How a Business Analyst Should Prioritize Knowledge Transfer
      • Gain Credibility by Being Prepared
      • It's the Communication Stupid
      • 4 Steps to Improve the Relationship with Your Project Manager
      • Is Your Business Analysis Process Like Buying a Car?
      • My First Agile Project
      • Business Analysts Need to Learn from Developers
      • Business Analysis Love Fest at BBC
      • Don’t be a Business Analyst Bully!
      • How a Business Analyst Becomes an Advocate
      • Business Analysis May Be the Problem
      • Out of the Box Business Analyst Career Path
      • Your Customers Don't Want to Work with You!
      • Book Review for All Business Analysts
      • Becoming a Senior Business Analyst
      • Four Ways to Best Utilize a Senior Business Analyst
      • The Six Key Characteristics of a Senior Business Analyst
      • Fire, Sliced Bread, and Now This!
      • We Don't Need BAs!
      • Things We Can Learn from the Italian Stallion. Part 2.
      • Things We Can Learn from the Italian Stallion. Part 1.
      • Start Your Own Business Analyst Tradition
      • Build Trust; High Five Your Teammate
      • Be a Leader; Focus on Change
      • You Need Desire to Be a Desired BA
      • Will the Real BA Foundational Skills Please Stand-up
      • Get Your Head Out of the Weeds!
      • Treat Your Career Like Weight Watchers
      • Small Projects Drive Me Crazy!
      • The Sadness of the Silo'd BA
      • Going Rogue: A Business Analyst Life
      • Business Analysts Need to be Project Managers
      • What?! You Don't Want to Be a Project Manager?
      • Mr. Business Analyst, You're Not a Good Fit!
      • The Three Most Important BA Factors
      • Business Analysts are Set-up to Fail
      • Improv Comedian Turns Business Analyst
      • Pro Sports and Business Analysis Come Together
      • You Won't Die ... I Promise!
      • Eight Steps to Improvement
      • Find Time to Build Relationships
      • Show Your Value: Get Paid on Commission
      • Be the Go-to Person!
    • Keith Ellis
      • What is Requirements Maturity?
      • Swamped in Detail
      • Nomination for the Most Misused Word in IT Projects
      • The Fine Art of Complaining
      • The Pendulum Swing of Organizations
      • Get Your Priorities in Order
      • A Refreshing Viewpoint from a New Business Analyst Professional
      • Analysis versus Needs Analysis
      • The Technology of Business Analysts
      • Managing Metrics; Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
      • What Every Executive Needs to Know About Hiring Business Analysts
      • Energizing Flailing Projects
      • Four Trips to Midnight
      • The Future of the Business Analyst
      • Maturity is More than Looking for Grey Hair and Wrinkles
      • It Ain't Easy Being Agile
      • Requirements ATTACK!
      • FAT REQUIREMENTS; How to Lose Weight and Enjoy the Sunshine
      • Requirements; How Do I Know When I'm Done?
      • 10 Ways to Use Requirements to Melt an Executive's Brain
    • Marcos Ferrer
      • BLOG of a Different Color - Solution Assessment and Validation
      • A Blog of a Different Color – Management
      • A Blog of a Different Color – Requirements Analysis
      • A Blog of a Different Color - Elicitation
      • A Blog of a Different Color - BAPM
      • A Blog of a Different Color – Enterprise Analysis
      • A Blog of a Different Color
      • EA EA OH!
      • What Did the Senior Know?
      • Soft Skills Sustain Success
      • Ace the Facilitation. Face Your Fame!
      • A Meditation on Root Cause Analysis (and Contest!)
      • The BA and the PM
      • The Business Case for Business Analysis
      • The Earth may be Flat, But at least the Project is Round
      • The Outstanding Business Analysis Moment in America Goes to OBAMA!
      • Free, Easy and Powerful Tool - the CBAP 007 Scope-O-Matic!
      • A BA’s View of the Root Causes of U.S. Health Care Conflict
      • Secret Public BA Shames. Part 3.
      • Secret Public BA Shames. Part 2.
      • Secret Public BA Shames
      • No Where to Hide, Suckas!
      • BA Opportunities in the New Economy
      • Announcing the Outstanding B.A. Moment in America Award
      • BA & QA
      • B.A. Survival Guide. Part 3
      • B.A. Survival Guide Part 2
      • BA Survival Guide. Part 1
      • B.A.gile!
      • The BAs are Coming! The BAs are Coming!
      • Stories from the Front!
      • Stories from the Front!
      • Will the First CBAPs Be a Credit to the Profession? Well Will You?
      • Will PMI Agree that BA Must Precede Projects?
      • First Critical Issue - NOT!
      • Five Critical Issues that will Define the BA Profession in the Next 10 Years
      • BA Rising
      • BA Rising
    • Robert Galen
      • Agile Genesis Questions— Why? and What’s the Value?
      • BA’s of the World…What is your Worth?
      • STOP the Software Requirement Insanity
      • Grooming your Agile Backlogs for Success
      • Faultless Facilitation – Leveraging De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
      • Kupe – Agile is NOT a Fad!
      • Faultless Facilitation – The Art of Team-Based Decisions
      • Product Backlogs: Boulders, Rocks, and Pebbles…Oh My!
      • The Agile Business Analyst: Seeing the Forest, The Trees, and the Grass…Mostly the Grass!
      • It Isn't "Safe" Being an Agile Business Analyst
      • Where Do User Stories Come From? Part 2
      • Where do User Stories Come From? Part 1.
      • Read My Lips: Requirements Provide NO Value!
      • Shhhhh. Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet!
      • I'm Tired of Business Analysts Being Left Out of Agility!
      • Attacking Technical Requirements in Agile Backlogs
      • Embracing Agility - Your Best Bet for Business Analysis Skill Development!
      • "Show Me the Money" - Value-Driven Requirements!
      • I See What You Mean... Leveraging Transparency!
      • Agile's "People over Process"... What's the Point?
      • Agile BAs... Don't Go in without TOOLS!
      • What do BAs "Do" within Agile Teams?
      • User Stories - Large Misconceptions. Part 2.
      • User Stories - Large Misconceptions. Part 1.
      • Less than 10% Information Density!
      • Intentionally Incomplete
    • Fergal McGovern
      • Can Plain Language Save Cost? – You Better Believe It!
      • What is Document Content Analysis? How it differs from Document Management. (Part 2)
      • What is Document Content Analysis? How it differs from Document Management. (Part 1)
      • Square Pegs, Round Holes – Why Non-Funcs Are Really Not Stories
      • Iteration Zero in Agile – Initial Requirement Analysis in Disguise
      • Moving to Agile Documentation – Why ‘Pair Inspections’ Make Sense
      • The Move to Agile – The Impact on Business Analysts
    • Greta Blash
      • Scrum Product Ownership: Balancing Value from the Inside Out
      • Have a Nice Conflict
      • Evaluating the Requirements Meeting
      • Why Process Models but not Data Models?
      • And the Oscar Goes To…
      • Bad Business Analysts or Bad Assignments?
      • Editors Blog - Bad Business Analysts
      • The Facilitator’s Voice
      • Ups and Downs of a Business Analyst / Project Manager's Journey
    • Steve Blais
      • The Lexicon of Solutions
      • Stop Gathering Requirements
      • The Business Internist
    • Kathleen Hass
      • It’s a New World for the BA: We Need to Grow up Fast!
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