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- 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 Dont 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 Dont Have Time to Manage Requirements; My Project is Late Already! Part II
- I Dont 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 Arent 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
- Elizabeth Larson
- 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
- Jonathan Kupersmith
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Terry Longo
- ITIL for BAs - Part XI; BAs and ITIL Service Transition Processes
- ITIL for BAs - Part X; BAs and ITIL Service Transition (continued)
- ITIL for BAs - Part IX; BAs and ITIL Service Transition
- ITIL for BAs - Part VIII; What is Design?
- ITIL for BAs - Part VII; What Makes a Service Valuable?
- ITIL for BAs. Part VI; "Non-functional Requirements"
- ITIL for BAs. Part V; Service Level Management
- ITIL for BAs. Part IV; The Service Catalog
- ITIL for BAs. Part III
- ITIL for BAs. Part II
- ITIL for BAs. Part I
- ITIL v3 and Service Management
- Jonathan Malkin
- James Rivera
- John Simpson
- Webinars-Training
- WhitePapers
- Business Analyst White Papers
- Build your bottom line: Drive innovation with a collaborative requirements-driven quality solution
- The automation evolution. An analysis of the evolution of automation in software quality management
- Requirements Driven Development Virtual Software Factory
- Planting the Seeds to Grow a Mature Business Analysis Practice Authored by Kathleen B. (Kitty) Hass
- Customer perspectives on the benefits of a collaborative process to deliver software quality (Hurwitz and Associates)
- Getting Requirements Right : Avoiding the top ten traps
- Getting your requirements right: Collaborate With Stakeholders to Work Smarter
- Using Business Process Mapping as a Communication Facilitator in the Global Enterprise
- Business Analyst White Papers
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- Launch of Two New IIBA Webinar Series
- Now Available! IIBA Business Analysis Competency Model
- The New IIBA Global Membership Program
- Use Case Question and Answer Webinar
- Don’t Miss It!
- New! Meet the CEO Monthly Webinar Series
- Introducing the New IIBA Business Analysis Competency Model
- New Zealand Chapter Releases Business Analysis Study
- Personalized Services for IIBA Chapter Community
- Introducing IIBA Corporate Membership
- New CEO Blog - "From the Virtual Desk of Kathleen"
- Improved Career Center Features
- First CEO for International Institute of Business Analysis
- IIBA Community Network Launches
- Important CBAP® Exam and Handbook News
- Coming Soon! IIBA® Community Network
- IIBA 6th Annual General Meeting – June 23, 2009
- BABOK® Guide v2.0 Print Version Now Available
- Coming out ahead after the Recession is over - Join us for a Discussion
- IIBA at ProjectWorld and Business Analyst World
- Introducing the New Media Group
- IIBA Releases BABOK® Guide 2.0
- How easy is it to start the BA Certification Process?
- BABOK® Version 2.0 Release Party
- BABOK® 2.0 Release Date; March 31, 2009
- International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Launches Online Career Center
- Online CBAP Application; Faster, Easier, More Convenient!
- BABOK® 2.0 Update
- The Value of the Business Analyst
- Coming Soon! Online CBAP Application and New Career Center
- Career Strategies for Tough Times
- CBAP Certification Program Update
- Updates on the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
- International Institute of Business Analysis Marks Fifth Anniversary
- Project Managers vs. Business Analysts; Allies or Antagonists?
- Letter from the President September 2008
- IIBA Launches Computer-Based Testing of the CBAP® Exam
- The Value of CBAP Certification
- IIBA monthly Webinars start August 26, 2008
- IIBA Launches Worldwide Computer-based CBAP Exam
- IIBA Annual General Meeting Report
- Letter from the President of IIBA - June 2008
- Letter from the IIBA President - March 2008
- Goals for 2008: The Year of Growth
- Letter from the President
- What is a BA?
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