Communication Breakdown Communication breakdowns are the worst kinds of problems for business analysts. As a business analysts, your job centers on effective communication. However, how many times is ...
A Wiki Is More Than Just A Dictionary One of the great tools that came out of the agile software development movement of the 1990s was the wiki. There's no need to go into a long explanation of what a...
What's a Business Analyst To Do? What happened to the role of the business analyst on agile software projects? Extreme Programming, a pioneering agile methodology, talks a lot about the interactions ...
Active Listening You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. My advice to most people–regardless of profession–is to listen more than you speak. For a business analyst however, the art of listening ...
Heavy Lifting Most of time, the workload on business analyst is pretty reasonable; however, sometimes a massive amount of requirements must be gathered in a short amount of time. I've helped many comp...
When Push Comes to Shove Gathering requirements seems like a straightforward process, but sometimes it's hard to figure out the relative importance of the requirements. If you're running an agile proj...
