Posts Tagged ‘ba’

Business analysis documents: Business Process Design, System-Wide Requirements, Solution Glossary

This is the final article in the series on the structure of business analysis documents.

If you are interested in a diagram that brings together everything we talked about in this series, you can find it in our guide to business analysis, BA Kickstart, or in the BA Illustrated poster …

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Business analysis documents: Business Requirements and Use Cases

This is part 3 of a series of posts on business analysis documents (check out part 1 and part 2 if you haven’t seen them). If you find this post or the series useful, please let your colleagues know!Business RequirementsThe document focuses on providing details about …

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Business analysis documents: Project Vision and Solution Vision

Project visionThe Project Vision is a document which is shared by a project manager and business analyst. They work together to outline the problem statement, determine the desired state, describe the criteria of business acceptance of the deliverables and how project success will be measured. The document …

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Business analysis documents: Current State Analysis

This article is the first in a series describing business analysis artifacts, their purpose and internal structure

I’ll talk about these documents:

Current state analysis documentProject vision documentSolution vision documentBusiness requirements documentBusiness process design documentUse case model documentUse case specification documentSystem-wide requirements documentSolution glossary

Once …

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Handling tight project deadlines as a business analyst

I‘ve talked about ways of managing your work when you’re faced with a tight deadline. This time I’d like to discuss ways of managing the deadline itself.You can end up with a tight deadline for a variety of reasons. The deadline may be mandated by the management. It …

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Free change management poster – updated

Our change management poster proved to be the most popular to date, with over 2000 downloads and over 150 people saying thanks or suggesting improvements on LinkedIn and forums. Thanks again to everyone for the feedback!The suggestions we received were really good and we decided it would be good …

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Identity management poster

First of all, I’d like to say we’re really grateful for all the feedback on our previous posters. Lots of people are still saying thank you for our change management poster published over two months ago, which is amazing!One of our readers asked us whether we have a …

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Master data management and ERP systems

There seems to be quite a bit of hype around Master Data Management. I even saw an article recently that talked about an “AI technology” which ensures data integrity and enhances search effectiveness. Nevermind that artificial intelligence doesn’t exist anywhere, let alone in business software. Of course, vendors have a vested interest in making it …

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Change management poster

There is an updated version of the change management poster here. Did you know the posters from Business Analysis Illustrated are now available to purchase …

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Enterprise architecture poster

I‘ve recently had a knowledge sharing session with new graduates, and one of the questions from the session took me some time to answer properly. The question was about enterprise architecture and how BAs should approach it in their …

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