Sam Cordes, Author at The Business Analyst's Toolkit

6 Awesome Resources to Start or Improve Your Business Analysis Career (All Completely Free!)

Here you’ll find 6 highly recommended resources to increase your effectiveness as Business Analyst by Bridging the Gap. Bridging the Gap provide online training and certification to business analysts with free resources to help anyone looking to start or improve their business analysis career. One of the best ways that they serve business analysts is by providing quality resources that you can depend on.

Maximising Efficiency and Quality: The Benefits of Business Analysis Templates

by Sam Cordes

Business analysis templates can help you work more efficiently and effectively, while ensuring that you work is consistent, high-quality, and meets established standards. They used to organise work, document findings, and present analysis to stakeholders.

Unlocking Success: Overcoming Challenges Faced by Business Analysts and Strategies for Dealing With Them

by Sam Cordes

Business analysts face several challenges in their roles, such as managing stakeholders, dealing with incomplete or inconsistent data, and adapting to changing business needs. However, there are several opportunities to improve in these areas.

The Responsibilities of a Product Owner in Scrum

by Sam Cordes

Product Owners play integral part within Scrum product development teams. They strive to deliver high value and high quality products to the business often and on time. Quite often Business Analysts either step into to the role of a Product Owner to fill the gap on a Agile Scrum project, or they transition their careers to a full-time Product Owner. If you are currently a Product Owner or thinking of becoming one, then this post can help you.

3 Best Toolkits to Master Business Analysis Deliverables

by Sam Cordes

As a Business Analyst, it is important to understand the different deliverables that are used when defining and designing a technological solution for your business. These deliverables are critical outputs of our work, so an understanding of them will help ensure successful outcomes. Here you’ll find 3 highly recommended template toolkits to increase your effectiveness as Business Analyst on Waterfall or Agile projects.

4 Best Books to Master Agile Business Analysis

by Sam Cordes

Business Analysts play an important role in Agile teams as they provide essential support for project success. They are responsible for analysing user needs, defining requirements, creating prototypes, testing functionality and providing feedback throughout the development process. Here are 4 must-read books that will give you a strong foundation to master Agile Business Analysis.

Business Analysis Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

by Sam Cordes

This glossary includes key terms, definitions and concepts related to business analysis, and is an invaluable resource for professionals in this field. It serves as a common language between practitioners from different countries, domains and organisations who may use slightly different words or phrases for the same concept.

The Difference Between the Agile Product Owner and Product Manager

by Sam Cordes

As organisations increasingly rely on technology to drive their business objectives, the importance of product management has grown exponentially. Product Owners and Managers are critical roles in any organisation looking to successfully develop new products or services. Learn the difference between these two essential roles.

Maximising Your Potential as a Business Analyst: The Importance of Performance Metrics

by Sam Cordes

A way to assess the business analysis work is important to make future improvements to the process where required. This post describes the important metrics and KPIs to consider when planning and measuring your business analysis effort.

5 Best Books to Master Non-Functional Requirements

by Sam Cordes

Business Analysts often struggle in formulating NFRs and requirements specifications can contain quite lengthy functional requirements but the NFRs section is lacking in detail or is non-existent altogether. Here are 5 highly recommended books that will help you improve your requirements discovery skills and master non-functional requirements.

The Non-Functional Requirements Checklist

by Sam Cordes

Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) capture conditions that do not directly relate to the behaviour or functionality of the solution, but rather describe environmental conditions under which the solution must remain effective or qualities that the system must have.