How to Develop Your Business Analysis Toolkit
How would you like a toolkit of guidelines and templates at your finger tips and ready to apply in your next business analysis effort?
Sam Cordes
The Requirements Discovery Checklist Pack
Discover requirements with ease with over 700 elicitation questions at your fingertips. Effective stakeholder engagement and elicitation is the business analyst’s bread and butter. It’s so important that Laura Brandenburg (CBAP) came up with over … Read more
5 Popular Requirements Prioritisation Techniques
When prioritising requirements it’s important to ensure stakeholder involvement in the process. Typically, requirements are elicited through workshops, documented sources, and existing systems and processes.
3 Articles on Requirements Prioritisation to Improve Your Technique
Three articles on requirements prioritisation including why and how requirements should be prioritised and where the issues occur.
Business Analysis e-Book – How to Start a Business Analysis Project
In this business analysis e-book I will give you an overview of a structured approach to commencing and planning a business analysis effort.
Agile and Waterfall Software Development Methodologies
The type of methodology to be used can also be determined according to what is best for the organisation.
Business Analysis Problem Solving Techniques
Problem solving is a major discipline within business analysis. Here are 3 business analysis techniques that will help you discover and analyse a given problem.
Must-Read Business Analysis Blogs and Websites
In alphabetical order, I’ve listed my recommended business analysis blogs and websites that will help keep up to date with recent developments in business analysis and business analysis related disciplines.
3 Articles Describing Common Problems Faced by Business Analysts
Learn more about the challenges faced by business analysts and business analyst managers.
How to Identify the Likely Causes of a Problem – A Fishbone Analysis Example
Whenever there’s a problem to explore, which is most often during the initiation of a project, it’s useful to have a visual means of your analysis. Like mind mapping, the fishbone analysis method is a business analysis technique that enables you to explore the likely causes of a problem. The fishbone method can be used in brainstorming sessions or as a personal thinking tool.
How to Use Mind Mapping for Problem Solving
The mind map is a visual representation of ideas, thoughts, problems… anything. It’s a great brainstorming tool for generating new ideas and exploring a problem. In this post I examine how a mind map can be used to explore a problem against six strategic categories.