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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With so many methodologies and technologies, developing competency in the Problem Solving Framework will help you stay relevant as a Business Analyst.

To succeed in your interviews and employment conversations, it is important you thoroughly understand the functions, expectations and qualities of a business analyst.

Great business analysis is more about mindset, and less about skills. It is about ‘how’ you go about doing things that makes the real difference in this profession.

This primer gives you an overview of the 4 major certification bodies in the world, and a breakdown of some certifications that you may want to consider as part of your career roadmap.

One of the more important things that a BA must do is communicate clearly and meaningfully so that they deliver real results for their organisation.

Business analysts engage with stakeholders to build relationships, foster ownership, influence outcomes, gather information and facilitate the resolution of problems.

One of the first problems a business analyst needs to solve when starting a new project is how to elicit to the requirements.

The business analysis process can be viewed as an exercise in solving a series of problems to produce beneficial outcomes for an organisation.