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Tips for BAs: The Starter Project Business Analyst
Author: Geri Schneider Winters You may have just finished college, or have none of the skills needed for a more advanced BA role. You are interested in a Starter Project BA position either to learn more about the job to … Continue reading
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Tips for BAs: The Importance of the Job Description
Author: Geri Schneider Winters You have been thinking of becoming a Business Analyst, and are not sure how to go about it. Since few people leave college and start working as a Business Analyst, you are probably making a career … Continue reading
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Tips for BAs: Intro to Finding a BA position
Author: Geri Schneider Winters I get a lot of emails and blog posts from people who want to be Business Analysts, but are not sure how to go about finding a BA position. This article is the first in a … Continue reading
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Tips for BA’s: Using Teleseminars to Communicate with Distributed Teams
Author: Geri Schneider Winters As a Business Analyst, we are often in the role of facilitating discussions among stakeholders. There is also a need to give presentations. You may find a need to teach something to the stakeholders, for example, … Continue reading
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Tips for Business Analysts: Starting, mid-range, and Senior Business Analysts
Author: Geri Schneider Winters I have been thinking a lot recently about what I would expect if I were hiring a Business Analyst. My expectations are very different if the person is a starting Business Analyst, or someone with a … Continue reading
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Tips for Business Analysts: Who Runs a Software Project?
Author: Geri Schneider Winters I work on a lot of really large software projects. Over the years, it has become clear to me that three roles, and the interactions between people in those roles, are really vital for the success … Continue reading
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Tips for Business Analysts: Information – Kind of vs Form of
Author: Geri Schneider Winters When working on a project, you want to consider what kind of information you have, and what form is the best for documenting that information. These are two different things. A use case is a form … Continue reading
Tips for Business Analysts: What is Analysis?
Author: Geri Schneider Winters As Business Analysts, our job goes far beyond being a note-taker, in other words listening to people talk, writing down what they say and calling it requirements. Notice that the term Business Analyst implies that we … Continue reading
Tips for Business Analysts: Using Personas
Author: Geri Schneider Winters Have you noticed the examples of requirements elicitation on my blog? In one case, I had a bit of a contest, using a game to elicit information. You can see this technique by looking in the … Continue reading
Tips for Business Analysts: Use Cases Are Not the Only Requirements
Author: Geri Schneider Winters With all the focus on Use Cases, it can be easy to forget that they are not the only kind of requirements. Use Cases are very good for some kinds of requirements, but really bad for … Continue reading
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