Analysts Corner

APRIL 8, 2025

In this article, Ill share how BAs contribute to smarter feature prioritisation in IT projects, blending personal experiences with practical tips for working with key stakeholders, balancing business value against technical realities, and keeping projects focused on what trulymatters. If everything is a priority, nothingis.

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A view from business analysis reference guides It’s not new that a good application of business analysis practices (traditional or agile) helps Product Owners improve their day-to-day work. This article explores practices proposed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) that make Product Owners excel in their work.

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Agile Connection

JANUARY 10, 2023

Agile data modeling involves a collaborative, iterative, and incremental approach to data modeling. In this article, we discuss how MySQL Document Store could be used for agile data modeling.

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InfoQ Articles

JUNE 16, 2021

This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. By Prashant Hegde.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This article presents how discovery techniques, popular within product management, fit in business analysis areas of elicitation , analysis and validation. For delivery, agile development methods contributed to frequent releases to the market. There is no doubt about it that these documents are outputs of analysis work.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It is a hassle process that requires copying, scanning, printing, or faxing the documents through poorly configured software. Sometimes, the business may need to print various special documents of different formats and sizes regularly. Become More Agile. Sometimes, these activities are frustrating. Improved Cashflow.

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BA Times

JANUARY 18, 2023

Documentation is the most important aspect for any BA. The documentation is useful to depict the requirements and the detailed discussion about new features and change request if any. There are many different types of documents that a BA prepares.

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Managed Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I recently wrote an article on “ Reinventing Project Management ” which advocates developing a more integrated Agile Project Management approach that embraces both Agile and traditional plan-driven project management in the right proportions to fit any given project. What’s the Impact on Project Managers?

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BA Coach

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This final article in our series on Agile Business Analysis principles explores the principle Avoid Waste. Over the course of this series, we’ve examined principles that help business analysts (BAs) align Agile mindset and practices with delivering value, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous improvement.

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Business Analyst Learnings

JULY 18, 2019

I tend to describe the agile approach as a way of working; A targeted way of working that allows us to make changes, respond to customers’ needs and manage uncertainty with minimal delays, and without needing to wade through “red tape”. This is the first of a series of articles on this subject.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Nimble vs Agile: why is a unique term not enough? I recently came across an article (1) with a concept I didn’t know about yet: NIMBLE : an organization’s ability to navigate unpredictable business environments and operationalize innovation through a scalable ability to understand and respond to change with precision and speed.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 24, 2023

A typical BA workflow for an agile project When I was trained in Business Analysis, I always tried to join the pieces I had learnt. Hence, this article will walk you through a typical workflow for a BA in an Agile/Scrum project. But I got the fundamental idea when I actually experienced it in my job role.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2018

For small companies, Agile Transformation can be straightforward—since getting alignment can be accomplished by getting everyone in a room and creating shared understanding. “Agile Transformation is the work of refactoring the organzation so that it can actually do Agile.” ” In this Article.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Another year has started with a lot of great articles in our Analyst’s corner. Requirements elicitation : we will learn how the use cases are still relevant in the age of agile, the importance of requirements traceability, and best practices in requirements analysis. This article explores some positive aspects of this scenario.

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BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Agility for any organization is the ability to stay alert and be prepared to act on any decision almost instantly. Agile software development is a collaborative process between and within project teams with an ingrained set of values and principles for software development. Read more about Lean Software Development here.

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BizAcuity

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agility for any organization is the ability to stay alert and be prepared to act on any decision almost instantly. Agile software development is a collaborative process between and within project teams with an ingrained set of values and principles for software development. Read more about Lean Software Development here.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Last year, Harvard Business Review published a great article on the ways that AI are changing contract management. Documentation. Instead of manual filing , contract management automation can scan in documents and store cloud-accessible data about them, which can be retrieved into simple graphs and charts.

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Vitality Chicago

MAY 31, 2022

I was recently asked to be an Expert Agile Witness in a legal battle centering around agile ways of working. The case revolved around the agile contracting approach used for an application development project. Does agile ways of working guarantee a final working solution? Key Takeaways – Agile Contracts: 1.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 16, 2023

Time management simplified Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash So far For those of you who have read my articles here so far, I have written on a broad range of business analysis techniques. Life is agile, uncertainty and change are constant. For ensuring progress, I always find daily check-ins (agile) very helpful.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The development of these advancements led to a rise in educating and training translators in machine translation post-editing, which we will discuss later in the article. The documents are edited at a minimal level. Hopefully, the tips and advice provided in this article will be helpful when you get started in localizing your software.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Like a long and winding mountain road, the journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. In this series of articles , we want to share that map: a clear description of what you should expect to see across all five phases of Agile maturity. Phase One – The Agile Team. Agile Training.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Welcome to the Business Analysis Digest #37, with the best business analysis and related topics articles of August 2023. Business Analysis Articles 15 Tips for Outsourced Software Development Success by Karl Wiegers Image by wirestock on Freepik I would love to start August’s digest with another great article by Karl Wiegers.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Integrated Knowledge Bases — AI Midjourney generated image In this second article in the series, I will explore a possible path for AI advancement that must have a profound impact on our society: access to integrated knowledge bases. My goal is to envision the next stages of evolution to guide research and development investments.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In this article, we are going to look at how software development can leverage on Big Data. Each one of us contributes towards the generation of data in the form of images, videos, text messages, documents, emails and so much. Agile Development. As such, agility is one of the requirements of a modern-day developer.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”. For example, I am writing this article using Microsoft Word. When I need to take a break from writing, I save the document. Word is the product. Pl atform Owner. SAFe Product Owner.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Adopt an agile approach to managing your analytics environment. Adopt agile implementation practices. Adopt agile practices for proactive planning and monitoring; a “set it and forget it” implementation creates the risk of inadequate resources that fail to support enthusiastic data users with their growing data workloads. .

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Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

When we say done, we mean done-done, nothing else left to do, includes testing, documentation, verification, security, performance, everything. We will talk about Health Metrics for Agile Teams in a different article. As a continuous learner, Satyajit has certifications in Scrum Mastery, Agile Coaching, and Project Management.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Leading for success across three areas will empower your entire employee base to be more data-driven: Adopt an agile approach to managing your analytics environment. Adopt agile implementation practices. Support employees in growing their analytics skills. Foster community that builds and celebrates your Data Culture.

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Business Bullet

JUNE 14, 2020

Business Requirements Document Checklist. This article focusses on a checklist that can be applied to check the quality of requirements that have been written. It will help the author of a requirements document to be able to self-assess their work to aid the quality of the deliverable. Checks of the Document Structure.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Not maintaining requirements in an Agile team can lead to several challenges, including scope creep, missed deadlines, low-quality deliverables, and dissatisfied stakeholders. That’s why maintaining requirements is critical to the success of any Agile project. That’s where agile teams come in.

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Analysts Corner

JULY 7, 2023

Over the years, he honed his skills, delved into the nuances of the discipline, and shared his insights through numerous articles, books, and presentations. The interview also delved into the relationship between requirements and agile methodologies, which have gained considerable popularity in recent years.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this article, I delve into the most frequent challenges an IT business analyst faces in custom software development. Agile development methodologies can address evolving requirements and foster flexibility. Document everything using tools like user stories, use-case diagrams, and Business Requirement Documents (BRD).

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Reflecting on the previous year, I’ve noticed a few strong trends in our articles. In this issue of Analyst’s corner digest we’ve got the articles about: Requirements elicitation: building partnerships and committing to good requirements, asking the right questions and an intriguing: Why do we ask the most important question — “Why?”

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Vitality Chicago

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I taught an Agile Training course recently and felt I did a pretty good job. Here are my key takeaways: People want agile training that is customized and specific to them. People Want Customized Agile Training. That is because of the nature of Agile. Agile itself is open. There are thousands of books on agile.

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Insight Software

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our Platform gives our partners and customers a level of accessibility and agility that no other software vendor can. AI Doc Assist acts as an intelligent assistant, allowing users to type their questions into a chat box and get immediate answers based on relevant user documentation, knowledge base articles, and more.

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