Business Analyst Learnings

AUGUST 16, 2020

From running physical workshops with a room filled with eager participants to managing virtual workshops where participants are in different geographical locations with some participants perhaps preferring to hide behind their screens. Set expectations and ground rules around how the workshop session will flow.

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Juice Analytics

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The goal of this workshop is to enable you to bring data to life and use it to communicate a story to an audience, with a focus on simplicity and ease of interpretation. Workshops are designed for anyone who needs to communicate more effectively with data.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Collaboration is at the heart of successful project management, especially when it comes to eliciting well-defined requirements. Continue reading on Analyst’s corner »

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Clarasys

JANUARY 14, 2021

So what have we discovered through carrying out these workshops? Join Alex, Hannah and Sarah in our latest podcast as they discuss their experiences of facilitating the CX workshops and share with you some of the learnings, tips and tricks behind CX success! The post Podcast: CX workshops appeared first on Clarasys.

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Agile Business Consortium

MARCH 9, 2021

If you would like to learn how cognitive diversity can be visualised and leveraged to better enable growth, transformation, and organisational agility, we have partnered with Proffesor Scott Hutcheson, and Strategic Doing Institute to offer a cognitive diversity workshop. How does it work? How do I register? For non-member, the price is £149.

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Business Bullet

MARCH 7, 2021

I am going to share some of the tools and techniques I have used for running workshops and meetings virtually. If like me you have been working from home for the last 12 months you may have found there are challenges to running workshops as it can seem more difficult than if everyone is in a room together.

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Netmind

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A while back I facilitated an inception workshop for what will be our client’s first agile project… I want to share my experience. The first step was to conduct an efficient workshop to agree in more detail on how the team would collaborate (sprints, roles, etc.) Inception Workshop Part 1: Vision and Roles. — Miquel.

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Domo

MARCH 22, 2021

Enter Domopalooza 2021 , which takes place March 24 and will offer no shortage of workshops designed to help you get your arms around the beauty and benefits of the quintessential Modern BI platform: The Domo Business Cloud. To see which workshops are most relevant to you, explore the agenda.

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Cprime

JANUARY 19, 2021

Now, let’s take a look at what happens in a SAFe Inspect & Adapt (I&A) Workshop and how it influences the next PI planning session. What is the SAFe Inspect & Adapt Workshop? The Inspect & Adapt Workshop is essentially the release train equivalent of the team’s Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

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EBG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I have found one of the best ways to create a healthy product community is with facilitated workshops. These workshops are usually driven by product management requiring buy-in of multiple work products including: Clearly defined product vision, goals, strategy, and quantifiable customer outcomes. What Are Workshops?

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Business Analyst Mentor

AUGUST 2, 2023

It doesn’t take much experience in the field of business analysis to realise that the success of a project and the pursuit of effective solutions will typically depend on a

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Netmind

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Recently, I held a workshop at the Agile Trends Festival for participants to experience the design thinking process and experiment with applying it at the organizational level. The design thinking workshop was built around a generic problem that the attendees themselves were experiencing: finding a work-life balance. .

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BA Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I was recently planning the logistics of an upcoming client workshop. I needed 12 copies of a document printed and spiral bound, and I visited the website of a printing company that we’ve used many times before for such tasks. The website had changed, and unfortunately I couldn’t complete the order.

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The BA Doc

JANUARY 7, 2020

Have you ever facilitated or participated in a workshop that just didn’t go so well or didn’t seem to accomplish much? If so, chances are there was a lack of preparation, the goals weren’t clear, or the participants were.

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The BA Doc

JANUARY 7, 2020

Have you ever facilitated or participated in a workshop that just didn’t go so well or didn’t seem to accomplish much? If so, chances are there was a lack of preparation, the goals weren’t clear, or the participants were.

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Netmind

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Recently, I held a workshop at the Agile Trends Festival for participants to experience the design thinking process and experiment with applying it at the organizational level. The workshop was built around a generic problem that the attendees themselves were experiencing: finding a work-life balance. . What is Design Thinking? .

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Agile Velocity

MARCH 30, 2020

As a person who has a high preference for in-person workshops, transitioning to a 100% virtual delivery and facilitation has been an experience to say the least. However, there are a few things I learned in the last few weeks that helped make our workshops more fun and engaging. I like a 10-min break. Have a co-pilot. Things go wrong.

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Leading Agile

JULY 30, 2018

If you conduct hands-on technical training classes or workshops, you may have experienced some delay at the start of the session in getting all the participants configured and connected so they can start working. We might ask the host to configure internal servers with the resources needed for the workshop.

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Thinslices

MAY 26, 2020

Discovery workshops are a great way to establish the parameters of a new collaboration. With the shift towards remote work for most of the tech industry, we recently had our first remote discovery workshop. We’ve been doing them since 2017, on-premise, with the focused goal of understanding a potential client’s needs.

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Perceptual Edge

JULY 8, 2019

For the first time since I retired from teaching data visualization workshops in 2018, Nick Desbarats of Practical Reporting Inc. The workshop will take place in Portland, Oregon from October 28-31, 2019. will be teaching my courses publicly in the United States. I’m particularly thrilled about Nick’s first U.S.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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BA Times

AUGUST 10, 2023

For me, I’ll often start with interviews and workshops, using document analysis to gain context […] The post Avoid The “Saying/Doing” Gap appeared first on Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs. Elicitation is a core part of business analysis, and there are a vast array of elicitation techniques at a BA’s disposal.

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InfoQ Articles

JANUARY 19, 2021

In the book Kanban Compass, Justyna Pindel shares her experiences from applying training from the back of the room and systems thinking in her Kanban workshops. She adapted her training approach by connecting with attendees and providing them suitable exercises to maximize learning opportunities. By Ben Linders, Justyna Pindel.

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Business Analyst Mentor

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I’ve been running a series of requirement gathering workshops recently which reminded me about the tools for business analyst workshop, the ‘physical stuff’ you need to have in place to.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 11, 2022

A few examples: document analysis, questionnaires, prototyping, workshops and brainstorming. Example: Workshop Design Imagine your manager asks you to run a workshop to understand issues with the company’s refund process. They’ll be interviewing people, understanding the history of events, looking at documents.

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Business Bullet

JUNE 14, 2020

Helen Winter speaking at the European Business Analysis conference 2019 in London on how to make workshops more engaging and interesting using design thinking techniques. . The post Making Workshops More Engaging and Interesting Using Design Thinking - H Winter, BA Conf Europe 19 first appeared on Business Bullet.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 28, 2022

It’s hard enough to come up with the right requirements through discussions, workshops, and prototypes. Continue reading on Analyst’s corner ».

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

Throughout the workshops, you first define the idea, design and build it, and finally validate it closely with users. First of all, a BA professional may use their facilitation skills to facilitate the entire workshop. A well-known way to explore ideas in an early phase of design is by conducting Design Sprints.

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BA Times

APRIL 27, 2023

Asking questions during interviews or as part of a structured requirements workshop is commonplace. However, the most important question is one you should be asking yourself: Am I asking the RIGHT questions? Here are a few of my favorite elicitation questions and what they might reveal about your project.

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BA Times

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Whether it’s one-on-one interviews, workshops, observation or one of the many other techniques, elicitation is a key source of information. Elicitation is a key business analysis skill. As BAs, it’s easy to think that we are highly attuned listeners, carefully scouring the airwaves for tasty morsels of relevant information.

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Juice Analytics

APRIL 4, 2018

These were the words that kicked off the 2018 Data Monetization Workshop to a roomful of attendees and industry experts who had gathered to discuss the question that followed this observation: what does Data Monetization actually mean ? “Data Monetization is a hot topic because it has two words that everyone loves.

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BA Times

JULY 21, 2022

Over a decade ago, I was in a workshop with a range of different stakeholders. Everything seemed to be going well, and people seemed to be agreeing and we were even running ahead of the meeting schedule. Around halfway through the meeting a particular issue was being discussed, a conclusion was going to be drawn and […].

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BA Times

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ll often be coordinating with stakeholders, running workshops, or presenting documentation to teams. You might already know the technical skills you’ll need to be a great Business Analyst (BA) but do you know the essential soft skills? The role of a BA is deeply rooted in working with people. To be a successful BA you’ll […].

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Simplilearn

JUNE 25, 2023

These immersive workshops provide a focused learning environment where individuals can refine their abilities, explore advanced concepts, and conne. Read More.

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Thinslices

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Last week, we held a workshop in Berlin , one of Europe’s most important tech hubs, at Design Offices Berlin Am Zirkus, whom we’d like to thank for hosting us and for providing everything we needed.

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Passionate BA

JULY 3, 2023

Plans for discovery workshops. Reading this article led me to a few valuable insights, so I suggest that you at least look through it as well Workshops and Meetings — The Ultimate Guide to Becoming an Expert Facilitator by Obi Nwokedi Communication is a crucial component in business analysis. Essential artifacts for business analysts.

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BA Careers

MARCH 5, 2024

These collaborative workshops bring together key individuals involved in a project to streamline the requirements gathering … Continue reading "JAD Session : Unleashing the Power of Joint Application Design" The post JAD Session : Unleashing the Power of Joint Application Design appeared first on BACareers, The Business Analyst Blog.

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