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10 checklists for the Business Analyst

A good checklist can boost your productivity; imagine what 10 checklists can do for you!

I’ll admit it: I love checklists. They allow me to stay productive and organized in my professional life as well as in my personal life. I’m organizing my work following the Getting Things Done principles for a few years now, and lists are now a way for me to perform a continuous brain dump so that I can focus on things that really matter, without losing any important ideas...

3 tips for a better use of tables in requirements presentation

Among other things, a great Business Analyst should be able to clearly represent business requirements so that every stakeholder can understand them and see how they are involved in the solution to their problems. While there are many, many ways to represent requirements, I found out over time that one of the greatest and easiest ways to do it is simply by using tables. Just look around you...

The Busy BA Reading List, August 11th 2014 edition

Clock and office buildings

Too busy to crawl the web for interesting Business Analysis content? Not interested by social networks noise? Twice a month, the Busy BA Reading List brings you the best Business Analysis articles and websites I came across while surfing the Internet. Hey there! It’s vacation time over here, which means more time to read interesting stuff (and less to write new blog posts). It...

Visual requirements are not optional for a BA

Being able to visually represent business requirements (like business processes, data structures or user interfaces) is one of the most important techniques a Business Analyst must learn to master. It is critical to establish solid foundations on which you can work to elicit business and system requirements (among other things). After all, don’t we say that an image’s worth a thousand...

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