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Requirements: how to add depth to your UX practice using business analysis

In this post, you’ll learn more about: How Business Analysts traditionally see requirements; How UX experts also play with requirements, even if they don’t know it; What is the full requirements spectrum (hint: it’s not only about the system); How you can add depth to your UX practice using requirements A few weeks ago, one of my colleagues was quickly explaining the role of the UX team on a new...

Prioritizing elicitation with knowledge boards

I’m a big fan of lists & personal productivity approaches to optimize the way I work. When I came across this article about knowledge boards from the Nielsen Norman Group (NNG), I couldn’t resist to share it with my readers! As Business Analysts & UX experts, we have to manage a lot of knowledge through our various projects. In order to be more efficient, NNG suggests that we...

Are Business Analysts UX experts in disguise?

Lion hidden in brown grass

A few months ago, I was given the opportunity to start working as a Business Analyst in the User Experience (UX) team of the digital lab of the most important Canadian insurance company. One of my first challenges was to understand what I could bring to researchers, designers, strategists and other UX experts in the team – special thanks to my boss who saw it before hiring me 🙂 ! The first...

Business Analysis Kitchen: recipes for perfect requirements

A few weeks ago, I came across a post from Adrian M. on ModernAnalyst.com describing an interesting solution to a common BA problem: when do you know that you captured all requirements? In a nutshell, his technique, aka the Popcorn Way (kudos for the name!), states that you should end requirements gathering activities when the time between requirements discoveries reaches a specific threshold...

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...

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