34 Business Analysis Techniques from The IIBA
Business Rules Galore! Chapter Nine of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®), Second Edition provides a concluding overview of thirty-four techinques used throughout business analysis and...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #3 – Brainstorming
Why couldn't I have invented this and got the patent $ The whiteboard. The dry eraser. The multi-color pens. The overbearing meeting participant. Those four things often come together when thinking...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #26 – Scenarios and Use Cases
Several years ago I shared a series of articles in the Rational Edge for IBM that showcased real life applications of use cases and 8 steps to capture your use cases incremental development. Two of...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #31 Surveys and Questionnaires.
Which features are the most critical? Polls, surveys, questionnaires are synonymous terms for the same thing – asking people for their opinion on a topic. Chapter Nine of the Business Analysis Body...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #32 SWOT Analysis
Social Networking - what has the world gone to? SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) is a venerable mainstay of management and MBA curriculum. While it’s typically applied...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #11 – Focus Groups
Focus Groups – the 11th Technique listed in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge employ a skilled facilitator(s) and a small group of Listen to your focus group and learn! prospective or current...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #20 – Problem Tracking
One a hundred problem tracking tools and a personal favorite - BUGZILLA! Problems, issues, bugs, defects, action items, punch list, clean up tables – so many synonymous terms for the same underlying...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #4 – Business Rules Analysis
Business Rules can be fun! Business Rules. Universal definitions or process descriptions that transcend a single use case or process flow. A little bit bigger than a glossary definition (such as...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #5 – Data Dictionary and Glossary
Glossary, Data Dictionaries and Business Rule review doesn't have to be boring! Equally at home with Use Case creation, or the earlier generation’s database analysis, Data Dictionaries and Glossaries...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Technique #2 – Benchmarking
benchmarking reveals the fingerprint of a new system Benchmarking is a valid, powerful and concrete way to compare a new system or process to the current, “as-is” state OR to compare multiple systems...
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