Solution Completeness
We all know it’s easy to get excited about a solution, but excitement can’t be the reason for accepting a project. There are a lot of other factors that must be considered when working on development projects. This job aid is from our Business Process Analysis course and can be used as a quick reminder of […]
Excellent Requirements
Your unique responsibility as a BA is to write and communicate excellent requirements. Requirement consumers depend on the requirements in order to effectively design and construct solution components. Excellent requirements leave no room for interpretation, create or cause no confusion and omit no critical detail. They ensure that the consumer of the requirement can understand […]
Business Process Definition Interview
There are certain pieces of information a business analyst should understand about each process under analysis. This job aid provides an informal checklist of questions you can use to make certain you have covered the major points. The answers will help you ensure that your process models, detailed process documentation, problem assessments and potential solutions […]
Agile Business Analyst
Every agile team needs to have a serious conversation about what’s just enough and just in time documentation and what skills and resources are available on the team to do it. Bottom line, we still need good business analysis and good documentation for our organizations, maybe even more so in this fast-paced ‘agile’ world! Don’t […]
Ask the Right Questions
You’ve just been handed a project; where do you start? What questions do you ask? We compiled a list of critical questions to ask your stakeholders that will help you get started in your analysis efforts. By using this checklist, you will not only uncover initial project information, but also find where you have gaps and […]
The 4 “R”s of Progressive Elaboration
Does your team also have a “Definition of Ready” that defines when a story is ready for development? To get from idea to “ready”, a story is described in successively greater levels of detail. Our handy checklist will help you make sure your story is really ready for development.