Quick Tips
Best Practices From our Experts
Let’s face it, business analysis is hard. While there is a lot of advice available to help in your analysis work, it can be hard to sort through it all to find the take aways that will help you most. Our business analysis quick tips can help.
We asked our in-house experts and other business analysis practitioners for their best advice on several key business analysis topics. From this crowd-sourcing activity, we developed these business analysis quick tips to share best practices and ideas for improving your performance as a business analyst.
How to Create a High Performing Team Quick Tip
Most of your work life is likely spent in a team environment. As the pace of work continues to quicken, it’s apparent now more than ever that a fluid, high performing team is essential to your success.
How to Improve Your Stakeholder Engagement Quick Tip
You could know all the elicitation analysis techniques in the book, but if you don’t have the right people, engaged at the right time, providing the right input – you won’t get very far. Making an effort to improve stakeholder engagement can significantly impact your effectiveness as a business analyst.
Potential Areas for Process Improvement Quick Tip
Why is process improvement so difficult sometimes? Shouldn’t it be easy to recognize the best way to restructure or reengineer a process? No, it can be challenging to determine the best approach and know how to get started.
Transition to an Agile Mindset Quick Tip
There’s a difference between “doing agile” and “being agile”. Following an approach like DevOps, Scrum or Kanban can help us “do agile”. In order to “be agile” we have to embrace a change in mindset.
How to Improve Remote Facilitation and Collaboration Quick Tip
As co-located teams are becoming more and more of the norm, virtual collaboration can be a challenge. Our experts have compiled a list of some of their recommendations and ideas to help you overcome many of the long-distance hurdles you will encounter in a virtual world.
How to Successfully Prioritize Requirements Quick Tip
Effectively prioritizing requirements is critical in order to make the best use of your stakeholders’ time and organization’s resources. However, there isn’t a one size fits all approach to prioritization.
Potential First Questions to Ask When Starting a Project Quick Tip
Ever been assigned to a project and not sure where to start? Don’t worry, you are not alone. Our experts and other business analysts have been in that position too.
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