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I remember the first time I was introduced to personas and the process of creating them. My initial thoughts were what are personas, where do they fit into my project?...
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Requirements represent features, functionality or improvements a business wants.

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What is Business Analysis?  That’s the question I first asked myself when asked to carry out the Business Analysis tasks on an operational change project.  The company I worked for...
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Here we look at the key competencies for consideration when Business Analysts step into a Business Architecture role and provide two sample case studies from the extended Be Positive team.

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Good requirements must be Specific; they must say exactly what is needed by the business.  Requirements must be written in such a way as to be clear and unambiguous to all readers.  Explicit requirements require fewer review cycles to achieve approval.

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Whether it be individual Business Analyst looking to improve their skills and boost your career, or a Head of Business Analysis aiming to develop their team and bring in a consistent approach to your business analysts.  Both would tell us they face the same problems.

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Once the Business Analyst (BA) has elicited and analysed, changed, put them through the cycle again and stabilised the business requirements, they must be reviewed and signed off by the…

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Successful Business Analysis Workshops - Post Workshop In the Planning and Facilitating parts of our workshop series we shared top tips for planning and conducting a successful workshop.  In our final...
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Successful Business Analysis workshops - Facilitation You’ve spent time carefully preparing and planning for your requirements workshop and the day of the workshop has arrived.  Now we need to focus on...
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Many Business Analysts find facilitated workshops particularly useful during the requirements elicitation and analysis phase of a project. 

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