Andrew Barker

Thoughts and Tools for successful (IT) projects

10 Business Analysis Skills for this year

12 years and 2 months ago
By Drew

Nice list of meta skills to consider.

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Stop Gathering Requirements

12 years and 4 months ago
By Drew

...where do requirements come from? They are analyzed into existence. Requirements are defined or created by the business analyst. The business analyst's job is to define the solution to a business problem. The requirements document is the representation of the complete and accurate statement of what must be done to solve the business problem. Requirements are a business analyst's job, not to gather, but to create.

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Elicitation in a New Domain

12 years and 5 months ago
By Drew

This is likely to be useful for me in the near future.

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Mind the Gap – The Capability Gap

12 years and 5 months ago
By Drew

I really like the material at Bridging the Gap. Very good BA content there.

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How To Run A Creative Design Process For A Big Project

12 years and 5 months ago
By Drew

Although written by a Drupal consultant, this is a great structure for any IT project.

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How to Rock a Systems Design Interview

12 years and 5 months ago
By Drew

On its face this article is about how to interview for a development job. But as a BA, this offers nice guidelines for many projects I have worked on.

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BA Articles collection at Requirements Management .net

12 years and 6 months ago
By Drew

Nice range of articles for the Business Analyst here -  Articles | Requirements Management

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