Top Blog Posts for Business Analysts: Week of July 21, 2014

Top Business Analyst Blog PostsLooking for some great reads on business analysis? Here is our latest roundup of BA blog posts from the past few weeks. We hope you find them helpful!

  1. The Value of Business Analysis: Creating Shared Vision – Aaron Whittenberger discusses the importance of business analysts being able to create a shared vision and how to do so in this blog post for the BATimes.
  2. Agile Practices for Increasing Requirements Quality – Ben Linders talks about two factors that influence the quality of requirements.
  3. Agile Estimating: What’s the Point(s)? – In this post, Jamie Clouting discusses estimating and why you should estimate as a team.

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Business Analyst Comic: “What Does a BA Do?”

We’re back with a new comic for Business Analysts! We hope you enjoy it!

Episode 2: “What Does a BA Do?”

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Top Blog Posts for Business Analysts: Week of July 7, 2014

Top Blog Posts for Business AnalystsLooking for some great reads on business analysis? Here is our latest roundup of BA blog posts from the past few weeks. We hope you find them helpful!

  1. Should the Product Owner Test Everything? – Jeffrey Davidson shares his answer to this question in his latest blog post.
  2. The “Obviousness” Danger That Kills Projects – Adrian Reed reveals how important it is to understand that something might be “obvious” to one person, but it’s probably not so “obvious” to another.
  3. Prepare and Be Personable – Kupe Kupersmith discusses how to be a better business analyst in this blog post.

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Top Blog Posts for Business Analysts: Week of June 30, 2014

Top Business Analyst Blog PostsLooking for some great reads on business analysis? Here is our latest roundup of BA blog posts from the past week. We hope you find them helpful!

  1. Communication Practices that Lead to Senior Level BA Positions – Teresa Bennett explains the importance of communication and best practices that lead you to that senior level BA position.
  2. The Intersection of Analysis and Agile – Some Examples – Kent McDonald talks about three examples that prove the continued interaction between business analysis and agile communities.
  3. Getting the “User” out of User Stories – Robert Galen talks about user stories and how to make them more usable and customer-centric.

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Top Blog Posts for Business Analysts: Week of June 23, 2014

Business Analyst blog posts of the weekLooking for some great reads on business analysis? Here is our latest roundup of BA blog posts from the past week. We hope you find them helpful!

  1. The Role of Business Analysts in UAT Sessions – Are you involved in User Acceptance Testing? Stephanie Famuyide gives you 6 reasons for why you should be involved in it.
  2. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Business Analysts – Wondering what makes an effective business analyst? Angela Wick takes you through 7 important habits.
  3. 4 Data Modeling Techniques – Laura Brandenburg walks you through 4 different data modeling techniques and when and how to use each technique.

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