business analysis

I met Pinal Patel last year when we worked together in a startup. For three months or so we had some fun with our first experience of Agile methods and a wide variety of working hours. Since then, we have gone our separate ways but have kept in touch. Pinal was originally a developer but [...]

I have recently been in discussion with Adriana Beal, an experienced business analyst, based in New York. She has contributed a stimulating and important article to the IIBA blog on ComputerWorldUK hosted by yours truly. I asked Adriana if she would be able to provide a similar article to help BA’s (or wannabe BA’s) to [...]

The last couple of months have been interesting for me on various fronts:

My ‘trial’ mentoring programme with Ify (see Ify’s blog) has continued. It’s not been as rapid as I or probably he would like. However, our expectations were perhaps a little unrealistic based on spending no more than a couple of hours mentoring per [...]

I have written a post on this subject here and will report back on this meeting if you are unable to attend.
 
Details of the next IIBA meeting are below:
Event: IIBA UK Chapter Event - June 2009
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009  Registration 6.00pm Start at 6.30pm
Location: Balls Brothers Minster Pavement, Minster Court, Mincing Lane, London EC3R 7PP
 

Prioritising Requirements
Jake Markham from Credit [...]

This article starts with a definition of what offshoring means. It continues with an exploration of the arguments for and against.
The second part of this article will define the circumstances when offshoring is a good idea and when it is a bad idea.
This article was conceived as a result of a fascinating and impassioned debate [...]

I’ve recently been involved in a debate on LinkedIn on offshoring business analysis (under the ModernAnalyst group Discussions).
Someone asked what seemed an innocent question but it raised a storm of responses - LinkedIn members only
It seemed to encourage a lot of interseting debate which boiled down to the fact that the best quality form of [...]

The 2.0 version of BABOK is due to be released by the end of the month and the senior leadership team have posted aslideshow on their blog.
It can be found here - http://blog.theiiba.org/2009/03/babok-overview.html
Immediate thoughts are that I like the fact they’ve consolidated 77 activities into 32. It was starting to look unwieldy and I find [...]

In this article, I shall describe what is meant by business object modeling, where it comes from, the benefits of this approach, some basic principles and when it should be used. 
Business object modeling describes a static representation of the business domain under consideration in a project. It is static as it shows the important entities, [...]

This site is intended to serve business analysts and this article will provide you with the helicopter view (i.e. very high level view) of business analysis, covering all the key areas very rapidly. You can then choose which areas you want to explore further.

If you want to know which articles already exist, just look at [...]

Requirements engineering is a term that covers a variety of methods and approaches which share the objective of improving the quality and delivery of requirements.
It includes:
requirements gathering
the initial identification and documentation of requirements
 
requirements management
tracing the requirements through to the completion of an IT development to verify their delivery.
This article is an introduction to requirements [...]