Your resume is a key tool in your job search. If it is not good enough, it will badly hurt your chances of landing a job you are looking for. This new video on Why Change channel reviews the typical…
Yulia Kosarenko
Yulia Kosarenko lives in Ontario, Canada and practices business analysis in both her professional and personal life.
How to create a conceptual data model
A conceptual data model is a structured business view of the data required to support business processes, record business events, and track related performance measures. The main elements of the conceptual model are: Entity: is a person, organization, object, or…
Celebrating Business Analysis Professionals
November 1st is the Global Business Analyst day. Let’s take a minute to recognize business analysis professionals. By that, I don't just mean those who have a business analysis title. Business analysis involves investigating and understanding business problems and finding…
Ask WHAT, not HOW
How we see a subject depends on our perspective. Inevitably, our own experience takes precedence when we discuss any activity that we’ve personally engaged in. My experience of roller blading, travelling to Iceland, or bringing up children, may be nothing…
Data Analysis in Business Analysis
After several webinars, articles and polls on business analysis techniques, I’ve collected many responses from fellow BA’s about their favourites. I like to share information visually – and this time a word cloud seemed appropriate: Business analysis techniques word cloud…
The Vital Role of Opposition
Photo by Sid Balachandran on Unsplash The goal of business analysis is to define requirements for a solution to a business problem, and to achieve a shared understanding of the requirements by all stakeholders. In this blog, we have talked…
Requirements Don’t Come From Business
In my webinars and coaching sessions, I often ask: “Where do the requirements come from?” Almost invariably, the answer is: “Requirements come from business”. Do they, though? When you interview business stakeholders, are they ready to dictate to you what…