Will you make a good business analyst? Is this profession for you? Will you enjoy it? With more people changing careers multiple times, and with major changes in the job markets recently, these are important questions for any profession. If…
Yulia Kosarenko
Yulia Kosarenko lives in Ontario, Canada and practices business analysis in both her professional and personal life.
Modelling Best Practices: Conciseness
Conciseness of a model is just as important as clarity and consistency. A model is a simplified representation of something. By definition, it should only contain what is essential to the idea it is representing. Think of a map –…
Modelling Best Practices: Consistency
Remember the three C’s of modelling? Clarity, Consistency, and Conciseness. After clarity, consistency is the next pillar of modelling. Model is only a simplified representation of something – a process, a concept, a problem, a solution. Consistency is critical to the…
Modelling Best Practices: Clarity
Modelling is a powerful technique for creating a shared understanding of requirements. Modelling is not a dark art. Learning its techniques and best practices is a good investment not only for a business analyst, but for anyone who needs to…
The speedreading walkthrough
Have you ever tried to learn speed reading? Do you remember the experience? I have tried it. I worked very hard but after completing the course, I felt vaguely unsatisfied. When I completed the exercises and practiced my peripheral vision,…
“We only capture system requirements”
What is a requirement? Most definitions describe a requirement as a “condition or capability needed by a user to solve a problem or achieve an objective”. A condition or capability could be anything – a process step, a new template,…
Brave or foolish?
What is brave, and what is foolish? Where do we draw the line between confidence and arrogance, between using the last liter of gas and forging ahead on vapors? Of course, it will depend on the context and circumstances, but…