How should a business analyst stay engaged throughout the solution lifecycle to ensure stakeholder satisfaction with the implemented solution.
Category: Business Analyst Mindset
BA Mindset Principle #9: Accept and Embrace Business Change
Business analysts help organizations implement changes. Requirements define what needs to change to achieve a desired future state. If organizations did not need to change and transform, business analysts would have very little to do. Why then do we, as business…
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BA Mindset Principle #8: Take Responsibility for Shared Understanding of Business Requirements
How to achieve the most important outcome of business analysis - a shared understanding of requirements by all stakeholders.
BA Mindset Principle #7: Simplify Until Nothing Can Be Removed
How to apply business analysis techniques to simplify and optimize a process before automating it.
BA Mindset Principle #6: Uncover Gaps – Do Not Cover Them Up
It is a business analyst's responsibility to uncover the gaps and analyze their root causes and impacts.
BA Mindset Principle #5: Analysis Before Synthesis; Information Before Requirements
Requirements don't come from business - they come from business analysis. Gather information, analyze it, and then synthesize requirements.
BA Mindsdet Principle #4: Lead and Facilitate
Business analyst's hat stand During my career as a business analyst, I had to take on a variety of leadership roles, sometimes quite unexpectedly. I would find myself in situations where there was collective hesitation about the next steps, confusion…