It’s a new year and for many of us it’s also performance review season. So here are four things that you may not have thought about to include in your performance review, but could help to prove your value and dedication.
Category Archives: Being a Real World BA
Fresh Starts and Endless Possibilities
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a safe, fun, and rejuvenating holiday season! As you’ve noticed, I took a couple weeks off from blogging, and only occasionally posted to Facebook or Twitter. As much as I missed the opportunity to connect with you, it was a fantastic break that allowed me to take a step back and gear up for an exciting new year.
End of Year Wrap Up
As the end of the year is upon us, it’s time to look back on all our accomplishments in 2010, and look forward to all the possibility that 2011 holds. Here at Real World BA, it’s been an amazing time starting to get to know so many of you in the BA community and I…
Stakeholder or Steakholder?
This week I wrapped up my 7-part series on Engaging Project Stakeholders. In the course of writing that series, I consistently spelled “stakeholders” incorrectly (thank goodness for spell check) and shared a tweet about it:
Engaging Project Stakeholders (Part 7) – Keeping the Engagement Going
Throughout this series I’ve talked about why it matters to engage your stakeholders, how to identify your stakeholders, kicking off the project and requirements phase effectively, and developing a requirements work plan (including addressing change management). In this final post of the series, I share a few tips for keeping this engagement going throughout the rest of your project.
Is It Better to Be a BA Generalist or Specialist?
Today’s post is more of a question to get some discussion going around the question “Is it better to be a BA Generalist or Specialist?” Throughout my business analyst career I have seen BA’s of both varieties, and wanted to open up the discussion to hear what you think.
Engaging Project Stakeholders (Part 6) – Change Management
Change Management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and deciding on modifications to your clients’ needs as they have been documented in your Requirements and/or Specification documents. Clearly defining the change management process in advance will help to keep your stakeholders engaged.
Weekly Wrap Up: Incident Tickets, Stepping Up, FAQs, Compliments, Kids & Clouds
Weekly Wrap Up: Incident Tickets, Stepping Up, FAQs, Compliments, Kids & Clouds
Engaging Project Stakeholders (Part 5) – Requirements Work Plan
Preparing the Requirements Work Plan gives you a chance to take a step back, analyze the scope of work, and determine the best techniques and approach to facilitating the requirements work.
7 Lessons a BA Can Learn From Playing Diner Dash
I love playing games of all kinds, but I particularly like Diner Dash® (and the entire genre of similar games) for a lot of reasons. What I didn’t think about was that the skills I was honing while playing hours of this game actually would benefit me as a Business Analyst.