by iagadmin | January 14, 2010 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

As a facilitator of Requirements Discovery Sessions, one of your primary skills is questioning. Here are the fifteen types of questions you should be using when you are facilitating a requirements discovery session on your projects. Type Explanati...

by iagadmin | August 5, 2013 | Business Analysis, Most Popular | 0 Comments

How well is the Business Analyst’s role defined in your organization? The Organization Needs a BA Role At a recent Business Analyst World conference in Toronto, it was not a surprise to hear many of the speakers lamenting about projects that continue to roll in late...

by iagadmin | March 14, 2011 | Business Analysis, Business Architecture, Most Popular, PPM, RDM | 0 Comments

I wonder if organizations give out awards for surviving the most reorganizations in a single decade to particular business functions. I'm thinking that most analysts get to experience this frequently as the pendulum of organizational design swings...

by iagadmin | July 3, 2013 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, PPM | 3 Comments

As the Enterprise Business Architecture Practice Lead at IAG, I attended the recent Business Analyst World event this June with extreme interest. The Business Analysis industry continues to grow – with more companies hiring, and more employees getting trained and...

by iagadmin | September 15, 2014 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

This past week, The Project Management Institute released results of a study on one of our favorite topics – the importance of requirements.   PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® In-Depth Report on Requirements Management will hopefully serve as a wakeup call and provide...

by iagadmin | October 11, 2012 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

Small application development projects are lighter and usually don't require such extensive process standards, advanced methods, governance, documentation, planning and management that larger IT projects do. But don't make the mistake of skipping ...

by iagadmin | November 14, 2011 | Agile, Most Popular | 0 Comments

The Challenge User stories that should be simple are frequently quite complex, written ambiguously, or have underlying needs that are hidden below the surface. Some should be broken up in to multiple stories. You may not know how best to write a u...